English Literature

The book studies the theme of quest in T.S. Eliot’s drama, showing how religious and symbolic implications, both oriental and occidental, have a di...

T.S. Eliot remains one of the most widely read poets of the 20th century, and perhaps the greatest. There has, however, been quite a dearth of crit...

At a time when literary criticism is trying to go green, this anthology joins the distinguished list of anthologies published earlier and would ser...

E.M. Forster's celebrated novel A Passage to India is prescribed in the syllabus of almost all the universities in India, at both the undergraduate...

Since the time of its publication in 1924 E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India, often referred to as the novelist’s piece de resistance, has drawn mar...

A Passage to India, E.M. Forster’s masterpiece, which has remained consistently popular and widely studied in India for eight decades, has also eme...

Dubliners is one of the most magnificent short story collections in the English language. The manuscript was sent to the English publisher, Grant R...

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 o...

Do What Matters Most: Simplify Your Overload skillfully plows through the current 95 per cent chaos of nonsense and information overload that is ov...

Dalit literature defies inequality, injustice, subjugation, and marginalization; and sows the seeds of revulsion, resistance, and revolution in hum...

Travel writings are considered as a genre of literature. Travelogues are the reproductions and duplications of contemporary socio-social and ethnic...

In this book, the author analyses Lawrence’s ideas and visions in the perspective of New Historicism, and shows how these ideas and visions are use...

Sons and Lovers, D.H. Lawrence’s powerful and passionate novel is regarded as one of the greatest autobiographical novels of the twentieth century....

The book presents an exhaustive analysis of texts prescribed for P.G. studies in India and abroad. It contains incisive accounts and surveys on Rec...

Indian Writing in English has undoubtedly acquired its own independent identity; it no more remains mere imitative and derivative. Its long journey...

Cultural Identity in Transition analyses the challenges that globalisation and modernisation have brought to cultural identity in recent years. Thi...

Kamala Markandaya, an Indian English novelist, is known for writing about cultural clash between Indian urban and rural societies. She belonged to ...

Poetry and Poetics are integrally related. The former is an art based on emotions, whereas the latter is a science evaluating poetry. So long their...

Poetry and Poetics are integrally related. The former is an art based on emotions, whereas the latter is a science evaluating poetry. So long their...

Poetry and Poetics are integrally related. The former is an art based on emotions, whereas the latter is a science evaluating poetry. So long their...

Critical Theories: Indian and Western presents a reasonably comprehensive account of the basic concepts in Indian and Western literary criticism. T...

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s magnum opus The Scarlet Letter is a romantic work of fiction in a historical setting. Set in 17th century Puritan Boston, Mas...

The essays in this anthology focus on many aspects of Indian Fiction in English. It seeks to probe, discuss and analyse the issues arising out of t...

With Kiran Desai the ‘fine tradition’ of Indian Booker Prize winners continues. Like her mother Anita Desai, Kiran Desai emerges as a gifted writer...

Anita Desai and her novels have been an enigma for decades. Scholars, critics, researchers and students have never stopped marvelling about suprema...

Anita Desai and her novels have been an enigma for decades. Scholars, critics, researchers and students have never stopped marvelling about suprema...

Anita Desai and her novels have been an enigma for decades. Scholars, critics, researchers and students have never stopped marvelling about suprema...

The present book contains a varied selection of essays ventured upon as exercises in critical evaluation of texts that are relevant in the existent...

Critical Response to Indian Fiction in English contains a series of critical articles, each devoted to a description as simple and straightforward ...

The book is a panorama of practical criticism so far as Indian English Literature is concerned. The chapters explore divergent critical perspective...

Wherever there are people there will be a literature. A literature is the record of human experience, and people have always been impelled to write...

A fascinating and evocative study of love, sexual desire, and personal discovery, Twelfth Night stands at the summit of Shakespeare’s comic vision,...

The book Critical Essays on Post-Colonial Literature attempts to analyze Postcolonial poetry, Caribbean poetry, Indian english poetry, Canadian fic...

Indian English has been universally accepted as a unique style of discourse with its own nuances, giving expression to Indian multiculturalism in t...

In the context of traditional Hindu society, Dalit status has often been historically associated with occupations considered ritually impure, such ...

Critical Essays on D.H. Lawrence: In Honour of Dr. R.K. Sinha is a humble effort to present a vital, complex, multifaceted, original and provocativ...

Critical Approaches to Fiction is designed to offer the post-graduate student, and the general reader, a comprehensive cross-section of some of the...

In the past few years much theoretical debate has explored several cultural issues in the Anglophone Caribbean, focusing on the central experience ...

The human world is perched at an exciting stage of growth that has provided us with a plethora of consumer goods. However, the much-desired mental ...

The book attempts to analyse the shifts in perspectives in the narrative framework of contemporary popular Malayalam cinema as a result of the impa...

Contemporary Indian Writings in English is a unique collection of some scholarly essays on the works of some eminent Indian Writers in English. Thi...

Contemporary Indian writing in English is such a vast and variegated sphere today that no single anthology could claim to be representative of, or ...

Contemporary Indian Women Novelists in English: New Perspectives attempts to study and analyse some prominent Indian women novelists whose contribu...

Contemporary Indian English Poetry: Comparing Male and Female Voices is a detailed exposition of the multiple dimensions of creativity in men and w...

The book is a commentary on Indian dramatic theory and some selected contemporary Indian plays. Drama is an active literary art form. Although film...

The book expresses contemporary consciousness in different genres of English literature from multi-functional perspective. The Nowhere Man brings t...

This compilation of critical essays is an outcome of various national seminars and conferences held in recent times by the English Departments of U...