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Cultural theorists such as Raymond Williams - [Volume 8 Issue-1 –March- 2026 (Special Issue on Eco-narratives)](https://newliteraria.com/2026/02/17/volume-8-issue-1-february-march-2026-special-issue/): COVER PAGE- DOWNLOAD CONTENT PAGE– DOWNLOAD When the laws of the heart have been broken, what can the laws of the Society do?”: Exploring the fragility of Conjugal Intimacy and Marital Erosion in Bratya Basu’s Who?Soumyadip GhoshABSTRACT FULL-TEXT PDF DOI Eco-Archives Across Cultures: Comparative Study of Global Indigenous NarrativesMeghna Varun & Dr. Madhu SharmaABSTRACT FULL-TEXT PDF DOI Subjective Maps, Dense Cities: Literary Cartography and Urban Futures in Calvino’s Invisible CitiesArnab DasguptaABSTRACT FULL-TEXT PDF DOI Forbidden Desires and Killer Sex Robots: Exploring the Limits of Posthuman Counter-heteronormative Possibilities in Eloghosa Osunde’s Vagabonds!Ashmita BiswasABSTRACT FULL-TEXT PDF DOI The Crisis in Spatial/Material Belonging/s in Narendranath - [Volume 7 Issue-2 – January – February 2026 (Special Issue on Humanity, Crisis, and Change)](https://newliteraria.com/2026/02/01/volume-7-issue-2-january-february-2026-special-issue-on-humanity-crisis-and-change/): COVER PAGE- DOWNLOAD CONTENT PAGE– DOWNLOAD Editorial Sips of Time: Identity, Memory, and Emotional Migration in Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s Before the Coffee Gets Cold SeriesSomoshri PaladhiABSTRACT FULL-TEXT PDF DOI Playing God in the Anthropocene: Bioengineering and the Ethics of Creation in the Jurassic World FranchiseDebalina DasABSTRACT FULL-TEXT PDF DOI Reimagining Ecological Literature: Myth as a Counter-Hegemonic Mode of Expression in The River of StoriesSumegha VaidABSTRACT FULL-TEXT PDF DOI “Our oil tank is nearly empty”: Energy Scarcity, Precarious Lives and the Quest for Sustainable Future in Suzanne Weyn’s EmptyShankha Shubhra Mandal ABSTRACT FULL-TEXT PDF DOI The Importance of International Exchange in a Time of - [Volume 7 Issue-1 (Special Issue on Fragmented Voices: Subalternity & Subjectivity in Contemporary Literature)](https://newliteraria.com/2025/08/20/special-issue/): COVER PAGE- DOWNLOAD CONTENT PAGE– DOWNLOAD Editorial Subalternising the Surrogate: Reading Health and Precarity in the Indian Commercial Surrogacy ArrangementJayati GangulyABSTRACT FULL-TEXT PDF DOI Contours of Belonging: Indigenous Narratives of Place and Identity from India’s NortheastPF John BoscoABSTRACT FULL-TEXT PDF DOI The Politics of Gender: A Postmodern Reading of Women in Orhan Pamuk’s SnowShubhashree Chakraborty, Dr. Imtiaz Ahmad Bhat & Dr. Khuman Bhagirath JetubhaiABSTRACT FULL-TEXT PDF DOI The Uncalculated History of The Childhood Narratives in Holocaust Literature and TestimoniesRampreet Kaur & Dr Ambika SharmaABSTRACT FULL-TEXT PDF DOI Interpreting the Dress Code of Zarri Bano:  From Fashionism to SpiritualismDr. Saleha IlhaamABSTRACT FULL-TEXT PDF - [Volume 6 Issue 2- August-September-2025(Special Issue on Eco-Narratives and Climate Fiction)](https://newliteraria.com/2025/07/14/issue-2/): COVER PAGE- DOWNLOAD CONTENT PAGE– DOWNLOAD Editorial Salience and activation in Susan Fennimore Cooper’s Econarrative: (a Feminist) Ecocritical Perspective on Rural HoursAbdelkader BOUHMIDAABSTRACT FULL-TEXT PDF DOI Bodies in the Wilderness: Ecopoetics, Materiality, and the Politics of Body in William Blake’s Songs of Experience and Margaret Atwood’s SurfacingSumana GhoshABSTRACT FULL-TEXT PDF DOI Yearning for a Greener Tomorrow: An Analysis of the Role of Select Songs in Preserving NatureDr. Soubhagya S.P.ABSTRACT FULL-TEXT PDF DOI Neoliberalism and Environmental Decline: The Critical Need to Harmonise Profit with Ecological Well-beingDr. Manjari JohriABSTRACT FULL-TEXT PDF DOI The Symbolic Landscape: A Study of Kalidasa’s Abhijnānaśākuntalam through the Lens of - [Volume 6 Issue 1- January-February-2025(Special Issue on Conversations Between Humanities and Social Sciences](https://newliteraria.com/2025/01/31/volume-6-issue-1/): COVER PAGE- DOWNLOAD CONTENT PAGE– DOWNLOAD Editorial The Rendezvous of Literature and Artificial Intelligence: A Fortune or a Fiasco?Fathima Shifa & Dr Shameema. TABSTRACT FULL-TEXT PDF DOI From Ancient Myth to Modern Message: The Timeless Relevance of Gaia in Imogen Greenberg’s Gaia: Goddess of EarthRaman & Dr. Narinder SharmaABSTRACT FULL-TEXT PDF DOI Hindu India in Hergé: A Study of Select AlbumsChampakdyuti MajumderABSTRACT FULL-TEXT PDF DOI War’s Echoes: Psychiatric Progress and Societal Evolution in Pat Barker’s The Regeneration TrilogyIvana ChowdhuryABSTRACT FULL-TEXT PDF DOI The Symbolic Landscape: A Study of Kalidasa’s Abhijnānaśākuntalam through the Lens of EcocriticismDr. Archana GuptaABSTRACT FULL-TEXT PDF DOI Conservatism meets - [Volume 5 Issue 2](https://newliteraria.com/2024/07/24/3099/): Vol. 5 Issue 2August- September 2024 COVER PAGE- DOWNLOAD CONTENT PAGE– DOWNLOAD Editorial Playing the Pirate, Playing the Jew: Refiguring the Other(s) on the Early Modern English StageRamit DasABSTRACT FULL-TEXT PDF DOI The Complexities of Transnational Identity and Nazneen’s Concept of Agency in Monica Ali’s Brick LaneSadia AfreenABSTRACT FULL-TEXT PDF DOI Metaphors and the Integration of Faith and Reason in Ang Lee’s Life of PiLi ChunyiABSTRACT FULL-TEXT PDF DOI Examining the Impact of Cinema on the Normalization of Queer and Sexual Minorities Through Kundalkar’s Cobalt BlueManjari JohriABSTRACT FULL-TEXT PDF DOI The Celtic Other in the Regionalist Poems of John HewittJ.R. 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