Volume 15, Number 2, 2023 


Research Articles


RESEARCH ARTICLE OPEN ACCESS
Intertextuality in Young Adult Literature: A Study of Girl Online by Zoe Sugg
Oleksandra Nikolova, Yana Kravchenko & Roman Vasylyna
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n2.30 | First published: July 31, 2023
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Terroristic Torture in George Orwell’s 1984 and Abdul-Sattar Nasir’s Eggplant Peels
Bushra Juhi Jani
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n2.29 | First published: July 31, 2023
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The Motives and Behavior of Malaysian Chinese Using China’s Social Media
Haoyuan Yu & Farideh Alizadeh
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n2.28 | First published: July 31, 2023
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Vietnamese Teachers’ Beliefs about Fostering Learner Autonomy in English Teaching and Learning
Duyen. N. T. Ngo & Vy. T. M. Luu
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n2.27 | First published: July 29, 2023
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Reminiscences of Kothas: Exploring Spatial Intimacies in Ruth Vanita’s Memory of Light
Ankita Chatterjee & Sutanuka Banerjee
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n2.26 | First published: July 29, 2023
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Narrative Perspective and Imagined Space: Understanding Japanese-American Experience in Hawaii through Murayama’s Fiction
Kristiawan Indriyanto, Esra Perangin-angin & Tan Michael Chandra
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n2.25 | First published: July 29, 2023
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A Study of the Mediating Effect of Work Stress on Work-life Conflict and Turnover Intention in the Private Higher Education Sector in India
Soni Rathi & Praveen Kumar
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n2.24 | First published: July 29, 2023
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Of Maternal Uncles and Mangalik Brides: Sakuni in the Folk Narrations of The Mahabharata
Seema Sinha, Kumar Sankar Bhattacharya & Sailaja Nandigama
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n2.23 | First published: July 29, 2023
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Echo Construction and Ad hoc Categories: Semantics of Group Reference in Magahi
Chandan Kumar
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n2.22 | First published: July 27, 2023
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Exploring the Role of Testimonio Method in Shaping Collective Memory of Indenture History: From Empathy to Empowerment
Shreya Katyayani
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n2.21 | First published: July 27, 2023
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“You’ve Got to Know How to Speak Animalese”: Literary Explorations of Engagements with the Animal Other
Jessica Murray
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n2.20 | First published: July 27, 2023
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Effectiveness of the Reading Strategies Used by Engineering Students at the Undergraduate Level
K. R. Surendran & Janaki Bojiah
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n2.18 | First published: July 22, 2023
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Reflection of Saudi Women’s Participation and Leadership: A Study on the Gender Differences in Leadership and Structural Barriers
Musrrat Parveen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n2.16 | First published: July 18, 2023
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Logic as a Tool for Developing Critical Thinking
Lukas Vartiak, Galina Jaseckova, Milan Konvit
 DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n2.15 | First published: June 30, 2023
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Retrieval of Identity Layers in Persian Illustrated Lithographed Manuscripts with Religious Themes of the Qajar Era
Mahmonir Shirazi & Maryam Hoseini
 DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n2.14 | First published: June 30, 2023
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The Dialectics of the Performance of the Kecak Ramayana in Uluwatu, Bali, Indonesia
Robby Hidajat, Utami Widiati, E.W. Suprihatin D.P, Guntur & Surasak Jamnongsarn
 DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n2.13 | First published: June 24, 2023
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Ballet in Virtual Reality: On the Problem of Synthesizing “End-to-End” Technologies and Theatrical Stage Art
Tatiana V. Portnova
 DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n2.12 | First published: June 21, 2023
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Factors Affecting Motivation in Learning Classical Dance: An Empirical Study
Kateryna I. Kukhar & Natalia V. Bilous
 DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n2.10 | First published: June 14, 2023
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Polyartistic Approach in Music Education: A Tool for Teaching and Developing Creative and Critical Thinking
Jin Yaoquan, Huang Ruiping, Zhang Yang, Valerii Marchenko
 DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n2.09 | First published: June 14, 2023
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Precarity in Korean Film Industry: A Cultural Research Perspective
Kyuha Ryoo
 DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n2.08 | First published: June 13, 2023
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Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Empowering Women in the Korean Labor Market after COVID-19
Jihyun Shim and Ju Kong
 DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n2.06 | First published: June 06, 2023
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The Influence of L1 in English Language Acquisition: A Case Study of ESL Learners at King Saud University
Syed Sarwar Hussain
 DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n2.05 | First published: June 06, 2023
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Scientific Discovery and the Scientist’s Gaze: Galileo’s Lunar Science and the Lacanian Theory of Art
Hyun Sohn
 DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n2.04 | First published: June 02, 2023
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Understanding the Urhobo Tonal Structure through Constraint-Based Framework
Don Chukwuemeka Utulu, Emuobonuvie Maria Ajiboye & Irene Eloho Edojaimoni
 DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n2.02 | First published: June 01, 2023
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Acanthus and Mughal Architecture: Western Influence on Wazir Khan Ornamentation
Fatima Zahra & Safrizal Shahir
 DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n2.01 | First published: June 01, 2023
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Reviews


BOOK REVIEW OPEN ACCESS
Book Review: The Collected Works of Jim Morrison: Poetry, Journals, Transcripts, and Lyrics
Dwaipayan Roy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n2.19 | First published: July 22, 2023
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Book Review: Childscape, Mediascape: Children and Media in India
Kanchan Biswas
 DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n2.17 | First published: July 18, 2023
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Scientific Experiment and Aesthetic Experience: A Review of Tabish Khair’s The Body by the Shore (2022)
Ramesh Kumar Mahtha 
 DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n2.11 | First published: June 17, 2023
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FILM REVIEW OPEN ACCESS
Film Review: Who is Encroaching? Narratives of Land Encroachment in Kantara
Kumuda Ch. Panigrahi
 DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n2.07 | First published: June 06, 2023
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Book Review: Victory City by Salman Rushdie
Ajeesh A K
 DOI: https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n2.03 | First published: June 01, 2023
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