Arts, Literature and Humanities

About the Book Each title in the Literary and Cultural Movements: Sources and Documents series concentrates on the cultural and literary area or pe...

About the Book Each title in the Literary and Cultural Movements: Sources and Documents series concentrates on the cultural and literary area or pe...

The Adventures of Rama are incidents derived from the Ramayana, the ancient Hindu tale that was transmitted orally for centuries, captured into mag...

About the Book The world as we know it is over. Man's reign on earth has come to an end, and the reign of the animals has begun. The indifferently ...

About the Book GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748625826); Texture represents the latest advance in cognitive poetics. The book builds feeli...

About the Book Discourse is a battlefield, and texts (in the broadest sense) are weapons in such battles. Contemporary India has become a major bat...

About the Book This work considers why summative assessment in English is difficult and explores viewing it as an arts subject rather than one whic...

When you are trying to find a way out of the silence, you need words. I have this feeling when reading Indian women writers that they are as Rushdi...

Temple Potters of Puri

About the Book This volume presents new work by leading researchers on central themes in the study of event structure: the nature and representatio...

About the Book Television Policy offers a unique and authoritative account of the major developments in television programming and policy since 197...

About the Book Are you a visual learner? Do you prefer instructions that show you how to do something and skip the long-winded explanations? If so,...

In this epic novel, the author examines the very fibre of contemporary Indian life in terms of post-Independence and the post-Gandhian scene. Recei...

Taming Tibet: Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Chinese Development

A well-known name in contemporary sociology, Dipankar Gupta’s wide range of scholarship and popular columns have justly earned him the reputation o...

About the Book Talking Architecture (Revised Edition) is one of the latest additions in the series of Ramin Jahanbegloo's interviews of prominent i...

About the Book From the 1920s through the 1950s, Bertolt Brecht wrote a number of short, fictionalized comments on contemporary life, politics and ...

This book examines, with archival images, three elements: What were the evolutionary features of Tagore’s dance-persona? What cross-cultural liaiso...

A notable contribution on Tagore’s vision of womanhood This book theorizes the continuous reconfigurations—‘making’ and ‘unmaking’—of female subje...

The six dance-dramas translated in this book cover a culmination of Rabindranath Tagore's dance-interest in the latter's most effulgent manifestati...

About the Book When Dwarakanath Tagore, the entrepreneur hailed as India's first 'bourgeois', died on 1 August 1846, Jorasanko found itself rattled...

This book presents a range of Rabindranath Tagore’s creative works, including translations of short stories, essays, poems, memoirs, songs and play...

About the Book This is the first exhaustive investigation of gradience in syntax, conceived of as grammatical indeterminacy. It looks at gradience ...

About the Book The dramatic career of the Irish playwright J.M. Synge, from his first plays in 1902 to his premature death in 1909, almost exactly ...

For the Tamils in modern-day South India and Sri Lanka, a concept of physical and spiritual heat as female energy (sakti) influences their diet, th...

About the Book Recent government initiatives and developments in professional practice have been designed to help families in difficulty effectivel...

A superyacht is a boat that exceeds 30 metres in length, with some surpassing even 100 metres―more than a football field. At the beginning of the t...

About the Book Supervision and Professional Development in Social Work Practice aims to familiarize its readers with the current state of supervisi...

About the Book An exciting, seven-level course that enhances young learners' thinking skills, sharpening their memory while improving their languag...

About the Book An exciting, seven-level course that enhances young learners' thinking skills, sharpening their memory while improving their languag...

About the Book An exciting, seven-level course that enhances young learners' thinking skills, sharpening their memory while improving their languag...

About the Book Summer Resort , the first novel by noted translator Esther Kinsky, is set in a village somewhere on the endless Hungarian plain. It ...

About the Book In Suki, Suniti Namjoshi weaves a witty and delightful tapestry from threads of longing, loss, memory, metaphor, and contemplation. ...

For millennia, the sages of the East have claimed that the world is maya or ‘illusion’. Drawing on theories of sensory perception from physics, psy...

About the Book For many American Muslims, the 9/11 attacks and subsequent War on Terror marked a rise in intense scrutiny of their religious lives ...

About the Book What does falling in love have in common with the fall of the Berlin Wall? Or the fall of the Twin Towers? In the light of postmoder...

About the Book This innovative volume testifies to the current revived interest in Shakespeare's language and style and opens up new and captivatin...

About the Book From Shakespeare to Beckett, the contradictory figure of the fool who possesses unexpected wisdom has been a popular and effective l...

About the Book This book provides an accessible yet comprehensive introduction to the study of the dialects of English as they are spoken around th...

Presents struggles for liberation in the Americas from the perspectives of structural victims Struggles for Liberation in Abya Yala explores the w...

How did Trisha come up with such an incredible collection of stories? Who or what was her inspiration? Why was she being so suspiciously silent? Wh...

About the Book It takes a strong woman to secure bookish remembrance in future times; to see her life becoming a life. David Wallace explores the l...

About the Book Strong Religion, Zealous Media: Christian Fundamentalism and Communication in India is the first in-depth cultural and social analys...

About the Book Not all original works invoke the encore impulse in their audiences. Those that do generally spawn replications - sequels, spin-offs...