July 2025

Division of human mind over the reality and fantasy as characteristic of the Modernist American Literature: The Glass Menagerie and Desire Under the Elms

One of the key features that makes American literature great and distinct is the positioning of the human subject as a pawn in the confrontation between the past and the present—a human psyche caught in a perpetual quandary over embracing reality and rejecting fantasy, or vice versa. In a more Freudian sense, there is a clear divide between the conscious and unconscious aspects of the mind. This confrontation...

Author(s): Md. Nurul Anwar and Jonaydul Karim