Mr. Imran Aslam
Mr. Imran Aslam has been teaching at the Department of English since 2011. He specializes in Modern Drama, Postmodern Fiction, Creative Writing, Mythology, World Literature and Comparative Literature. He has supervised numerous M.Phil and BS Theses in the domain of Literature on diverse topics. He Coordinated Hayatians Literary Society for a period of two years. He is a published writer as well.
- M.Phil,Goverment College University , Lahore
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| Waqar-ul-Hassan | MS | A Historiographic Metafictional Reworking of Oedipus Myth by Kundera in Unbearable Lightness of Being The thesis studies Milan Kundera’s novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being as a reworking of the classical myth of Oedipus in postmodern perspective. The qualitative comparative study has been undertaken in the light of Historiographic Metafiction. Historiographic Metafiction is a concept introduced by Linda Hutcheon in her book A Poetics of Postmodernism: History, Theory, Fiction which helps postmodern writers revisit the past using the techniques like Intertextuality, Parody, Subversion and Pastiche. The text of the novel has been analyzed in line with the constituents of Historiographic Metafiction like Intertextuality, Parody and Subversion and comparison has been drawn between the two works and the past and the present. The technique of Intertextuality helps Kundera incorporate the past into the present whereas parodic subversion allows the writer to challenge the Grand Narratives and revisit the past in postmodern perspective. The traits of characters in the novel impersonate the characteristics of Oedipus. The inter-text of Oedipus helps Kundera develop the plot and theme of his magnum opus. Intertextuality destroys the independent nature of the novel whereas parodic subversion helps the writer maintain subjectivity and self-reflexivity. The authenticity of Czech history has been questioned and different sides of reality have been analyzed through Mini Narratives. The study not only traces the intertextual echoes and utterances but also finds out the themes of the novel set on the basis of the myth of Oedipus. A bridge between the past and the present has been developed by comparing the norms and culture of the Greek Classical State and the Communist Czech. The intermingling of history and fiction in the postmodern perspective has also been analyzed. All in all, the traces of the past, both historical and literary, in the light of Historiographic Metafiction stamp the fact that The Unbearable Lightness of Being is a reworking of the classical myth of Oedipus. | 2018 |
| Roha Rafique | MS | Laughter as an Anti-Foundational Agent: A Postmodernist Study of Laughter in Eco’s The Name of the Rose and Milan Kundera’s The Joke The present study is an attempt to demonstrate the function of laughter as an anti-foundational agent from the postmodernist perspective. Laughter has been recently viewed as a powerful ironical tool in the postmodern world of subversion, playfulness, and parody. The contemporary age is “infected by something of a comic spirit” (Weeks, 2004, p.1). The essence of this “comic spirit” has been explored through the three theories of laughter, the Incongruity Theory by Arthur Schopenhauer, the Anti-Mechanical Theory by Henri Bergson, the Super-Laughter Theory by Friedrich Nietzsche. These theories have been used as a theoretical framework for this study. The two novels, The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco and The Joke by Milan Kundera, have been analyzed to explore the function of laughter as a powerful source of challenge, distortion, and change. The study proves the function of laughter as a forceful agent of breaking religious, political and social foundations. It adds a new perspective on the role of laughter and opens new facades of postmodernity in the traditional theories of laughter as well as in the selected novels. | 2018 |
| Nasir Awan | MS | A Study of Gerontophilia in the Selected Works of Marquez and Saramago The study endeavors to define Gerontophilia, highlight its different forms, diagnose the malady infecting different characters of the selected works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Jose Saramago, determine its causes and then following the rationalistic approach suggest an easy workable remedy. It is also an attempt to find out through the study of the selected works if Gerontophilia is an abnormal behavior linked with psychological ailments or a normal activity that happens as anything else in normal circumstances does.By conducting a detailed survey of the selected works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Jose Saramago the researcher will try to establish the point that Gerontophilia is not a normal behavior and it is caused by some psychological imperfections. The researcher also highlights the relevant portions of the selected texts of Marquez and Saramago to establish that Gerontophilia is linked with unnecessary repression, dominance of id, irrational drives, some kind of complex and subconscious fear. This paper will also bring out the facts that suggest how Gerontophilia becomes a neurotic behavior that needs to be studied carefully and dealt with accordingly. | 2015 |
| Maida Bugvi | MS | A Study of Rhizomatic Structures in the Selected Novels of Marquez The dissertation concerned is an effort to trace life as rhizomatic network in Gabriel Garcia Marquez’ two selected novels: Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude. The principles of rhizome theory support these themes of love, desire and memory, in their capacity to construct internal and external labyrinths of human life. The dissertation explores life’s eminence of being omnipresent in the novels where rhizomatic labyrinth underpins the narrative for a smooth construction of flat multiplicities and lines of flight. In addition, in researcher’s view life in respective novels is a unique labyrinth that has many points to enter into it, but its rhizomatic spread makes it impossible to come out. This labyrinth has no definite beginning or end and it is always in a milieu. The thesis logically cartographs rhizomatic labyrinth through the themes of love, desire and memory and explores that it is not death but it’s life that is limitless. The study argues that Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s six principles of connectivity, heterogeneity, multiplicity, asignifying rupture, decalcomania and cartography conciliate on making life a complex labyrinth by escalating its ambience via desire, love and memory which brings an eternal return in this labyrinth. | 2015 |
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1. Muhammad Jawad, Moazzam Ali Malik, Imran Aslam “The Varicose Ulcer of 1984: Interpellated Auto-culpablization in Orwell” Journal of Development and Social Sciences, June 2022 DOI:
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2. Imran Aslam 1* Syeda Hajra Batool 2 Imrana Zulfiqar 3 “Metaphysics of Epistemological Structures of Societal Exclusion: A Foucauldian Analysis of Camus’ The Stranger and Caligula” Pakistan Languages and Humanities Review , December 2021 DOI:
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3. Imran Aslam, Kainat Azhar “The Vicious Circles of System: A Kafkaesque Study of Kobo Abe’s The Woman in the Dunes” Journal of Development and Social Sciences, December 2021 DOI:
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4. Imran Aslam, Waqar-ul-Hassan, Imrana Zulfiqar “Reinterpreting the Oedipus Myth: A Historiographic Metafictional Study of Kundera’s Unbearable Lightness of Being” Annals of Human and Social Sciences, June 2020 DOI: