Arts, Literature and Humanities

The book presents some of the unexplored facts about Keats’ poetry. Keats has been an important poet of romanticism. The poetic works of John Keats...

The Poetry of Jayanta Mahapatra (Fourth Revised and Enlarged Edition, 2009) is an incisive and well-researched book. It makes an in-depth analysis ...

A.K. Ramanujan represents the quintessential Indian English poet engaged in a relentless quest for self in the welter of tradition and contemporary...

Nissim Ezekiel is one of those few men of letters who become legends in their life-time. A playwright of credentials, a critic of encyclopaedic ran...

Besides thirty-seven plays, two volumes of poetry and over 150 sonnets are also attributed to Shakespeare. The volumes of narrative poems that Shak...

An established literary giant of all times, T.S. Eliot has attracted immense amount of critical attention. This book discusses the plays of T.S. El...

This book is based on the myths in the plays of Girish Karnad. The four major plays Hayavadana, Yayati, Nagamandala and The Fire and the Rain have ...

The present book, The Plays of Eugene O’Neill : A Critical Study, is a full-length study of Eugene O’Neill’s major plays. O’Neil, who was awarded t...

Every age has its definitive moments of literature. In the twentieth century, the staging of The Waiting for Godot was one such milestone. The mass...

The Old Drama and the New (1923) is a major contribution of Archer’s matured scholarship. The book contains “with slight additions and retrenchment...

The Novels of William Golding seeks to explore both the structures of Golding’s novels in some detail and their meanings in a sufficiently sustaine...

Postmodernism and Afro-American literary discourse are closely entwined in the fiction of Toni Morrison, argue the writers in this pioneering book....

R.K. Narayan is ranked among the greatest novelists of the world and certainly he is a great literary figure of English in India in 20th century. A...

Dr. Mulk Raj Anand, through his rare prolificity, bold experimentation and aesthetic sensibility, has made immense contribution to Indian as well a...

Mulk Raj Anand, the doyen of Indian English fiction, whose writing career spanned nearly four decades, has carved out a permanent niche in the lite...

The Novels of Mulk Raj Anand: A New Critical Spectrum includes twelve insightful essays which not only shed new light on the old classics like Unto...

Mulk Raj Anand is one of the best known novelists in English in India. Translated into many languages in India as well as abroad, he has been unive...

The present book provides a critical analysis of all the novels and short stories of Ernest Hemingway, a twentieth century American novelist who go...

The Novels of E.M. Forster discusses the works of E.M. Forster in the context of ethical and aesthetic patterns particularly focusing on the fusion...

The present book is a grateful acknowledgement of the contribution of D.H. Lawrence in the arena of literature during the twentieth century. A reno...

C.P. Snow is a prominent figure in modern English fiction with his famous ‘Strangers and Brothers’ sequence of novels and other works. ‘The Novels ...

The Novels of Bhabani Bhattacharya analyses the literary genre of Bhabani Bhattacharya through his six novels. Bhabani Bhattacharya (1906—1988) was...

The present book is an addition to the study of Arun Joshi’s novels in the context of the theme of the crisis of identity in the post-modern world ...

Arun Joshi’s fictional world is most strange. Peeling the multiple layers of artificiality, his protagonists seek to confront the mystery of life b...

Anita Desai’s work represents a unique blending of the Indian and the western. Her novels catch the bewilderment of the individual psyche confronte...

The Nigger of the 'Narcissus', published in 1897, is widely regarded as the finest and the strongest picture of the sea and sea life that the Engli...

The present work contains an in-depth analytical study of some aspects of considerably recent Indian history in six works of Indian English fiction...

Evelyn Waugh is widely regarded as the most brilliant satirical English novelist of his day. He also wrote short stories, travel books, nonfiction,...

The Merchant of Venice bases its dramatic logic on the New Testament premise that you get what you give, and the play’s consistent enactment of thi...

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1894 by Arthur Conan Doyle. In the American edit...

Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the greatest English Romantic poets, and is regarded as among the finest lyric poets in the English language, and o...

Sambhu, a tribal boy, acts as his father’s stand-in in a dhaba-cum-brothel. This occurs after his family desert their ancient village in Kalahandi ...

The Lasting Legacies of Mulk Raj Anand: A Tribute foregrounds Anand the writer, Anand the man, Anand the thinker and Anand the iconoclast. This col...

The Landlord’s Secret and Other Stories is a collection of eleven mystery and adventure stories featuring Ramesh, an adventure loving and self-styl...

The present volume includes critical and insightful essays on ‘Native Responses’ to contemporary Indian English Novel. Nativism as an ideology cann...

Alice Munro has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature (2013) for her short-story collections. The greatest short-story writer of Canada, she h...

The founder Chairman of one of the largest companies in India, Khanna Consumer Products and Industries Limited (KCPIL), dies of old age—and the inh...

The present book seeks to bring out the contours of the Indian novel with a social purpose which has stuck deep roots in the Indian soil by imagina...

This is an in-depth study of Bernard Shaw’s concept of the superman, a study remarkable for its readability and scholarly treatment of the subject ...

The Hound of the Baskervilles is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s third crime novel featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. It was originally serialized i...

Like criticism, translation is always a text about a text and hence it is a metatext. We translate by intuition. There is no ‘Science of translatin...

The God of Small Things : A Saga of Lost Dreams is an attempt to make an in-depth study of Arundhati Roy’s epoch making novel which has brought lau...

“Memories are the soul’s ambrosia; they are our lifetime savings in the safe deposit of our minds, true friends we can fall back upon when we need ...

Shashi Deshpande is one of India’s most distinguished authors, and the winner of the prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award, and Padma Sri Award. In Ind...

Saul Bellow’s writing exhibited the mixture of rich picaresque novel and subtle analysis of Western culture, of entertaining adventure, drastic and...

Manohar Malgonkar (1913—2010) is a writer who has not yet recieved full critical attention as a significant Indo-English novelist. His major novels...

The Fictional Art of Arun Joshi: An Existential Perspective examines the achievements of Arun Joshi as a novelist from a new perspective. Divided i...