English Literature

A lucid, comprehensive yet compact text focusing on core language skills in English, including vocabulary building, lexis, syntax, and communicative grammar. Functional English for Communication will help readers enrich their listening, speaking,...

The book Higher English Grammar and Composition is based on Modern English Grammar which has its base in descriptive linguistics and describes the structure/system of English language under Sound System, Word System, Syntax, and Punctuation; diffe...

English has emerged as the leading language for write-ups, conversations, media and communication. English skills are generally considered a passport to success as they open floodgates of opportunities for the person who acquires them. Grammar is ...

The book is based on the uniform pattern of syllabus for M.A. in English for Indian Universities prescribed by the UGC. It is comprehensive and covers the entire history of British Literature. It also includes exhaustive material on American Liter...

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...

In the context of traditional Hindu society, Dalit status has often been historically associated with occupations considered ritually impure, such as any involving leatherwork, butchering, or removal of rubbish, animal carcasses, and waste. Engagi...

NET is one of the most difficult examinations, more so because the syllabus is very vast and only a few lucky ones can cross the threshold, especially in English. This is borne out by the small number of students who have been able to clear the te...

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...

Literary studies are supplemented by critiques that offer unique perspectives on diverse and complex concerns influencing every epoch. While literary theory provides an expansive philosophical background to comprehend literature, literary criticis...

Phonetics as a subject continues to be a puzzle for majority of learners of English in India. At the same time, the growing relevance of communication skills in different walks of life has turned it into an indispensable subject that has the poten...

Phonetics is a branch of linguistics that comprises the study of the sounds of human speech. It is concerned with the physical properties of speech sounds or signs, their physiological production, acoustic properties, auditory perception and neuro...

It is observed that criticism in the latter half of the twentieth century becomes language-oriented. By and large, it aims to analyze the work of literature on the basis of diction, syntax, imagery, tropes, etc. and to apply the analysis to the ge...

Literary Criticism: An MCQ Based Study Guide offers an exhaustive coverage of Literary Criticism as a discipline. Beginning with the Classical Criticism of the Ancient Greeks, it explores the revival of its ideas during the Renaissance, its reinte...

The 37 essays included in this volume are gleaned from the rich repertoire of Tagore's original English writings which, unfortunately, did not receive the attention they deserve, possibly because they were eclipsed by the huge body of his creative...

The growing trend of inter-cultural migration brought by global market forces has infused fresh interest among people across the world in learning major world languages. This has resulted in the emergence of linguistics as a highly relevant discip...

Literary theory is a systematic study of the nature of literature and of the methods for analyzing literature. Literary theory and literary criticism are interpretative tools that enable us to think insightfully about the literature we read. The b...

A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays contains Shelley's famous claim that "poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world". Shelley's argument for poetry is written within the context of Romanticism. The book showcases Shelley's aesthetic p...

The book is a scholarly work which throws ample light on Hardy, a poet-thinker so far a neglected genius. The author penetrates deep into Hardy’s Poetry in the light of atheistic Existentialism. He focuses on Hardy’s views on Man, his relationship...

Dalit literature defies inequality, injustice, subjugation, and marginalization; and sows the seeds of revulsion, resistance, and revolution in human minds. It offers a platform for the erstwhile voiceless, dispossessed, and underprivileged sectio...

Midnight’s Children, the second novel of Salman Rushdie, was published in 1981. In this epical novel he speaks of many Indians and many versions of reality. High seriousness of the elderly writers, like Raja Rao or R.K. Narayan, is replaced in his...

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 ...

Literary theory with an intellectual ancestry of over 2300 years is a highly complex and fascinating discipline. It is highly inter-disciplinary and intellectually very demanding to comprehend. Literary theory, from Aristotle (Classicism) to Alan ...

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 ...

In an era of globalization, mastering English language has assumed great significance. Communication in English has become an essential skill for the second language learners. To speak English accurately with correct pronunciation, a fair knowledg...

During the post-war years the experimental tendency in British novel continued, but the critics lamented that the mid-twentieth century British literature produced no Ulysses. William Golding’s Lord of the Flies (1954) was accepted as an experimen...

Studies in Literature presents challenging ideas on a variety of literary topics including the poetry of T.S. Eliot. In “Indian Response to T.S. Eliot: Potentialities and Directions”, the fashionable influence-approach is subjected to a close scru...

Ruskin Bond is a well-known Indian writer of British descent. His deep love for Indian culture and its people developed an understanding that enlarged the scope of Indian-English relationship. Treading through the labyrinth of various predicaments...

Harley Granville-Barker’s Prefaces to Shakespeare originally published in five series between 1927 and 1947 covering ten plays are collected in four volumes: Volume I (Hamlet), Volume II (King Lear, Cymbeline, Julius Caesar), Volume III (Antony an...

Pedagogical linguistics deals with linguistics, phonology, phonetics, semantics, error-analysis, syllabus-design, preposition, spelling patterns, etc. In this book, linguistics and teaching of English have been combined in applied linguistics or p...

Feminism in Modern English Drama explores the emergence of the New Woman in the plays of Bernard Shaw, Galsworthy and Granville Barker and how their dominating role revolutionized the modern drama. The emphasis shifted from the male protagonist to...

Dryden’s main contribution to literary criticism is represented by An Essay of Dramatic Poesy in which in the form of a lively dialogue his views on drama are propounded. In this landmark of English Criticism, Dryden examines five important issues...

Australian literature refers to the literary work produced in the area or by the people of the Commonwealth of Australia and its preceding colonies. The Australian literary tradition is linked to the broader tradition of English literature because...

There has been much debate and discussion on the origin of language in human species. The exact time of origin of human language is still unknown due to lack of direct evidence. Experts have drawn inferences from secondary sources like fossils and...

The concept of 'diaspora' has garnered unprecedented fascination with the substantial surge in migration that has taken place across the globe in the last few decades. Diaspora forges a home outside the homeland. Despite numerous persistent and an...

In this book Bradley approaches the major tragedies of Shakespeare through an extended study of the characters, who were presented as personalities independent of their place in the plays. Though his approach has been questioned since the 1930s, t...

This book introduces post-graduate students and researchers to the basics and techniques of research methods in English literature and language. It covers qualitative and quantitative methodology and includes the following topics: • Definition, a...

Portrayal of Conflict and Insurgency in Literature from Kashmir studies the turbulent times of the 1990s insurgency and militancy in the Kashmir Valley. This was a seminal event in the chequered history of the region as it completely changed the c...

The dynamic field of graphic narratives is a burgeoning area of academic research and is being subjected to sustained analysis in academia worldwide. Indian Graphic Narratives: Critical Responses offers a compelling exploration of recent graphic n...

Identity and Gender in Postcolonial Multiculturalism covers the complexities of identity and gender in contemporary postcolonial British society, which transformed from a homogeneous society into a multicultural landscape, celebrating heterogeneit...

The book presents the history of English literature from Anglo-Saxon times to the close of the Victorian Era. It aims to create in every student the desire to read the best books in literature, and to know literature itself rather than what has be...

There is no dearth of books on literary and/or related terms. However, any new book of some worth is invariably expected to add something new to the old depository. Since the 1980s, thanks to the proliferation of high-tech communication devices an...

Dr. Faustus is not only the masterpiece of Marlowe, it is one of the most influential of Elizabethan plays. In it, Marlowe has taken one of the best-known mediaeval legends and given his own interpretation of it, as Goethe was to give his own in F...

A history of English literature is a chronological account of the books which have been written in the English language and their authors. Since literature as a whole grows and changes from generation to generation, in tracing this growth, history...

Literature is a vital record of what men have seen in life, what they have experienced of it, what they have thought and felt about those aspects of it. Fundamentally an expression of life through the medium of language, literature accordingly nee...

Shakespeare is the brightest star in the galaxy of English writers. He excelled in writing all types of drama—Tragedy, Comedy, Romantic and Historical plays. His characterisation, plot construction, and dialogues are of the highest order. Accordin...

William Blake (1757—1827) was an English painter, poet and printmaker. He was born in Soho, London to James and Catherine Blake. He left his school at the age of ten, and was educated at home by his mother. The Bible had a deep influence on Blake,...

This scholarly book on Virginia Woolf’s experimental novels is an outstanding contribution to Virginia Woolf scholarship. The renewed academic venture re-examines the distinctive features of the experimental novels of the novelist gifted with a vi...

The present research work The Western Drama is a pioneer work in European drama and theatre. The subject matter of the book has been divided into two parts. Part One has chapters on theories of drama, theatre and world drama. Part Two has chapters...

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...

This study is an attempt to map out the influence of Eliot, particularly The Waste Land, on modern Indian poetry with special reference to Oriya, Bengali and Assamese poetry. T.S. Eliot influenced and actively helped two generations of English poe...

Research is an enquiry, method is a system and thesis is a style of communication. This implies that research is an effort, method is its systematization and thesis is its recorded manifestation. Thus, any book on research in reality becomes the p...

Julius Caesar is one of the most popular plays of William Shakespeare, read, annotated and played in schools and colleges in India. In India, the first edition of Julius Caesar was written by Sir Mark Hunter, in 1900, from Madras and Hugh Macmilla...

This perceptive study of Shakespeare by Dowden remains unsurpassed. It is not an isolated work but an important landmark in scholarly criticism on Shakespeare. Dowden makes a judicious use of Shakespeare’s intellectual biography and connects the s...

The book contains Blake’s poems and songs. “Poetical Sketches” is the first collection of poetry and prose by William Blake, written between 1769 and 1777. It contains poems like “To Spring”, “To Winter”, “To the Evening Star”, and some songs. “Al...

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, a twentieth century expatriate writer of Polish-Jewish origins and British upbringing, who chose to make India her home since 1951 for more than two decades, has made her mark as writer of novel, story, screenplay, non-fictio...

The idea of the European Renaissance holds a perennial fascination for the Indian academics in general and for the teachers and students of English literature in particular. If a poll were conducted to identify one English writer who represents th...

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...

Harley Granville-Barker’s Prefaces to Shakespeare originally published in five series between 1927 and 1947 covering ten plays are collected in four volumes: Volume I (Hamlet), Volume II (King Lear, Cymbeline, Julius Caesar), Volume III (Antony an...

Papers on Indian Writing in English is in two volumes—first volume deals with poetry while the second volume is on fiction. This is the first volume of the book consisting of twenty papers, dealing exclusively with Indian Poetry in English right f...