| Subject: | Literature (English) |
| Title: | The Sunlit World of Mariposa and Malgudi: A Comparative Study of Stephen Leacock and R.K. Narayan |
| Author(s): | Dr. Manoj Kumar Chaturvedi |
| Published on: | 30th July 2025 |
| Published by: | Lyceum India |
| Name of the Journal: | Lyceum India Journal of Social Sciences |
| ISSN/E-ISSN: | 3048-6513 |
| Volume & Issue: | Volume: 2, Issue: 2 |
| Pages: | 185-192 |
| Original DOI (if any): | 10.5281/zenodo.16754930 |
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| Abstract: | The Present research paper aims at highlighting the fictional places of both the writers Stephen Leacock and R.K. Narayan’s Mariposa and Malgudi. These are the fictional places which depict the novelist’s real insight vision what they thought and did to give proper shape and size to the novels of these novelists on one side Stephen Leacock has made famous the fictional place Mariposa in his novels which is situated in Canada, on the other side R.K. Narayan, an Indian chose Malgudi, a fictional place Tamil Nadu in India. Through these fictional places, one is in Canada and the other in India, the various aspects, similarity and dissimilarity will be searched out. It is worth mention here that like Malgudi, the Mariposa is also situated near railway station in Canada. Both the novelists have made wonder by their beautiful description and tried much to highlight these fictional places. |
| Keywords: | Cosmopolitan, hinterland, Transcontinental, Topographic maps, Maritime express |
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