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Object-spatial Approach to Studying Fine Art: Development of Three-dimensional and Spatial Perception among Students

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Lubov Savenkova1 & Natalia Fomina2

1,2 Doctor of Education, Professor, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Education, Institute of Artistic Education and Cultural Studies of the Russian Academy of Education. Corresponding email:  lgbloknot@mail.ru

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DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v9n2.29

Received May 09, 2017; Revised July 28, 2017; Accepted July 30, 2017; Published August 17, 2017.

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The article reveals an object-spatial approach to the process of fine arts studying by children of different ages. The authors justify the pedagogical directions of children’s education, which have been developed and scientifically substantiated in the works of the outstanding psychologist, educator and art historian A.V. Bakushinsky (1883-1939). The authors distinguish the basic directions of the mastery of object-spatial types of activities by students of different ages. It is shown how the ideas of child’s art education, generated in the beginning of the 20th century, are refracted in modern children’s education.

Keywords: art education, pedagogics of art, space and environment, spatial perception, interaction of arts, integrated training, child’s worldview

Vitality and Endangerment of Contemporary Kurukh

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Alisha Vandana Lakra1 & Md. Mojibur Rahman2

1Senior Research Fellow, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad-826004 (Jharkhand) India. ORCID ID 0000-0002-6707-6849

Email: alisha.2013dr0220@hss.ism.ac.in

2Associate Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad-826004 (Jharkhand) India. ORCID ID 0000-0002-8454-0981

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DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v9n2.35

Received May 31, 2017; Revised July 24, 2017; Accepted July 27, 2017; Published August 18, 2017.

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A multilingual society shares some common social and cultural situations affecting the linguistic features of a language. It eventually appears in linguistic performances of the speech community which might lead to its endangerment. The Kurukh language, spoken in and around the district of Ranchi in Jharkhand, India, appears in a multilingual society where it is constantly affected by its neighbouring and dominant languages. The restricted use of the language has led to its endangerment. This paper describes the degree of endangerment of the Kurukh language and also assesses its vitality with reference to the factors proposed by UNESCO. The study investigates the speech performances of the speakers of Kurukh to assess the extent of code-mixing.

Keywords: Endangerment, Kurukh, code-mixing.

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Theorizing Frameworks for English Language Teaching: A Brief Non-Chronological Practice Based Narrative

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Mohd Asjad Husain

Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh (India). ORCID: 0000-0002-1986-6133. Email: hmasjad.rs@amu.ac.in

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DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v9n2.34

Received May 12, 2017; Revised July 07, 2017; Accepted July 15, 2017; Published August 06, 2017.

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The English Language Teaching (ELT) world is abuzz the discussion on how and why the profession of ELT came into existence. However, its developments in the light of pedagogical practices in different times are seldom discussed. Thus, this paper intends to present a non-chronological practice based brief history of ELT which is important to understand how ELT has taken inspirations from different philosophical trends to evolve itself. It traces the effects of theoretical progress of ELT to help professionals formulate informed classroom practices.  It talks about the native centered colonial upbringing of ELT, standardization of ELT through Western means and native favoring pedagogical reforms. The paper divides history of ELT into four periods: (i) the period of whims and traditions, (ii) the period of reforms, (iii) the period of pedagogical awareness and (iv) the period of pedagogical awakening. Also, it conceptualizes frameworks of ELT and presents individual accounts on the history of ELT practices in different periods.

Key words: ELT, history of ELT, ELT frameworks, theories, approaches, practices.

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Cyber Feminism: Unleashing Women Power through Technology

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J. R. Mohanty1 & Swati Samantaray2

1Professor, School of Computer Applications, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar. ORCID: 0000-0002-8762-3037.Email: jnyana1@gmail.com

2Associate Professor, School of Humanities, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar. ORCID: 0000-0002-4823-9278. Email:  swati.sray@gmail.com

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DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v9n2.33

Received May 11, 2017; Revised July 07, 2017; Accepted July 07, 2017; Published August 06, 2017.

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Feminism is an existential struggle to assert one’s individuality—it stands for gender equality, independence and empowerment to women. The concept of feminism examines and analyzes gender identity, by way of targeting women’s autonomous self-identity. If we enter into the world of cyberspace we find technology is opening up the possibility for female emancipation. Over just two decades, the Internet has worked a thorough revolution and is considered to be a great equalizer; yet, access to it is not uniformly shared. This paper explores what Internet along with the cyberspace signifies to women and how they employ the cyberspace for their personal schedule from a socio-anthropological perspective. Cyber feminism is basically involved with countering the recognized and accepted domination of men in the employment and advancement of information and communication technology (ICT) and cyberspace. The image of technology needs to change to incorporate a female view.

Key words: Cyberspace, Cyber feminism, female emancipation, Information and communication Technology.

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Home, Ethnicity and Sexuality in Shyam Selvadurai’s The Hungry Ghosts

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Rajorshi Das

Assistant Professor (ad-hoc), Indraprastha College for Women. Email: dasrajorshi@gmail.com

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DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v9n2.32

Received May 10, 2017; Revised July 23, 2017; Accepted July 25, 2017; Published August 18, 2017.

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This paper explores the ways in which Shyam Selvadurai’s The Hungry Ghosts (2013) conforms to the national underpinnings of the Sri Lankan and by extension South Asian diaspora while simultaneously choosing mourning over rage as a way of living together. In his overt reliance on a mythical structure and Buddhist philosophy, the author betrays the entry of the homonational body as an ideal citizen within the complex geopolitical aspirations of South Asia where family and ethnicity are integral to the formation of self. Race and region therefore reign supreme over questions of desire and companionate bonding.

Keywords: Shyam Selvadurai, The Hungry Ghosts, Queer Diaspora, Sinhalese, Tamil, Sexuality, South Asia, Buddhism

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Cognitive Study of Image Schema and Dying-mind in Tagore’s Near-Death Experience (NDE) Poems

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Mohammad Shalauddin1, Mohammed Shamsul Hoque2 & Touhid Bhuiyan3

1Human Resource Development Institute (HRDI), Daffodil International University (DIU),Bangladesh. Email: salauddin@hrdinstitute.org

2Department of English, Daffodil International University (DIU), Bangladesh.

3Department of Software Engineering (SWE), Daffodil International University (DIU), Bangladesh.

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DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v9n2.31

Received May 31, 2017; Revised July 10, 2017; Accepted July 15, 2017; Published August 18, 2017.

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This study aims at analyzing image schemas (Johnson, 1987) and stages of grief (Kubler-Ross, 1969) in Tagore’s near-death experience (NDE) poems written in the last ninety days before his death. Selected verses of the period in question are analyzed using benchmarks set by Johnson and Kubler-Ross. Relation between the schemas and some linguistic forms, themes and moods of these poems are also analyzed. Findings include Dying-mind is centered to self and influences the type and frequency of all the schemas within it. Similar mental stages of grief—Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression and Acceptance — are also found in the NDE poems. Though death is depicted by Tagore even to the stature of “Shyam” in his earlier poems, it is presented as “A moving screen of varied fears” in the end, which is supported by the theory of Kubler-Ross.

Keywords: Cognitive Linguistics, Image Schema, Kubler-Ross model, NDE poems, Tagore.

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Decoding the Paradox in Garcia Marquez’s One-Sentence-Long Story, “Great Enchanter”

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Kira Andreeva

Tyumen State University, Volodarskogo Street, 6, Tyumen, Russia, 625003. Email: kiralexx2012@yandex.ru

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DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v9n2.20

Received May 12, 2017; Revised July 10, 2017; Accepted July 15, 2017; Published August 11, 2017.

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The present article studies one unique postmodernist experiment of a complete violation of the traditional story construction by the Nobel Prize winner Garcia Marquez. One of his stories: “The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship” is written in the form of one sentence, although, graphically occupying six or seven pages of the text. The genius of the writer let him combine such evident (but actually specially planned) violation of the norm with complete semantic transparency which led to the enthusiastic reception of the story by the press as well as by his readers. The aim of my article is to decode this evident paradox with the help of more traditional and modern cognitive approaches and technologies of text analysis. Thus, we make use of such several well-known and accepted linguistic notions as narrative structure, ekphrasis and others alike with innovations of general cognitive approach. The latter has the power to explain the surprising phenomenon of the readers’ complete embodiment into the picture created by the author (scientifically called “mental ekphrasis”). Different forms of multimodality contribute to the general effect. The whole architecture of the text is supported very elegantly and simply with the help of mainly coordinate conjunctions. The results of our empirical analysis prove our explanation of the evident effect of all these special tools of linguistic text construal expertly chosen by Garcia Marquez.

Keywords: Marquez’s anniversary, one-sentence-long story, norm violation, traditional and cognitive technologies, ekphrasis, notional ekphrasis, narrative structure, multimodality.

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Skeletons in the Closets: Gay Themes in Philippine Fictions in English

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Christopher Yap Wright

National University, Philippines. ORCID: 0000-0002-2230-0798.  Email: christopher.yap.wright@gmail.com

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DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v9n2.30

Received May 11, 2017; Revised July 2, 2017; Accepted July 10, 2017; Published August 17, 2017

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The study aimed to ascertain the portrayal of gay identity in the selected Philippine Anglophone fictions titled “The Chamber of the Sea,” “The Doll,” and “The Husband” through exploring their literary themes. Most importantly, it sought to determine the texts’ presentations of gay-self through Imaging with Fassinger and McCarn’s Model of Gay Individual Identity Development. Further, the predominant themes of denial of the self, eroticism towards others, and tragedy of discriminations were identified and explored as the study examined the Filipino gay protagonists’ significant experiences. The study revealed that the literary gay-self imaging affirmed the homosexual representations in the Philippine Anglophone fictions. Such representations were both seen in ghostly and implicit manners through the gay male characters namely, Tio Teban from “The Chamber of the Sea,” Elpidio from “The Husband,” and Narciso a.k.a Boy/ Sising from “The Doll.” Also, the central characters’ setbacks and unfinished self-issues—the skeletons in their closets, including their struggles with being different as to their physical, emotional, and sexual interests toward their co-species were shown. Despite the differences of the authors, the Filipino gays through their experiences had common familial and societal struggles to survive. This study has clear implications in the understanding of the Filipino gay literary characters in fictions.

Keywords: Filipino Gays, Queer Literature, Gay-Self Imaging, Gay Themes.

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East-West Dialogue in Sophia Gubaidulina’s Work “Tatar Folklore Inspirations”: on the Problem of Artistic Bilingualism

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Nadezda Velerovna Shirieva1, Elena Aleksandrovna Dyganova2

1,2 Kazan Federal University, 18 Kremlyovskaya street, Kazan 420008, Russia Federation. Corresponding email: taha1978@mail.ru

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DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v9n2.28

Received May 15, 2017; Revised July 18, 2017; Accepted July 25, 2017; Published August 16, 2017.

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Sofia Gubaidulina, a living classic of modern music and one of the most popular composers of our time, is in constant search of both new timbres and spiritual truths. Born in Kazan (Russia), at the intersection of Tatar and Russian cultures as well as Islam and Christianity, she was naturally influenced by all of them, which is best reflected in Gubaidulina’s continual interest in the wide range of expression means offered by Oriental music. This phenomenon led to a wide discussion among musicologists on a synthesis of Western and Oriental cultural traditions in Gubaidulina’s music. However, Sofia Gubaidulina’s music based on the pentatonic scale is one of the most poorly studied areas in her artistic legacy. It includes three cycles of pieces “Tatar Folklore Inspirations” for small, alto and bass domra with piano accompaniment analysed in this paper have specific modal and rhythmic features characterising Tatar traditional music. The author’s approach to the problem of correlation of the “own” and the “alien” in the musical text of the triptych as an artistic dialogue between the ethnic and the pan-European is based on the theory of intertextuality, applied to analyse various parameters of intertextual communications in Gubaidulina’s work. This study reveals how the composer identifies herself within different cultures and explains her “play of styles” as a new form of artistic synthesis integrating world art trends with ethnic cultural paradigms.

Keywords: domra, intertextuality, European, pentatonism, polystylistics, synthesis, Tatar music, artistic dialogue, ethnic.

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Nautanki in the time of Independence Struggle: the Tangled History of Sangits and Akharas

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Rittvika Singh

Delhi College of Arts & Commerce, University of Delhi, India. Orcid Id: orcid.org/0000-0002-1725-0634. Email: rittvika.singh@gmail.com

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DOI: 10.21659/rupkatha.v9n2.27

Received May 30, 2017; Revised July14, 2017; Accepted July 20, 2017; Published August 16, 2017.

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Nau?ank? theatre of North India is a popular cultural institution that offers an opportunity to document the history of the un-imagined community. However, the historical accounts of this theatre are either obscure or they present a very limited view of Nautanki. During the decades of India’s struggle for independence, Nau?ank? became a platform for registering protest. While there are well corroborated accounts of the progressive Indian People’s Theatre Association involvement in mobilizing the masses for struggle, there appears a regrettable gap that withholds the process of making informed assumptions while studying Nautanki’s participation. Through the examples drawn from the two different akaharas (schools) of Nau?ank?– Hathras and Kanpur, this paper attempts to highlight the existence of lacunas that mar the historiography of the lesser known, hence exposing the loopholes in the purported idea of writing history from the margins. In the process it also describes the ways in which Nautanki has exhibited the potential of being a vital forum for protest, though its image in the general perception is merely of an obscene medium of entertainment. Apart from discussing the few available records that document Nautanki’s participation, the paper constructs its premise on the interviews and material collected during the field visits in Allahabad and adjoining areas which have supplemented the inferences and observations drawn.

Key words: Nautanki, Alternate Historiography, Popular culture, Independence struggle, Masses.

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