Volume 3, Number 1, 2020 – The Golden Line: A Magazine on English Literature

Our Global Guild: Responding to Sathyaraj Venkatesan’s “On Health Humanities and Graphic Medicine”

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A David Lewis, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Healthcare Business, MHS Program Coordinator , School of Healthcare Business MCPHS University. Email: ADavid.Lewis@mcphs.edu Abstract Graphic Medicine, the intersection between comic books and medicine/healthcare, is growing worldwide, especially in India. Among its pioneers there is Sathyaraj Venkatesan, whose approach and utilization of Graphic Medicine may come with a…

Disaster and Its Studies: Reinterpreting Disasters in Homer’s Iliad and Sophocles’Oedipus Rex

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Banhisikha Maity B.A Student, , PG Department of English. Bhatter College, Dantan E-mail: banhi653@gmail.com Special Issue on Diseases, Death and Disorder, 2020 Abstract Studying or analyzing disasters has recently given birth to a relatively new interdisciplinary field called ‘Disaster Studies’ that aims at studying the impacts or aftereffects of disaster/s on the different levels…

Epidemics of the Greek World and its Representation: A Comparative Analysis of Thucydides’ Peloponnesian War, Homer’s Iliad and Sophocles’ Oedipus the King

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Rajesh Shyamal B.A Student, , PG Department of English. Bhatter College, Dantan E-mail: rajesh721426@gmail.com Special Issue on Diseases, Death and Disorder, 2020 Abstract There has hardly been a civilization/society that has not faced infectious disease, or so to say epidemics. Both its causation and its corollary aftermath have been a matter of much concern…

Epidemics and its After Effects on Society: A Study of the Three Most Devastating Epidemics in the European History

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Sandip Majhi B.A Student, , PG Department of English. Bhatter College, Dantan E-mail: sandipmajhi602@gmail.com Special Issue on Diseases, Death and Disorder, 2020 Abstract: Evolution, as it is commonly understood, is a change in the characteristics of a species over several generations and depends on the process of natural selection. This evolution not only…

From Pandemic to Pan-academic: Changing Modes of Publication in the Time of COVID 19

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Mir Ahammad Ali Chief Editor, The Golden Line & Assistant Professor, Department of English, Bhatter College, Dantan Special Issue on Diseases, Death and Disorder, 2020 It has been five years since we are publishing The Golden Line: A Magazine of English Literature on diverse areas of Literature. We have started this online platform back in 2015 and…

From Monstrosity to Motherhood: Impact of Plague on the Royal Burmese Family in Amitav Ghosh’s The Glass Palace

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Soumen Chatterjee Assistant Teacher, Barabeli Junior High School (Govt-aided), West Bengal E-mail: soumenchatterjee94@gmail.com Special Issue on Diseases, Death and Disorder, 2020 Abstract From time immemorial human societies have been regularly hit by epidemics that have taken a heavy toll on human lives. During these moments of crisis each and every individual has to compromise with…

Can “Disease” be the Cure?: Bio-Weapons in Population Control, Demodystopia, and the Question of Consent in Dan Brown’s Inferno

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Isha Biswas Ph.D. Scholar, English Department, Vidyasagar University Abstract In the current global scenario, we find ourselves approaching rapidly-escalating paranoia about survival, enmeshed in heated, increasingly frantic discussions about long-term consequences once the madness recedes. Trapped in the inescapable periodicity of historic recurrence of pandemics, there is a hike in readership of postmodern SF and…

‘The time is out of joint’: Discourses of Diseases and Discontent in the Body Politic

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Debaditya Chakraborty1 & Rajarshi Bagchi2 1Ph.D. Research Scholar, Department of English, Bankura University 2Assistant Professor, North Bengal St. Xavier’s College Special Issue on Diseases, Death and Disorder, 2020 Abstract Man is the product of his environment, the latter connoting both his natural and cultural environs. The cultural environment, in turn, is determined by his socio-political…

Finding Pandora: A Mythic Response to the Coronavirus

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Loraine Haywood Conjoint Fellow, The University of Newcastle, Australia E-mail: loraine.haywood@uon.edu.au Special Issue on Diseases, Death and Disorder, 2020 Abstract Hesiod used the dragon Queen Tiamat as a foundation for his mythic Pandora. Tiamat belongs to a theogony in the supremacy of Patriarchal gods in a political contest for the throne. Hesiod transforms Pandora from…

Editorial: Special Issue on Diseases, Disasters, Deaths and Disorders in Arts, Literature and Culture

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Thakurdas Jana Guest Lecturer, Dept. of English, Bhatter College, Dantan Special Issue on Diseases, Death and Disorder, 2020 In our post-Corona global situation, it has been proved that in the big timeline of evolutionary history, humans occupy a very small place and the historical timeline is very short. Ever since the birth of life on…