Monday, July 30, 2012
CFP: The Criterion, Vol. III. Issue. III (Sept. 2012)
Call For Papers
The Criterion: An International Journal in English (ISSN 0976-8165)
(www.the-criterion.com)
Deadline: Issue III (Sept): 15th August
About Us
The Criterion is refereed e-journal and is designed to publish theoretical articles and book reviews on interdisciplinary cross-currents in the humanities and social sciences. The Criterion encourages interpretative criticism and fresh insights into new and established authors and texts and seeks to generate a serious debate on different academic issues.We also encourage literary contributions in the form of original as well as translated poetry and fiction.
An Online Open Access e-Journal
The Criterion provides open access to all its content to support greater global exchange of knowledge. The free access policy, we believe, will benefit both the writer and the reader.
Disclaimer
The opinions expressed in the articles and other contents appearing in the journal are purely those of the respective authors and in no way reflect the opinions of the editors. Authors submitting their work for publication in The Criterion are responsible for getting approval for copyrighted material they use in their articles. The Criterion should not be held responsible for any infringement of copyright laws for the published content.
Peer Review Process
We follow a strict double-blind reviewing of the submitted works, that is we promise to conceal always the identity of both the reviewers and the author from each other. If any submitted article fails to fulfill primary standards, it will be rejected and the author will be communicated the decision promptly. If the editors are satisfied, they will select two or more reviewers for detailed consideration of the articles. The editors may advise the author to revise the article for publication.
The Criterion is a refereed and registered journal. Editorial Advisory Board’s decision on a typescript will be conveyed within two months from the date of receipt.
We accept only electronic submissions via e-mail as attached documents (Microsoft word only) which must include Name and country in the body of your submission. Authors are requested to provide their full Bio-data and should not forget to provide information regarding contact details with their e-mail address in the same attachment (do not send more that one attachment).
Format of the articles:
Authors are requested to follow the MLA style strictly while preparing the articles. Authors are also requested to include the following in the format of their articles:
1. Full Title with subtitle, if any. Times New Roman, 14, Bold, (Not all capital letters)
2. An abstract of the article of about 100-150 words.
3. Authors should note that the main body of the text should be prepared in such a way that no formatting is needed afterwards. Heading, sub headings and illustrations should be well incorporated within the main body of the article. Times New Roman, 12, Justified
4. There is no word-limit for articles. But ideally those should be around 5000 words, inclusive Works Cited.
5. All portions of the articles should be single-line spaced.
6. Author should be careful regarding grammatical and typological errors.
7. All essays submitted must be in English for review. Quotations in languages other than English must be accompanied by translations.
Simultaneous submissions are permitted provided the authors inform the editor as soon as the content is accepted elsewhere.
Fiction and Poetry
Our mission is to publish the finest fiction (up to 10,000 words), with special attention to character-driven stories that examine the depths and heights of emotion and motivation from a broad variety of cultural and social perspectives. We are also interested in more experimental narratives as well as well-written flash fiction (1,500 words or less). Surprise us with your writing. There are no restrictions on subjects and themes. For poetry, we aim to publish challenging and engaging works by both established and emerging poets.
Please note:
-Fiction: Submit one piece at one time.
-Poetry: Submit up to three poems at one time.
-Copy and paste your fiction or poetry in the body of an email.
-Include a short third-person biographical note in your submission.
-Only previously unpublished works are considered.
-We accept simultaneous submissions but please let us know if your piece has been accepted for publication elsewhere.
-Response time: Two months. only accepted submissions.
-Poetry: Submit up to three poems at one time.
-Copy and paste your fiction or poetry in the body of an email.
-Include a short third-person biographical note in your submission.
-Only previously unpublished works are considered.
-We accept simultaneous submissions but please let us know if your piece has been accepted for publication elsewhere.
-Response time: Two months. only accepted submissions.
Copyright:
We allow our authors flexible rights to republish and reproduce and distribute their published contents with third parties anywhere in any format on the following conditions:
1. The authors will inform the Editor-in-Chief about the intended republication or reproduction by third parties by sending a signed letter.
2. The authors will acknowledge credits to The Criterion as the first publisher and include the URL (the original link location) in their works.
Deadlines for submission:
Issue III (Sept): 15th August
Send your contribution/s to
The Criterion Vol. III. Issue. II (June 2012)
Vol. III. Issue II. June 2012
C O N T E N T S
A R T I C L E S:
Nativism, Love and Sorrow in Nissim Ezekiel’s Night of the Scorpion Md. Sahidul Islam [Full Text PDF] The Wretched of India: The Socio-cultural Space for the Untouchables in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things Dr. Safiul Islam [Full Text PDF] Illusion and Reality: A Psychological Exploration of Eugene O’Neill’s A Touch of the Poet andHughie L.D.Easter Raj Densingh [Full Text PDF] Themes of Immigration in the Novels of Rohinton Mistry Mrs. Priyambda Singh Dr. Vikas Jaoolkar [Full Text PDF] Crisis of Classification: An Overview of Julian Barnes’ Mainstream Novels Digambar S.Kulkarni [Full Text PDF] Modern Indian English Poetry and Tradition Manash Pratim Borah [Full Text PDF] Self-consciousness and Self-affirmation: A Study of AlbertCamus’s The Stranger Y.Mercy Famila [Full Text PDF] Re-Inscribing the Mother within Motherhood: A Feminist Reading of Shauna Singh Baldwin’s Short Story Naina Basudhara Roy [Full Text PDF] Importance, Problems, Perspectives and Drawbacks of Translation Studies S. Gokhila & Dr. V. Thiyagarajan [Full Text PDF] Mahesh Dattani’s On a Muggy Night in Mumbai: An Articulation of Gay Identity Crisis Jaspal Singh [Full Text PDF] Deconstructing Race: Gobinism and Miscegenation in Pearl S. Buck Aysha Munira [Full Text PDF] “The Other” In the Life of Pi Sugandha S Singh [Full Text PDF] Textualizing Postcolonial India: Gita Hariharan’s Siege and Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss Dr. Smriti Singh [Full Text PDF] Remembering and Retelling ‘Selves’ In Small Remedies Dr.Kavya.B [Full Text PDF] Postmodernist Problematics in Jerzy Kosinski’s Pinball Irfan Mohammad Malik [Full Text PDF] Modernity in Tradition Represented in African Literature: Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and No Longer at Ease Dr. Julia Devardhi & Dr. Deepika Nelson [Full Text PDF] Caressing the White Body: A Bleak Hope in Ann Petry’s The Narrows Ashaq Hussain Parray [Full Text PDF] God Virus and Quantum Mechanics: An Upheaval to Tom Stoppard’s world in Hapgood Praveen Kumar Anshuman [Full Text PDF] Enslavement to Autonomy in Anita Nair’s Ladies Coupe S.Suganya [Full Text PDF] Linguistic Skills and Communicative Abilities M. S. Wankhede [Full Text PDF] Indirect Irony in Shaw’s Pygmalion and Arms and The Man Dr. Bishnu Prasad Varma [Full Text PDF] Violation of Maxim of Quality in Jane Austen’s Sense And Sensibility Sunayana Chowdhury [Full Text PDF] In the Face of Enemy within the Four Walls: Women in Khaled Hosseini’s a Thousand Splendid Suns Jamsheed Ahmad [Full Text PDF] The Language of Gitanjali: the Paradoxical Matrix Dr Sukriti Ghosal [Full Text PDF] Quest through Memory: The Gunny Sack Itty Sharma [Full Text PDF] Lost in Adaptation: A Study of the Filmic Representations of Agatha Christie’s Detective Fiction Sucharita Sarkar [Full Text PDF] Challenges in Teaching English Language to Engineering Students: Solutions through Computers Uttham Kumar. N [Full Text PDF] Lorraine Hansberry: Giving Voice to the Oppressed Silence Gursimran Kaur [Full Text PDF] Communal Violence: A Reading of Raj Kamal Jha’s Fireproof Akhilesh Kumar Dwivedi [Full Text PDF] Gender Performativity: A study of Mahesh Dattani’s On a Muggy Night in Mumbai and Dance Like a Man Rajasi Ray [Full Text PDF] The Hunger Motif: A Study of Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide P. Prasanna Devi [Full Text PDF] Reframing the Land and the Native Self: Interdisciplinary Observations in Contemporary Postcolonial Texts Dr. K.N. Shoba [Full Text PDF] Antinovels of Diaspora Women Writers between Continents: A Comparative Study Ms.Waheed Shafiah Dr.K.Sandhya [Full Text PDF] African American and Dalit Autobiography Shivaji D. Sargar [Full Text PDF] Francis Deng’s Political Novels and the Claim of One Sudanese Identity Ezzeldin Abdelgadir Ahmed Elmadda [Full Text PDF] Representing Metropolitan Youth Culture: An assessment of Chetan Bhagat’s Five Point Someone and One Night @ the Call Center Jadhav Arvind Tukaram [Full Text PDF] Sex in Lawrence Dilip Kumar Sen [Full Text PDF] Ruth: Harold Pinter’s Voice of Postmodernist Politics Saumya Rajan [Full Text PDF] Reflective Practice through Journal Writing- A Case Study Dr. B. Samrajya Lakshmi [Full Text PDF] Race, Multiculturalism and Immigrant Identity in Bharati Mukherjee’s Desirable Daughters Ashish Kumar Gupta [Full Text PDF] The “Daily Jangle” between a Rich Old Husband and his Fashionable Young Wife Mohammed Sagheer Ahmed Al-fasly & Dr. Rachel Bari [Full Text PDF] Indian Youth and Cricket Mania: Chetan Bhagat’s Three Mistakes of My Life Dr. Kranti Vats, Dr. Shubhra Tripathi & Sapna Tiwari [Full Text PDF] Vijay Tendulkar’s Ghashiram Kotwal: A Denunciation of Fraudulent Politicians, Policemen and Prostitutes A.Anitha Raj [Full Text PDF] Twins’ Estrangement in The God of Small Things Ram Avtar Vats & Rakhi Sharma [Full Text PDF] A Critical Study of Arun Joshi’s The Foreigner Prof. Malshette Yogesh Trimbakrao & Ms. Shete Sonali Shivraj [Full Text PDF] Disability and the Question of Identity Vivek Singh [Full Text PDF] Three Kings (1999): An Orientalist Representation Morsal Shaif Haidarah [Full Text PDF] Hiding in the Light: R. K. Narayan as a Feminist Novelist Rajendra Kumar Dash & Namita Panda [Full Text PDF]F I C T I O N
The Widening Gyre Joanna Hoyt [Full Text PDF] A Rain-Washed Note Ketaki Dutta [Full Text PDF] Rendezvous with Rain Rupanjali Baruah [Full Text PDF] Cinderbella Sangeeta Bhargava [Full Text PDF] Determination Force Stephan Heard [Full Text PDF] P O E T R Y Francis Murillo Emralino, Sandra Colly-Durand, Basudhara Roy, Maitreyee B Chowdhury, Mamta Madhavan, Tarun Agarwal, Gopika Nath, RJ Kalpana, S.Parvathi Devi [Full Text PDF]
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Call For Submissions: The Criterion
Call For Papers
The Criterion: An International Journal in English(www.the-criterion.com)
Deadline Issue II (June): 15th May
About Us
The Criterion is refereed e-journal and is designed to publish theoretical articles and book reviews on interdisciplinary cross-currents in the humanities and social sciences. The Criterion encourages interpretative criticism and fresh insights into new and established authors and texts and seeks to generate a serious debate on different academic issues.We also encourage literary contributions in the form of original as well as translated poetry and fiction.
An Online Open Access e-Journal
The Criterion provides open access to all its content to support greater global exchange of knowledge. The free access policy, we believe, will benefit both the writer and the reader.
Disclaimer
The opinions expressed in the articles and other contents appearing in the journal are purely those of the respective authors and in no way reflect the opinions of the editors. Authors submitting their work for publication in The Criterion are responsible for getting approval for copyrighted material they use in their articles. The Criterion should not be held responsible for any infringement of copyright laws for the published content.
Peer Review Process
We follow a strict double-blind reviewing of the submitted works, that is we promise to conceal always the identity of both the reviewers and the author from each other. If any submitted article fails to fulfill primary standards, it will be rejected and the author will be communicated the decision promptly. If the editors are satisfied, they will select two or more reviewers for detailed consideration of the articles. The editors may advise the author to revise the article for publication.
The Criterion is a refereed and registered journal. Editorial Advisory Board’s decision on a typescript will be conveyed within two months from the date of receipt.
We accept only electronic submissions via e-mail as attached documents (Microsoft word only) which must include Name and country in the body of your submission. Authors are requested to provide their full Bio-data and should not forget to provide information regarding contact details with their e-mail address in the same attachment (do not send more that one attachment).
Format of the articles:
Authors are requested to follow the MLA style strictly while preparing the articles. Authors are also requested to include the following in the format of their articles:
1. Full Title with subtitle, if any. Times New Roman, 14, Bold, (Not all capital letters)
2. An abstract of the article of about 100-150 words.
3. Authors should note that the main body of the text should be prepared in such a way that no formatting is needed afterwards. Heading, sub headings and illustrations should be well incorporated within the main body of the article. Times New Roman, 12, Justified
4. There is no word-limit for articles. But ideally those should be around 5000 words, inclusive Works Cited.
5. All portions of the articles should be single-line spaced.
6. Author should be careful regarding grammatical and typological errors.
7. All essays submitted must be in English for review. Quotations in languages other than English must be accompanied by translations.
Simultaneous submissions are permitted provided the authors inform the editor as soon as the content is accepted elsewhere.
Fiction and Poetry
Our mission is to publish the finest fiction (up to 10,000 words), with special attention to character-driven stories that examine the depths and heights of emotion and motivation from a broad variety of cultural and social perspectives. We are also interested in more experimental narratives as well as well-written flash fiction (1,500 words or less). Surprise us with your writing. There are no restrictions on subjects and themes. For poetry, we aim to publish challenging and engaging works by both established and emerging poets.
Please note:
-Fiction: Submit one piece at one time.
-Poetry: Submit up to three poems at one time.
-Copy and paste your fiction or poetry in the body of an email.
-Include a short third-person biographical note in your submission.
-Only previously unpublished works are considered.
-We accept simultaneous submissions but please let us know if your piece has been accepted for publication elsewhere.
-Response time: Two months. only accepted submissions.
-Poetry: Submit up to three poems at one time.
-Copy and paste your fiction or poetry in the body of an email.
-Include a short third-person biographical note in your submission.
-Only previously unpublished works are considered.
-We accept simultaneous submissions but please let us know if your piece has been accepted for publication elsewhere.
-Response time: Two months. only accepted submissions.
Copyright:
We allow our authors flexible rights to republish and reproduce and distribute their published contents with third parties anywhere in any format on the following conditions:
1. The authors will inform the Editor-in-Chief about the intended republication or reproduction by third parties by sending a signed letter.
2. The authors will acknowledge credits to The Criterion as the first publisher and include the URL (the original link location) in their works.
Deadlines for submission:
Issue II (June): 15th May
Send your contribution/s to
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