Arts, Literature and Humanities

Modern English Literature: From Chaucer to The Present Day critically examines the famous authors of English Literature spread over a long period, ...

This anthology assembles sixteen essays on different aspects of modern criticism, by some of the best scholars from six countries and four continen...

Modern American literature is too vast and varied to be studied between the covers of a single book. Although limited by space, a sincere effort ha...

There is no poet in English Literature like Milton : so firm in religious conviction, so fierce in politics, so high in poetic flight, so grand in ...

A rare embodiment of the Brahminical virtue of learning, a.K. Ramanujan was one of the most prodigious of creative writers that modern India has pr...

This book is an intensive attempt to analyze the gendered nature of immigrant experience portrayed in the short stories of three highly acclaimed I...

William Shakespeare (B 26 April 1564? 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English lang...

Special Features: enotes.com Middlemarch (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters); Middlemarch (Magill Book Reviews); Middlemarch (Masterplots, Revised ...

Often a question is raised whether the marginalized can speak. It is a fact that the marginalized cannot stay voiceless for long, they have to spea...

Margaret Eleanor Atwood is a versatile artist in the Canadian literature. This book is an assessment of Atwood’s belief about the condition of wome...

The book has extended and widened the implications of the term “New Literatures in English” to include an assessment of New Humanities and other ar...

This book presents a reasonably comprehensive account of the development of the Indian English novel since Independence. The novel during the colon...

G.B. Shaw is a literary Mohican who bestrode modern thought like a Colossus, but he was not a historian in a popular sense. He wrote many plays on ...

Major Barbara, a social satire in three acts, written in 1905 and published in 1907, is the most controversial of Shaw’s works which mocks religiou...

The present anthology entitled Mahesh Dattani: Themes Techniques and Issues is an assortment of scholarly research papers on fresh perspectives and...

Once considered scandalizingly immoral, Flaubert’s exquisite debut novel unsparingly depicts a woman’s gradual corruption and the human mind in sea...

Losing My Way, Shiv K. Kumar’s seventh collection of poems, adds a new dimension to his poetic craft and vision. Already recognized as one of the m...

Home has always been a centre of contention, contestation, and construction. It has never been a constant—a truth that contemporary life asserts mo...

Dr. Samuel Johnson's magnum opus, Lives of the English Poets, is such a work as posterity will not willingly let die. Though written more than 200 ...

Dr. Samuel Johnson's magnum opus, Lives of the English Poets, is such a work as posterity will not willingly let die. Though written more than 200 ...

Literary Theory: Textual Application provides a critical and thorough presentation of contemporary theoretical perspectives on the different litera...

This book examines and evaluates the critical position of R.S. Crane, the leader of the Chicago school of formalistic criticism. Crane and his coll...

Literary Criticism in Theory and Practice presents a penetrating analysis of the major theories and practices of all the dominant groups of literar...

Literature is the chief surrogate for faith, or at least this is what a number of thinkers after the eighteenth century have thought. But since lit...

Naveen’s short stories encompass a wide spectrum of life. They reveal his insights into the intricacies of the psychological, social and political ...

The book contains six interesting and useful essays on Indian English literature. As it contains several essays on Urdu Literature and studies wher...

India has been consistently producing award-winning authors or inspiring other writers to base their works on Indian colour, themes and identity. K...

King Solomon’s Mines, the first English adventure novel set in Africa describes a search of an unexplored region of Africa by a group of adventurer...

Kim, a picaresque novel by Rudyard Kipling, was published serially in McClure’s Magazine, before being published in book form in 1901. The story is...

Indian English literature has established its credentials all over the world. Still litterateurs in this stream have to be continuously appraised a...

As a poet Kamala Das merits a place among the best women poets of the twentieth century. She has made enormous contribution to Indian poetry in Eng...

Just So Stories is a collection of 12 interesting stories with eccentric myths created by Rudyard Kipling. Most of the stories are fanciful revelat...

Kipling's allegory, The Jungle Books, set in India and filled with high adventure and extraordinary characters that touch both our intellect and ou...

Julius Caesar, a tragedy by William Shakespeare, is believed to have been written in 1599. It portrays the 44 BC conspiracy against the Roman dicta...

Joyce Cary (1888-1957) is a forerunner of post-colonial thinking, yet remains a critically marginalised political writer in British Literature. Thi...

Hastily written in pencil and serialized in Blackwood’s Magazine in 1899 as “The Heart of Darkness”, and later published in book form in 1902 as He...

The book Jonathan Swift: A Pedagogical Approach tries to analyse the works of Jonathan Swift—an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphlete...

The study-aids available in England and America, among other places, form the basis of The Atlantic Critical Studies which is primarily meant to ca...

Rabindranath Tagore’s long life (1861- 1941) was marked by ceaseless and torrential flow of creativity manifested in the richness and variety of al...

Pride and Prejudice is an outstanding English novel that shows Jane Austen at the height of her writing powers. Throughout the novel, the main vehi...

The present book is a critical appreciation of Pride and Prejudice—the most celebrated and unforgettable novel of Jane Austen, who is acknowledged ...

Writing, as James Joyce envisaged, is a continuous process, always creating new words, new meanings, new works in worlds born anew. However, any co...

Often misjudged as a mere entertainer, Priestley has not received a just and due recognition as a serious Time-writer endowed with a poetic vision,...

The revolutionary developments in the field of Information Technology (IT) and the compulsions of Globalization have made it imperative to reorient...

The book is a collection of very interesting and readable pieces of narrations/short stories earlier published by the author in different reputed n...

In undertaking to examine Iqbal’s relationship to the English Romantic poets, Mr Ghulam Rasool Malik addresses himself to a major problem in Iqbal ...