English Literature

Rabindranath Tagore’s long life (1861-1941) was marked by ceaseless and torrential flow of creativity manifested in the richness and variety of all kinds of literary and artistic forms. He was both a man of action and a seer, a man of royal grande...

“Out of evil cometh good.” One of the important consequences of colonialism in India is the birth of Indian English literature. The process through which it developed had three distinct stages. In the first stage there was admiration and imitation...

Studies on Rabindranath Tagore includes essays which offer illuminating insights into various facets of Tagore’s literary works, mind, and personality. Tagore’s long life of eighty years was marked by ceaseless and torrential flow of creativity ma...

Studies on Rabindranath Tagore includes essays which offer illuminating insights into various facets of Tagore’s literary works, mind, and personality. Tagore’s long life of eighty years was marked by ceaseless and torrential flow of creativity ma...

Studies on Rabindranath Tagore includes essays which offer illuminating insights into various facets of Tagore’s literary works, mind, and personality. Tagore’s long life of eighty years was marked by ceaseless and torrential flow of creativity ma...

V.S. Naipaul has claimed that all his work is really one and he has been writing one big book all these years; also, considering the world he has stepped into and the world he has to look at, he cannot be a professional novelist in the old sense. ...

Intended to serve the academic needs of the students of English literature, the Companion is an ultimate literary reference source, providing an up-to-date, comprehensive and authoritative biographies of novelists, poets, playwrights, essayists, j...

The world body of literature in English, during the last few centuries, has been immensely enriched by women writers with their sharp perception and profound insight into hitherto unexplored areas of human experience on the one hand, and technical...

The series—Studies in Women Writers in English—is a grateful acknowledgement of the contribution and public recognition of the emerging voice of women in the arena of English literature during the last few centuries, especially in the latter half ...

This volume, the seventh in the series—Studies in Women Writers in English—is a grateful acknowledgment of the contribution and public recognition of the emerging voice of women in the arena of literature during the last few centuries, and especia...

The new series—Studies in Women Writers in English—is a grateful acknowledgment of the contribution and public recognition of the emerging voice of women in the arena of literature during the last few centuries, and especially in the latter half o...

The new series—Studies in Women Writers in English—is a grateful acknowledgment of the contribution and public recognition of the emerging voice of women in the arena of literature during the last few centuries, and especially in the latter half o...

English is being written and read today by more people outside England than inside. This applies no less to the women writers in English across the globe who have made their unmistakable mark in English literature[s], especially in the last centur...

The world body of literature in English, during the last few centuries, has been immensely enriched by women writers with their sharp perception and profound insight into hitherto unexplored areas of human experience on the one hand, and technical...

The essays included in the anthology offer a broad, luminous spectrum of Translation Studies. During the last three decades Translation Studies or Translatology has developed into an independent discipline of rich potentials leading to the establi...

Sixteen critical essays that constitute this Volume shed new light on some of the excellent literary works in English produced in different parts of the world: England, America, Canada, Africa and India. The authors discussed are: Marlowe, Shakesp...

The fifteen essays included in this volume are refreshingly original and cover a wide range of authors and subjects. Looking briefly at Keats the essays move on to the great Victorian novelist and poet, Thomas Hardy, then linger for a considerable...

Here is the seventh Volume of Studies in Literature in English brought out in response to the growing demand for the series. Starting with the good old Shakespeare of perennial interest the essays included in this Volume shed new light on Milton, ...

The present volume of Studies in Literature in English is brought out in response to the growing demand for this series by our erudite readers. The twenty brilliant essays that constitute this volume offer new insights into old authors. Starting w...

This is the fifth volume of Studies in Literature in English. The nineteen essays that constitute this volume cover a wide range of authors across time and space. Starting with Ben Jonson, the celebrated British dramatist of the Elizabethan Renais...

It is a pleasure to place in the hands of our readers the fourth volume in the series, Studies in Literature in English. The essays included in this volume cover a broad spectrum of British canonical authors and texts and the studies are as insigh...

A unique characteristic of a canonical text is that it is amenable to multiple interpretations and every age discovers a new meaning in it and a new significance for its own time. The insightful essays that constitute this volume cover a broad spe...

Here is the Second volume of the New Series, Studies in Literature in English. The present volume includes studies on some celebrated canonical British texts and authors like Milton, Austen, Lawrence, Conrad and Eliot, as well as some major postco...

This is the seventeenth volume in the series, Studies in Literature in English. The twenty-one essays in this volume cover a broad spectrum including British canonical authors from different eras like Milton, Keats, Arnold and Auden, as well as ‘n...

Nineteen critical essays that constitute this Volume cover a wide range of authors and literary works of different parts of the world: England, France, Norway, Africa and Latin America, for example. The authors discussed are: Hardy, Auden, Osborne...

The seventeen essays that constitute this volume cover a wide range of authors across space and time. Starting chronologically with Christopher Marlowe’s classic play Doctor Faustus, which is ever amenable to fresh interpretation, the essays take ...

Studies in Literature in English, Vol. 14, is intended to meet the growing demand for the series. The volume covers a wide range of authors and subjects across space and time. The seven essays on mainstream British literature cover a range of cano...

The present thirteenth volume of Studies in Literature in English contains seventeen well-researched essays covering a wide range of authors and subjects across space and time. Starting with the good old Shakespeare, the essays cover a number of B...

This anthology of as many as twenty essays offers us critiques and interpretations of mainstream British and American literature, as well as addresses the issue of studying literature vis-à-vis certain theoretical and emerging perspectives of our ...

This anthology comprising eighteen essays provides glimpses of mainstream British literature as well as surveys of American, African, and Canadian writings in English, and in a way a view of the practice of English writing across the globe. Here a...

The twenty-one essays that constitute this Volume cover a wide range of authors and texts related to the literature in English. Starting chronologically with the good old Shakespeare, the perpetual source of research and inspiration for new critic...

The essays included in this volume constitute the first volume of a new series Studies in Literature in English. It is extremely fascinating to see how in different historical and cultural situations literatures produced in different countries ass...

The present thirteenth volume of Studies in Literature in English contains seventeen well-researched essays covering a wide range of authors and subjects across space and time. Starting with the good old Shakespeare, the essays cover a number of B...

The twenty-five essays included in this volume, which is actually a sequel to Studies in Literary Criticism (2001), is a selection of articles published in different journals and periodicals. Most of the essays were occasioned by seminars and conf...

The twenty-five critical studies in the book which cover a wide spectrum of subjects, authors, titles and concepts across time and space, may be broadly classified into four categories : essays on (i) critical theory, (ii) on individual authors, (...

The twenty-five essays included in this volume, which is actually a sequel to Studies in Literary Criticism (2001), is a selection of articles published in different journals and periodicals. Most of the essays were occasioned by seminars and conf...

The importance of English both as a link language, a means of communication and as a medium of instruction has been steadily growing since Independence, so that the total number of learners of English in India today would easily exceed the total p...

Matthew Arnold once remarked, “He does not know English literature who only English literature knows,” and Max Muller arrived at the intellectual conviction that “all higher knowledge is gained by comparison and rests on comparison.”

Commonwealth Literature today stands for literature(s) in English written in the commonwealth countries outside the Anglo-American tradition. What is common between the diverse members of the commonwealth in spite of their different calendars of I...

The Volume includes discussions on the American tradition of poetry as reflected in and enriched by the poetry of Robert Frost; then moving through Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Sylvia Plath and Philip Roth and finally focuses on Ernest Hemin...

Salman Rushdie (1947– ) has emerged over the years as one of the most controversial figures of our times who excites contrary feelings. But whether admired or criticized, the fact remains that Rushdie, with his commitment to struggle for freedom o...

Salman Rushdie (1947– ) has emerged over the years as one of the most controversial figures of our times who excites contrary feelings. But whether admired or criticized, the fact remains that Rushdie, with his commitment to struggle for freedom o...

Salman Rushdie (1947– ) has emerged over the years as one of the most controversial figures of our times who excites contrary feelings. But whether admired or criticized, the fact remains that Rushdie, with his commitment to struggle for freedom o...

The present volume comprises complete translations of two important collections of Tagore’s essays on literature: Sāhityer Pathe and Sāhityer Svarūp. Tagore’s literary essays, however, are certainly not confined to the essays included in these two...

Philosophical speculations about the origin of poetry and the nature and function of criticism have engaged the attention of poets and critics for over 2500 years in the West and still there is no consensus either regarding the mysterious process ...

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 Heart of Darkness, the sibylline charm of the novel has established it as one of the most important ca...

One of the linguistic consequences of colonialism is that English is now one of the official languages of India, and both the English literature and the English language are studied all over the country. After independence, English naturally lost ...

The reputation of Wordsworth, once regarded as the most important exponent of English Romanticism, has, strangely, been quite controversial, and the critical reception of his poetry had many ups and downs. If Arnold considers him “one of the chief...