AUW Institutional Repository: Recent submissions
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Literary Fiction from the Perspective of Romance: Don’t Move
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CRITICAL INSIGHTS Life of Pi
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“Such is the Working of the Southern Mind” A Postcolonial Reading of E.M. Forster’sItalian Narratives
(AUW, 2025)This article discusses E.M. Forster’s “Italian narratives”, a literary corpus that reveals the complexity, the ambivalence, and the richness of Britain’s relation to the European South. Forster’s narratives present, ... -
Romance and Metagenre: A Response to Burkhard Niederhoff
(AUW, 2022)This short essay constiutes a reflection on meta-generic strategies and practises employed by authors of romance fiction. Conceived as a response to Burkhard Niederhoff’s article published in Connotations, it aims at ... -
Discursive Intertextuality, Parody, and Mise en Abyme in A.S. Byatt’s Short Stories
(AUW, 2022)This essay analyses three short stories from A.S. Byatt's collection Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice (1998) in light of several self-reflexive strategies. The short narratives Crocodile Tears and Baglady will be ... -
Olive Skin, Chocolate Eyes: The Legacy of The Sheik on Descriptive Patterns of the Italian Romantic Hero in Harlequin Short Contemporaries
(AUW, 2020-12)A dominant descriptive pattern of the Anglo-Italian encounter in modern and contemporary Anglophone fiction has been focusing on representing Italy as a unique constellation of counter-values to Anglo-American culture ... -
“He Looks like He’s Stepped out of a Painting:” The Idealization and Appropriation of Italian Timelessness through the Experience of Romantic Love
(AUW, 2020)This paper investigates two popular historical novels, Marina Fiorato’s The Glassblower of Murano (2008) and Anne Fortier’s Juliet (2010), in order to shed light on a discourse of pure origins and unbroken continuity ... -
Critical Approaches to the Modern and Contemporary Anglophone Romance Novel (From A Room with a View to Fifty Shades of Grey)
(AUW, 2022-06)The seminar ‘Critical Approaches to the Modern and Contemporary Anglophone Romance Novel (From A Room with a View to Fifty Shades of Grey)’ was held at the Department of English of University of Basel in the Winter term ... -
ANGLO-AMERICAN NARRATIVES OF ITALIAN OTHERNESS AND THE POLITICS OF ORIENTALIZING SOUTHERN EUROPE
(AUW, 2016)This essay reflects on Anglo-American literary representations of Italian culture from the perspective of postcolonial theory. Throughout history, many national and cultural entities have defined themselves in relation ... -
Anglophone Popular Narratives of Italian Otherness and the Politics of Orientalizing Southern Europe
(AUW, 2016)This paper sets itself the goal to analyze the ways in which the discourses that have been employed in rationalizing the political and cultural divide between the 1orth and the South of (urope find an outlet in the context ... -
Trading Rationality for Tomatoes: The Consolidation of Anglo-American National Identities in Popular Literary Representations of Italian Culture
(AUW, 2016)In The Rhetoric of Empire (1993), David Spurr analyzes journalistic discourse on the Third World and isolates a nucleus of rhetorical figures around which representations of the colonial and post-colonial other are ... -
The Genetic Essence of Houses and People: History as Idealization and Appropriation of an Imagined Timelessness
(AUW, 2016)Marina Fiorato’s The Glassblower of Murano (2008) tells the story of Eleonora, a young woman who travels to Venice in search of her genealogical past and existential roots. Coming from London, Eleonora incarnates a ... -
Project Proposal Title: Examining the Physical and Mental Health of the Aging Population in the Chittagong Hill Tracts “Khagrachari and Rangamati” – A Cross-Sectional Study.
(AUW, 2025)Background: Bangladesh's older populations, especially in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, are increasing consistently, and with this comes a range of physical and mental health problems. Older individuals among indigenous ... -
Prevalence and determinants of mental health status among the school going children in Chattogram: A school-based Cross-sectional study.
(AUW, 2025)Background: Mental health contributes immensely to the emotional, psychological, and social well-being of school children, which affects their learning achievements and growth. Socioeconomic status, family, school stress, ... -
Prevalence of PCOD and Its Determination Among the Reproductive Age Group in Chattogram, Bangladesh
(AUW, 2025)Background: Polycystic Ovarian Disease (PCOD) is a common hormonal illness that affects reproductive aged women, causing hormonal abnormalities, infertility, metabolic issues, and a lower quality of life. On the other ... -
Prevalence and determinants of depression among university students in Chittagong, Bangladesh: A Cross-sectional Study
(AUW, 2025)Background: Depression remains a critical public health challenge globally, with escalating prevalence among university students in low- and middle-income countries like Bangladesh. In Chittagong, cultural, academic, ... -
Association Between Tobacco Farming and Health Hazards in the Villages of Chakaria
(AUW, 2025)Background: The agricultural practice of tobacco farming succeeds in tropical to subtropical areas to produce items including cigarettes, cigars, and snuff. Tobacco operations have a significant economic impact that ... -
Prevelance and Determinants of Diarrheal Disease Among Under Five Children in Chattgram Urba Slums
(AUW, 2025)Background: A serious worldwide health concern, diarrheal disease kills approximately 443,832 people each year and causes 1.7 billion cases, especially in children under five (World Health Organization, 2024). In ... -
Prevalence and determinants of depression among garments workers in Chittagong, Bangladesh: A cross-sectional study
(AUW, 2025)Background: Depression among garment workers is a growing public health issue in both developed and developing countries. And depression is an overlooked issue among garment workers in Bangladesh. This study aims to ... -
Prevalence and Determinants of an Unhealthy Lifestyle among School-Going Adolescents in Chittagong .
(AUW, 2025)Background: While numerous adolescents engage in detrimental lifestyle choices that may impact their long-term health, this developmental stage is crucial for establishing enduring health practices. In Bangladesh, ...
