ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#43 | December 30, 2013 | ISSN 0975-3036

Department of English & Other European Languages, Dr. Hari Singh Gour University, Sagar (M.P.) is organising a seminar on “Narratives of Violence in Postmodern Literature” on February 27-28 at Sagar, MP, India.

Theme Statement

All along their evolution and dissolution, various ancient and medieval civilizations– from the Indo Aryan regions of the East to the Middle Eastern to the Greco-Roman to the fuzzy Indigenous Americas on the other side of the Atlantic to the Australian continent and around and farther into the Pacific –have all seen, suffered and perpetrated violence of the most overt and crude forms. Many of these civilizations perished or metamorphosed under attack and threat of violence. Therefore, violence and its various manifestations have been the core issues in philosophical and religious and other cultural discourses ever since the ancient and medieval times, both in the East and the West. (more…)