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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Pride and Prejudice is an outstanding English novel that shows Jane Austen at the height of her writing powers. Throughout the novel, the main vehicle of characterization, comedy, and satire is dialogue; narration and descriptions are given largel...

English language plays a crucial role for any person, group of people or organization in achieving excellence. The language is today well established as the lingua franca of the modern world, and it is breaking new grounds, continually. Over the c...

The University Grants Commission (UGC) conducts National Eligibility Test (NET) on various subjects every year, in June and December. There are three papers: Paper 1 which is common to all candidates is a general paper on teaching and research apt...

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...

Applied linguistics is an interdisciplinary field of study that identifies, investigates and provides solutions to language-related real-life problems. As a branch of linguistics it is concerned with practical applications of language studies, wit...

“A memorable book. The best that Anita Desai has written.” —Paul Bailey in the Evening Standard (about In Custody) “The beauty of In Custody is that what seems to be a story of inevitable tragedies turns out to be a tale of triumph over these trag...

The Shadow Lines is a highly innovative, complex and celebrated novel of Amitav Ghosh. Published in 1988, it received the prestigious Sahitya Academy Award in the following year. Not only literary critics but also some noted litterateurs have accl...

Novel is arguably the most important genre of English literature. According to Jane Austen, the greatest powers of the mind are displayed in the novel. In fact, the whole body of literature is broadly categorised into (i) fiction—something that is...

Neuropsychologists are trained to assess Alzheimer’s disease and make differential diagnosis, especially differentiating between major depression and ad. The National Institute on aging (Nia) is the lead agency for ad research at the national inst...

Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children, ever since its publication in 1980, has been considered an ingenious piece of literary art and a trendsetter in the field of Indian fiction in English. The stupendous success of this novel broke all previous r...

Paradise Lost & Regained: A Modern Prose Translation is the first of its kind by an Indian scholar. It offers a combined picture of both parts of the English epic to help students understand Milton’s vision of the Christian myth and doctrine. ...

In the modern or postmodern world, James Joyce is not only a stupendous writer but also a definer of the genre. His works are considered essential readings within and beyond the academic mural. James Joyce: Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a...

The book combines general rules of English language for common users as well as complex issues for expert philologists. It contains the chief peculiarities of English language and delineates the growth and significance of those features in its str...

Anglophone Literature from Northeast India and Women’s Writing examines the literary works published in English that gauge the society, culture, norms and values of the region. The themes analysed fall within the larger framework of Indian literat...

This edition contains all the 154 sonnets of Shakespeare with a critical appreciation of each for the benefit of all the University and College students and teachers of India and possibly of other countries as well. This is the first of its kind i...

The present book is an in-depth critical study of the modern American classic, Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1952 and the Nobel Prize in 1954. This study, while keeping the novel under the critical len...

As English has evolved from Latin, Greek, Roman, etc. over centuries, assimilating their usages, there are many asymmetries and paradoxes, which are very interesting to read: (i) We drive in a parkway and park in a driveway. (ii) When we transpor...

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...

This is the first ever comprehensive annotated bibliography on Indian English fiction. It is intended to be a primary source book to be used by the teachers and scholars as well. This would be a guide book for all young scholars who venture into t...

William Shakespeare is considered the best poet and dramatist of all ages. His tragic drama Othello has been popular since its first performance at the beginning of the seventeenth century, with both the audience and the readers. The play is still...

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...

King Lear is one of the most difficult plays of Shakespeare. It takes ordinary jealousies, demand for love, sibling rivalries, desire for money and power, and petty cruelties to the extreme on one hand and portrays old age in all its vulnerability...

Every time Shakespeare is read or taught one faces a challenge: how to make him comprehensible to the eager student. This is what the present work daringly sets out to do. It provides the reader with biographical, socio-political and the literary ...

Every time Shakespeare is read or taught one faces a challenge: how to make him comprehensible to the eager student. This is what the present work daringly sets out to do. It provides the reader with biographical, socio-political and the literary ...

As You Like It has been acclaimed as the best of the Golden Comedies of Shakespeare. It brings together the elements of romance and pastoralism to form an inextricable blend that was possible only for him. The present study aims at making the text...