http://dspace.ewubd.edu:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/220 2026-04-06T11:48:19Z http://dspace.ewubd.edu:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/230 Post Modernism in kurt Vonnegut's slaughterhouse 5 and cat's cradle #NAME? My major focus in this study is to show how Kurt Vonnegut in his fictions Car’s Cradle and Slaughterhouse Five parodies conventional ways of thinking and transports us to the postmodernism world of hyper-reality where the idea of the original no longer exists. Postmodernism is usually understood as phenomenon origins in Western countries. In it nothing is what it appears to be. The failure of reason is what postmodernism had learned from the world wars. Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five (1969) was perhaps the first novel to embody the sentiments of the culture that emerged after the end of the Second World War. Vonnegut’s war experience left clear marks on his writing and the book Cat’s Cradle (1963) is also no exception. We notice in Vonnegut’s fictions that postmodern literature is subversive and playful. Both books are based on Vonnegut’s own experience in world war two. They are playfully ironic and yet serious. This thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MA in English Language and Literature of East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. 0004-01-01T00:00:00Z http://dspace.ewubd.edu:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/229 Dissertation on Translation Studies Rahman, Mahatabur Born in 1861, Rabindranath was one of the key figures of the Bengal Renaissance. He started writing at an early age, and by the turn of the century had become a household name in Bengal as a poet, a songwriter, a playwright, an essayist, a short story writer and a novelist. In 1913 he was awarded the Nobel Prize. He founded visva Bharati; a university located in Shantiniketan. He was called he” Great Sentinel” of modern India by Mahatma Gandhi, Tagore steered clear of active politics, but is famous for returning the knighthood conferred on him as a gesture of protest against the Tallianawala Bagh massacre in 1919. Tagore was a pioneering literary figure, renowned for his ceaseless innovations in poetry, prose, drama, music and painting which he took up late in life. His work include some sixty collections verse, novels like “ Gora, Choker Bali” and “ the home and the World”, plays like “ Red Oleanders” and “ The Post Office”. Over a hundred short stories, essays on religion, social and literary topic and over 2000 songs, including the national anthems of India and Bangladesh, Are attribute him. Rabindranath Tagore died in 1941, his eminence is India’s greatest modern poet remains unchallenged to this day. This thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MA in English Language and Literature of East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. 0012-01-01T00:00:00Z http://dspace.ewubd.edu:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/228 Teachers' and Lerners' awareness of Psychological disposition towards communicative language teaching (CLT) in Bangladesh Andalib, Alina The topic for this study is teachers’ and learners awareness of and psychological disposition towards communicative language Teaching (CLT) in Bangladesh. Positive and negative attitudes towards a pedagogic approach are an important variable to measure its effectiveness in a particular context. Tn this research paper, I try to argue for the importance of teachers’ and learners’ positives attitude towards an approach to teaching and learning and survey the Bangladeshi learners and teachers’ attitude towards communicative language teaching. The origins of communicative language teaching (CLT) are to be found in the changes in the British language teaching tradition dating from the late 1960s. The work of the council of Europe, the writing of Wilkins, Widowson, Canlin, Christoper Brumfit, Keith Johnson, William Littlewood and other British applied linguistics on the theoretical basis for a communicative or functional approach to language teaching ; the rapid application of these ideas by textbook writers; and the equally aroid application and acceptance of these new principles by British language teaching specialists, curriculum development centers, and even governments gave prominence nationally and internationally to what came to be referred to as the communicative approach, or simply communicative language teaching. Communicative language teaching has been the most widely used approach to English teaching and learning over the last ¾ decades in the world. In Bangladesh also, it is being recommended as an ideal approach. In many contexts, however, this approach does not seem to work as it is now seen from many research works published from many countries of the world. There are many constraints in the teaching-learning situation such as the beliefs and attitudes, teaching materials, classroom and institutional realities. These are not favorable, and hence it fails to produce the expected results many contexts. In Bangladesh, over the last 16 years or so, CLT has been proposed as the best solution to our ELT problems. Teachers are being trained, textbooks are being written to implement it. Seminars and symposiums are being trained, textbooks are being written to implement it. Seminars and symposiums are being held to create a positive attitude for it. But unless there is a positive attitude towards it, its effectiveness will remain a far cry. This study, therefore, tries to share this psychological disposition, the learners’ and teachers’ attitude towards CLT through an empirical survey. The communicative approach in language teaching starts from a theory of language as communication. It has various objectives; the main objective of CLT is to use language as a means of expression. Although, psychological factors such as learners’ attitude and motivations have been given as considerable importance in language teaching and learning research, variables which are largely socio-culture in nature and include such feature as learners’ experience of previous language learning, their beliefs and expectations about the process of what should happen, or what the teachers and learners should do in the class room have not yet been given due recognition in language teaching and learning programs expect from academic discussion and research publications. Research in recent year’s shows that these are of paramount importance for learning and teaching of language. So, this study argues and tries to find out and present teachers’ and learners’ attitude to CLT and their psychological disposition towards this approach. This thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MA in English Language and Literature of East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. 0001-01-01T00:00:00Z