English Literature

About the Book A jargon-free guide to the key terms, concepts, and theoretical approaches to contemporary popular fiction Key Concepts in Contempor...

Keshab Chandra Sen (1838–84) was one of the most powerful and controversial figures in nineteenth-century Bengal. A religious leader and social ref...

About the Book Kenneth Tynan (1927-1980) lived one of the most intriguing theatre lives of his century. A brilliant writer, critic and agent provoc...

About the Book In 1992 when a Dalit woman left the convent and wrote her autobiography, the Tamil publishing industry found her language unacceptab...

About the Book Dominique Edd 's gripping novel tells the story of the doomed Jann family as they plot against one another for revenge and power. Ka...

Savitri Ammal's stories are about women like herself living in upper-caste households in Madras in the early part of the twentieth century. Publish...

About the Book Franz Kafka is one of the most widely taught, and read, writers in world literature. Readers encountering texts like 'The Metamorpho...

About the Book Franz Kafka is among the most intriguing and influential writers of the last century. During his lifetime he worked as a civil serva...

About the Book This is a basic, short guide that helps students make the transition to writing at college or university as simple as possible, prov...

About the Book This work is an original and pioneering exploration of not only the social history of the subcontinent but also of performance and p...

This edition of one of Shakespeare's best known and most frequently performed plays argues for Julius Caesar as a new kind of political play, a rad...

About the Book Written in an easy-to-read, accessible style by teachers with years of classroom experience, Masterwork Studies are guides to the li...

For the first time, Dalits are writing about their lives themselves. They have long been written about by others, anthropologists, historians and n...

About the Book Written by two of the world's leading Milton scholars, widely praised as "illuminating" (Times Literary Supplement), "seamlessly wri...

Table Of Contents: Series Editor's ForewordPreface to the Paperback EditionAcknowledgmentsAbbreviations of Works CitedIntroduction: Why Does Virag ...

About the Book This is a book about translation and literary influence. It takes as its subject Spain's most important contemporary novelist, Javie...

About the Book Women novelists in India who 'use' English to write fiction are, increasingly, gaining international recognition for their work. Unf...

Jane Austen is undoubtedly one of the finest English novelists: she paints on a small canvas, but with the most exquisitely detailed touch. Her nov...

About the Book James Joyce is one of the greatest writers in English. His first book, A Portrait of the Artist as A Young Man laid down the templat...

About the Book While Mahatma Gandhi is hailed across the world as a champion of humanity and nonviolent struggle, the struggles of the woman who ac...

About the Book This volume, part of the the 21st-Century Oxford Authors series, presents all of the surviving writings of Isaac Rosenberg (1890-191...

About the Book Is English changing? To what degree is it changing? Is this change good or bad? In answering these questions, Is English Changing? p...

About the Book Iris Murdoch: The Retrospective Fiction traces the preoccupation in Murdoch's fiction with the way the past makes its mark upon us, ...

About the Book Introducing Pragmatics in Use is a lively and accessible introduction to pragmatics which both covers theory and applies it to real ...

About the Book M.A.K. Halliday (1925–2018) was the founder of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) and, undoubtedly, one of the most influential...

About the Book Introducing English Grammar introduces readers to the methodology and terminology needed to analyse English sentences. The approach...

About the Book Introducing Course Design in English for Specific Purposes is an accessible and practical introduction to the theory and practice of...

The book serves as a comprehensive guide spanning seven chapters and begins with a broad introduction to audiovisual translation (AVT). Further cha...

Into The Twilight of Sanskrit Court Poetry The Sena Salon of Bengal and Beyond by Jesse Ross Knutson, 9382579443, 9789382579441, Yoda Press

About the Book Interpreting Motion presents an integrated perspective on how language structures constrain concepts of motion and how the world sha...

About the Book By turns astonishing, fierce, and tender, these seven plays by Latina-American dramatist Caridad Svich highlight more than two decad...

About the Book A detailed examination of Proverbs 1-9, an early Jewish poetic work. Stuart Weeks incorporates studies of literature from ancient Eg...

About the Book Innovations and Challenges in Grammar traces the history of common understandings of what grammar is and where it came from to demon...

About the Book This book discusses the question of subjectivity in modern Indian literature using some of the most influential literary texts of th...

This book reveals English as culture, politics, lifestyle and social change in the context of Indian women. English as a symbol of modernity in In...

About the Book Dr L.M. Singhvi (1931-2007) was an eminent Indian jurist, a distinguished parliamentarian, a celebrated statesman, an able administr...

Like homeless wanderers, Indo-English women writers are constantly yearning for a home. Be it a nation, a house, a community, an identity- to call ...

About the Book One of the most dynamic feminist movements in the world, Indian feminisms are seldom given the recognition they deserve, not only fo...

When the monsoon rains come it’s not just us mere mortals who get to join in the celebration. The heavenly bodies have a little party of their own ...

The modern Indian woman – equal to her male counterpart in every aspect of life, be it education, career, intellect, ambition, and the rest – has n...

About the Book Kuno, a male nurse in a Swiss retirement home, has a new inmate: his father. In the confines of their new home, the pair does someth...

About the Book In this new book Zygmunt Bauman and Riccardo Mazzeo examine the contentious issue of the relation between literature (and the arts i...

About the Book In Our Own Words guides upper-intermediate to advanced students through the writing process and features engaging essays by other st...

About the Book Deborah Schiffrin looks at two important tasks of language--presenting 'who' we are talking about (the referent) and 'what happened'...

About the Book Lutz Seiler grew up in the former East Germany and has lived most of his life outside Berlin. His poems, not surprisingly, are works...