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| contents | <p><span lang="EN-US">This chapter makes a close reading of Niranjan Mohanty’s <em>Prayers to Lord Jagannatha </em>which demonstrates its affinities with Postmodernism. <em>Prayers to Lord Jagannatha</em> is a postmodernist exploration not only for the poet but also for the reader. The text flaunts postmodernist features as it offers multiple possibilities for a fresh assessment of what had been taken for granted,<span> </span>adopts the plurality of approaches revealing its literariness, usability and accessibility, interrogates the nature of truth and reality, shows skepticism, merges myth, legends and contemporary realities into its fabric, adopts a tone of irreverence to the established norms and icons, offers the language games, surprises the reader’s expected resolution, jolts him through difficult words, unravels the mystery of creativity, creates an uncertainty, lacks a central hierarchy as it provides not one but many centres, has centre versus periphery issue and finally, deconstructs <em>Prayers</em>. </span></p> |
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| spellingShingle | A Postmodernist Reading of Niranjan Mohanty's Prayers to Lord Jagannatha Arora, Sudhir K <p><span lang="EN-US">This chapter makes a close reading of Niranjan Mohanty’s <em>Prayers to Lord Jagannatha </em>which demonstrates its affinities with Postmodernism. <em>Prayers to Lord Jagannatha</em> is a postmodernist exploration not only for the poet but also for the reader. The text flaunts postmodernist features as it offers multiple possibilities for a fresh assessment of what had been taken for granted,<span> </span>adopts the plurality of approaches revealing its literariness, usability and accessibility, interrogates the nature of truth and reality, shows skepticism, merges myth, legends and contemporary realities into its fabric, adopts a tone of irreverence to the established norms and icons, offers the language games, surprises the reader’s expected resolution, jolts him through difficult words, unravels the mystery of creativity, creates an uncertainty, lacks a central hierarchy as it provides not one but many centres, has centre versus periphery issue and finally, deconstructs <em>Prayers</em>. </span></p> |
| title | A Postmodernist Reading of Niranjan Mohanty's Prayers to Lord Jagannatha |
| url | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15520138 |