English Literature

R.K. Narayan’s career as a novelist and short story writer spans almost eight decades from Swami and Friends (1935) to Grandmother’s Tale (1992) un...

The book Myth in Contemporary Indian Fiction in English: A Critical Study theoretically explores the phenomenon of ‘proliferation of mythological n...

W.B. Yeats, an Irish poet who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923, is one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. T.S. El...

Myth-history combine marks the ruling motive of the Contemporary Indian Novel in English. In Amitav Ghosh’s The Circle of Reason, reason makes a fu...

Mysticism in Literature offers a fresh perspective to poetry, relating and balancing the western and eastern approaches. The book specifically look...

The concept of multiculturalism recognizes ethnic diversity within a society. It encourages others to be enlightened by worthwhile contributions to...

Sociolinguistic approach is a vital tool to study the effects of all the aspects of society, including cultural norms, expectations, and context, i...

The book is be a valuable addition to the World of Literary Criticism and of immense utility to those who want to further explore the areas of crit...

This book studies in depth and detail, Mulk Raj Anand’s all major novels which are truly representative of his artistic genius. After a careful eva...

It was September 28, 2004 when the world of literature was stunned to have lost its versatile genius, a pioneer of Indian English fiction, Mulk Raj...

Modernist Approaches to English Fiction is an anthology of twenty-five articles exploring contemporary writing in English from the perspective of t...

Literary theories are indispensable tools for literature meant to interpret and evaluate works of literature with the mind of revealing the in-dept...

Literary theories are indispensable tools for literature meant to interpret and evaluate works of literature with the mind of revealing the in-dept...

Literary theories are indispensable tools for literature meant to interpret and evaluate works of literature with the mind of revealing the in-dept...

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 ...

The study is a painstaking probe into the unfolding of a hitherto ignored thematic and stylistic dimension of modern Indian English Fiction. Beginn...

Modern English Literature: From Chaucer to The Present Day critically examines the famous authors of English Literature spread over a long period, ...

This anthology assembles sixteen essays on different aspects of modern criticism, by some of the best scholars from six countries and four continen...

Modern American literature is too vast and varied to be studied between the covers of a single book. Although limited by space, a sincere effort ha...

There is no poet in English Literature like Milton : so firm in religious conviction, so fierce in politics, so high in poetic flight, so grand in ...

A rare embodiment of the Brahminical virtue of learning, a.K. Ramanujan was one of the most prodigious of creative writers that modern India has pr...

This book is an intensive attempt to analyze the gendered nature of immigrant experience portrayed in the short stories of three highly acclaimed I...

William Shakespeare (B 26 April 1564? 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English lang...

Special Features: enotes.com Middlemarch (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters); Middlemarch (Magill Book Reviews); Middlemarch (Masterplots, Revised ...

Often a question is raised whether the marginalized can speak. It is a fact that the marginalized cannot stay voiceless for long, they have to spea...

Margaret Eleanor Atwood is a versatile artist in the Canadian literature. This book is an assessment of Atwood’s belief about the condition of wome...

The book has extended and widened the implications of the term “New Literatures in English” to include an assessment of New Humanities and other ar...

This book presents a reasonably comprehensive account of the development of the Indian English novel since Independence. The novel during the colon...

G.B. Shaw is a literary Mohican who bestrode modern thought like a Colossus, but he was not a historian in a popular sense. He wrote many plays on ...

Major Barbara, a social satire in three acts, written in 1905 and published in 1907, is the most controversial of Shaw’s works which mocks religiou...

The present anthology entitled Mahesh Dattani: Themes Techniques and Issues is an assortment of scholarly research papers on fresh perspectives and...

Once considered scandalizingly immoral, Flaubert’s exquisite debut novel unsparingly depicts a woman’s gradual corruption and the human mind in sea...

Home has always been a centre of contention, contestation, and construction. It has never been a constant—a truth that contemporary life asserts mo...

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 ...

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 ...

Literary Theory: Textual Application provides a critical and thorough presentation of contemporary theoretical perspectives on the different litera...

This book examines and evaluates the critical position of R.S. Crane, the leader of the Chicago school of formalistic criticism. Crane and his coll...

Literary Criticism in Theory and Practice presents a penetrating analysis of the major theories and practices of all the dominant groups of literar...

Literature is the chief surrogate for faith, or at least this is what a number of thinkers after the eighteenth century have thought. But since lit...

The book contains six interesting and useful essays on Indian English literature. As it contains several essays on Urdu Literature and studies wher...

India has been consistently producing award-winning authors or inspiring other writers to base their works on Indian colour, themes and identity. K...

King Solomon’s Mines, the first English adventure novel set in Africa describes a search of an unexplored region of Africa by a group of adventurer...

Kim, a picaresque novel by Rudyard Kipling, was published serially in McClure’s Magazine, before being published in book form in 1901. The story is...

Indian English literature has established its credentials all over the world. Still litterateurs in this stream have to be continuously appraised a...

As a poet Kamala Das merits a place among the best women poets of the twentieth century. She has made enormous contribution to Indian poetry in Eng...

Just So Stories is a collection of 12 interesting stories with eccentric myths created by Rudyard Kipling. Most of the stories are fanciful revelat...