English Literature

Interpreting Poetry and Evaluating Criticism seeks to evaluate canonical Indian English poetry and interpret the poetry of W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes and Nissim Ezekiel as beacon light to English, Irish and Indian English po...

Thinking of the usefulness and the great popularity of the first eight editions of the book, Twentieth Century Literary Criticism and considering the valuable suggestions received from several quarters, the current ninth edition has been revised a...

Postmodernism in Indian English literature refers to the works of literature after 1980. If Raja Rao’s Kanthapura (1938) marks modernism, Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children (1981) and Nissim Ezekiel’s Latter-Day Psalms (1982) mark postmodernism ...

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 translating’ though there are scientific theories of translation. In this revised and enlarged edition of A ...

The Poetry of Jayanta Mahapatra (Fourth Revised and Enlarged Edition, 2009) is an incisive and well-researched book. It makes an in-depth analysis of the corpus of Mahapatra’s poetry from Close the Sky, Ten by Ten to Random Descent (2005). In this...

The book Critical Essays on Post-Colonial Literature attempts to analyze Postcolonial poetry, Caribbean poetry, Indian english poetry, Canadian fiction, Indian english fiction, short-story, and drama. It deals with the question of identity of emig...

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 translating’ though there are scientific theories of translation. In this book, Dr. B.K. Das has made a thorou...

Studies in Postcolonial Literature contains twenty-three papers and two interviews with two eminent writers on different genres—poetry, fiction, short fiction and drama—of Postcolonial Literature. It deals with literatures in English outside the A...

Shiv K. Kumar as a Post-colonial Poet is an incisive and well researched book. It makes an indepth study of the entire corpus of Shiv K. Kumar’s Poetry from all angles — themes, images, idioms, post-coloniality and technical accomplishments. The c...

Revisiting W.B. Yeats’s World and Art is a well-researched book occasioned by the poet’s 150th birth anniversary in 2015. This book is meant to be a tribute to the great poet W.B. Yeats from India by way of appreciation and admiration for him. Ten...

Modern Indian Theatre came into being with the establishment of Sangeet Natak Akademi, the National Academy of Music and Dance Drama and the National School of Drama in the 1950s and ’60s. The best known four playwrights—Mohan Rakesh, Girish Karna...

Comparative Literature contains fifteen scholarly papers on theory and practice of this body of literature in our time. It makes an attempt to analyse Eastern and Western poetics, theory of language, modernism and post-modernism on a comparative b...

This book deals with colonialism, political culture and nationalism in India. It examines Sati Pratha in nineteenth-century India, the plight of women in Indian society. It deals with the politics of the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi in retrospe...