Journal of Literature, Culture and Media Studies

Vivek Sachdeva ¹

Affiliations
1 Dept of English, B.P.S. Mahila Vishwavidhyalaya, Khanpur Kalan, Sonipat, IN

Abstract

The novels and short stories of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala stand in a unique relation to Indian literature in English. A girl born in Germany, brought up in England and married in India to a Parsi architect always remained an outsider and looked at Indian society from the same position. The Punjabi family of her husband’s business partner gave her the opportunity to look into Indian middle class which premised her fiction. She always utilized her vantage point of an outsider among India’s bourgeoisie to her advantage.

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Vivek Sachdeva ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of English, BPS Mahila Vishwavidyalaya, Khanpur Kalan, Sonipat, IN

Abstract

Time and Space are two important elements of narrative and narrativity. Most of the time, we all understand narrative in terms of Time. The first step towards the understanding of narrative is to understand the chronology of events in fabula and their presentation in syuzhet. But Joseph Frank had successfully triggered off a series of questions, a new way of looking at the narratives with his essay ‘Spatial Form in Modern Literature.’ Studies had attempted to show relation between spatial form and language, structure and reader’s perception. Mapping out new implications, it is also shown how spatial form is related with “New Criticism, Formalism, Structuralism, phenomenology, myth criticism and linguistics.” (Smitten 16) Joseph Frank made an attempt to earn spatial form an important place in the tradition of literary criticism. Although Frank applied the concept of spatial form, first of all, to T.S. Eliots’s The Waste Land, he also propounded that the similar principle applies to modern fiction as well.

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