
S. Lakshmi MenonSri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning · Department of English
S. Lakshmi Menon
Master of Arts
Inter-disciplinary Research on Lit. and Phenomenological Hermeneutics
and Indian-Western Philosophy Contact-to-collab.
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Introduction
Lakshmi Menon currently works at the Department of English, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, Anantapur Campus.
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Publications (5)
Posthumanism and the Anthropocene have brought into prominence the existential crisis facing humanity, where the very essence of the 'human' is called into question. Today, debates continue about the Enlightenment's rational essentialism, the resulting 'alienation' and the ensuing modern 'split' of the human Self from the environment, due to it bei...
Fragmentation, in the contemporary sense of the term, points to the alienation of the self and the degradation of the environment, occurring simultaneously. The fragmentation of the self, experienced as alienation, manifests at different levels, including the psycho-spiritual domain. Tracing a history of fragmentation in the modern world locates it...
Abstract: This methods paper looks at the methodology of phenomenology and hermeneutics as relevant to literary studies compared with the practice of phenomenological hermeneutics in the social sciences. Literature is the record of human experience in imaginative texts, and literary studies use textual analysis to elicit meanings from the text. The...
Magical realism which originated as a Latin-American and Caribbean narrative strategy focusses
on the handling of trauma generated by the politics and power dynamics of colonised societies
and the resulting divisions. It works as a bridge between various binaries like the dominant and
the depressed and the center and the margins. It is a tool used...
This article is a study on the relevance of the poet in a mechanistic and materialistic world. It briefly touches upon the process that a poet consciously consents to, in an effort to be ready for vouchsafing the inner knowledge of the world that may come to him/her through poetic vision.
The poetic voice is not just a testimony of a personal proce...