English Literature

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 ...

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...

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...

• A Compendium of Literature in English, written in the United Kingdom, the Continent, America, Australia, New Zealand, Africa, the West Indies, South Asia and other countries of the Commonwealth. • Critical introduction to all important authors a...

The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore – Volume 7 is a thought-provoking collection of Tagore's lectures and addresses, offering profound insights into various facets of human experience, culture, and society. This volume begins with “Interna...

Book Summary of A History The Book Has A Vide Coverage And Critically Surveys The World Famous Authors In English Literature Spread Over A Long Period.The Book Will Be Found Of Great Interest By The Students Of English Literature, Researchers And ...

With this book an effort has been made to reassert that Anglo-Indian novel is an established genre today and Indian artists can be ranked with British and American novelists. The book gives a comprehensive view of artistic presentation of characte...

This book presents a collection of essays and research papers on Indian English Poetry and Fiction. It has been classified in two sections. Section A comprises essays on poets such as Toru Dutt, Aurobindo Ghose, Krishna Srinivas and Kamala Das. Se...

To make Shakespeare comprehensible to the eager student is a challenging task and this is what the present work sets out to do. It provides the reader with the life and short notes on the works of Shakespeare as well as his socio-political and lit...

Shakespeare is widely acknowledged as the greatest English dramatist and poet. Among the 37 plays that he wrote are included tragedies, comedies and histories. His plays have been translated into 90 languages and have inspired poets, novelists, pa...

The present anthology of critical essays on Twentieth Century English Literature seeks to put together the body of writing — criticism, poetry, fiction, short-story, — in England, America, Australia, Africa and India in the present age, to discove...

Study of literature is the study of man’s struggles and aspirations, which in the twentieth century context have come to assume across the world a striking similarity in both form and content, irrespective of the disparate geographical, political,...

This book studies Thomas Hardy’s portrayal of women in the Victorian period in England, still struggling for their essential human rights. Victorian women were willing to struggle for emancipation, even if it meant dying for it. They had to live u...

The 1980’s and after has created a typical post-modern anxiety with the advent of Salman Rushdie as an influential diaspora writer. This book is conceptualized around a series of topics like post-modern anxiety, identity, politics, national and se...

A.K. Ramanujan represents the quintessential Indian English poet engaged in a relentless quest for self in the welter of tradition and contemporary reality as well as that for a well-adapted poetic idiom. His poetry refracts the essential Indian s...

Mulk Raj Anand, the doyen of Indian English fiction, whose writing career spanned nearly four decades, has carved out a permanent niche in the literary world. Anand’s writings are marked by his fine perception of the Indian ethos, the sinister for...

Tagore’s English writings—originals and translations—have not received the attention that they deserve. The purpose of this edition is to make the English writings of Tagore available to the widest possible range of readers interested in the writi...

Tagore’s English writings—originals and translations—have not received the attention that they deserve. The purpose of this edition is to make the English writings of Tagore available to the widest possible range of readers interested in the writi...

Tagore’s English writings—originals and translations—have not received the attention that they deserve. The purpose of this edition is to make the English writings of Tagore available to the widest possible range of readers interested in the writi...

Tagore’s English writings—originals and translations—have not received the attention that they deserve. The purpose of this edition is to make the English writings of Tagore available to the widest possible range of readers interested in the writi...

Tagore’s English writings—originals and translations—have not received the attention that they deserve. The purpose of this edition is to make the English writings of Tagore available to the widest possible range of readers interested in the writi...

Tagore’s English writings—originals and translations—have not received the attention that they deserve. The purpose of this edition is to make the English writings of Tagore available to the widest possible range of readers interested in the writi...

Tagore’s English writings—originals and translations—have not received the attention that they deserve. The purpose of this edition is to make the English writings of Tagore available to the widest possible range of readers interested in the writi...

Tagore’s English writings—originals and translations—have not received the attention that they deserve. The purpose of this edition is to make the English writings of Tagore available to the widest possible range of readers interested in the writi...

During the last few centuries women writers have considerably widened and deepened the areas of human experience—with their sharp, feminine perception of life successfully transmuted into verbal artifact. The world body of literature in English wo...

During the last few centuries women writers have considerably widened and deepened the areas of human experience with their sharp, feminine perception of life, successfully transmuted into verbal artifact. The world body of literature in English w...

During the last few centuries women writers have considerably widened and deepened the areas of human experience,—with their sharp, feminine perception of life successfully transmuted into verbal artifact. The world body of literature in English w...

British Literature refers to literature associated with the United Kingdom along with that of Isles of Man and Channel Islands. For purposes of focused study, it has been divided into Middle Ages, Elizabethan period, Restoration era, Romantic peri...

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 English language possesses. Framed around a sea voyage from Bombay to London, the action concentrates on ...

Modern Linguistics that began in the form of philology towards the end of the eighteenth century is now much wider in scope. This book extensively deals with its two most important branches: Descriptive Linguistics and Historical Linguistics. The ...

William Shakespeare (B 26 April 1564? 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's National poet and the "Bard...

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Dr. Samuel Johnson's magnum opus, Lives of the English Poets, is such a work as posterity will not willingly let die. Though written more than 200 years ago (1777-81), the Lives has lost neither its charm for the general reader of the present age ...

Kipling's allegory, The Jungle Books, set in India and filled with high adventure and extraordinary characters that touch both our intellect and our emotions, is an unforgettable mythic tale of a boy Mowgli, the fearless man-cub, looking for where...

Indian English Literature has established its credentials all over the world. Still some pointed posers concerning the impact of multiculturality and the choice of English as a medium on the warp and woof of Indian English literature have to be co...

Indian Literature in English incorporates Indian themes and experience in a framework that is a blend of Indian and Western aesthetics. This often confronts creative writers with a series of difficult choices. Involved in an intractable tight rope...

Indian fiction in English now enjoys a major presence across the world. From its humble beginnings in the thirties it has come a long way to emerge as a serious contender to some of the most coveted literary prizes in the world. In terms of popula...

This book studies Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms in the light of his aesthetic principles and major themes. It scrutinizes its symbolistic dimensions and stylistic excellence while keeping an undeviating focus on the poignant classic of love in th...

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...

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...

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...

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...

• A Compendium of Literature in English, written in the United Kingdom, the Continent, America, Australia, New Zealand, Africa, the West Indies, South Asia and other countries of the Commonwealth. • Critical introduction to all important authors a...

• A Compendium of Literature in English, written in the United Kingdom, the Continent, America, Australia, New Zealand, Africa, the West Indies, South Asia and other countries of the Commonwealth. • Critical introduction to all important authors a...

• A Compendium of Literature in English, written in the United Kingdom, the Continent, America, Australia, New Zealand, Africa, the West Indies, South Asia and other countries of the Commonwealth. • Critical introduction to all important authors a...

• A Compendium of Literature in English, written in the United Kingdom, the Continent, America, Australia, New Zealand, Africa, the West Indies, South Asia and other countries of the Commonwealth. • Critical introduction to all important authors a...

• A Compendium of Literature in English, written in the United Kingdom, the Continent, America, Australia, New Zealand, Africa, the West Indies, South Asia and other countries of the Commonwealth. • Critical introduction to all important authors a...

• A Compendium of Literature in English, written in the United Kingdom, the Continent, America, Australia, New Zealand, Africa, the West Indies, South Asia and other countries of the Commonwealth. • Critical introduction to all important authors a...