Lacanian Theory in Literary Criticism.

The foremost Post-Freudian Jacques Lacan (1901-1981) has established a significant practice of psychoanalysis on the basis of unconscious and language. This model of Psychoanalysis on the basis of structural linguistics has been utilized by Lacan himself in criticizing a work of literature as well as formulating a theory of unconscious through literary expressions. In this model of Lacanian psychoanalysis where the theory of unconscious and the theory of literature defining each other establishes a Post-Freudian model of psychoanalytic criticism. This model which further interrogates into the literary text through the language in order to examine the unconscious of both the writer and the reader is made possible. The present essay considers outlining the Lacanian model of literary criticism

Capitalization of Epic and Epic Capitalization: An Analysis of Chhota Bheem

Epic is an absolute genre out of which the other genres have been emerging even at present. Each of the characteristics of epic has provided a great space for opportunity to create the elements of any genre. By the utilization of such among the characteristics, the cartoon shows on Indian television have emerged in establishing a strong capitalistic arena. In this context, the present paper attempts to analyze the cartoon show ‘Chhota Bheem’ to understand how the show has utilized epic characteristics and consequentially how it is capitalizing the epic out of its ‘pseudoepic’ status. Further, the paper attempts to examine the social, psychological and cultural issues the show has been creating on the contemporary Indian society

The WWW Prototype of the Alexandria Digital Library

The Alexandria Digital Library (ADL) is focussed on providing broad access to distributed collections of spatially-indexed information. ADL has a four-component architecture involving collections, catalog, interfaces, and ingest facilities. The first stage in the construction of ADL resulted in the design and implementation of a rapid prototype (RP) system. The second stage, which is described in this paper, involves an expansion of the functionality of the RP and its extension to the World-Wide-Web (WWW). We describe issues arising in each of the components of the architecture in extending the library to WWW as well as our current resolution of these issues. We also discuss an extension of the class of supportable queries to include simple, contentbased queries involving geographic "features" and image textures. The metadata of ADL has been extended to include gazetteer information supporting the first class of extended queries. We discuss image processing and parallel computing sup..