English Literature

Ruskin Bond is the most popular Indian English novelist and short-story writer, though he has not received the acclaim he deserved from the critics...

Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by Shakespeare early in his career between 1591-1595 about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimat...

Revisiting W.B. Yeats’s World and Art is a well-researched book occasioned by the poet’s 150th birth anniversary in 2015. This book is meant to be ...

The tragedies of Shakespeare have been commented upon countless times. Revisiting Shakespeare’s Tragedies reveals the extent to which Shakespeare’s...

Mahesh Dattani is a well-known Indian director, actor and the first playwright in English to be awarded the Sahitya Akademi award. His highly accla...

The Return of the Native, both powerful and sombre, is considered to be the most representative of Hardy s novels. It is set in Egdon Heath whose l...

Since Simone de Beauvoir first proclaimed that ‘One is not born a woman, one becomes one’, the study of gender has become one of the most significa...

The patriarch involves all the instincts of fatherly dominance that creates an environment where man emerges as institution, hegemony, power, and t...

The idea of the European Renaissance holds a perennial fascination for the Indian academics in general and for the teachers and students of English...

This book is a collection of research articles under the broader theme of Shakespeare in the 21st Century, critically analysing the various aspects...

The present book takes a fresh look at gender and feminist perspectives through the novels of the three women writers across the globe, namely Toni...

The book presents a collection of research papers on Indian English literature that are wide ranging in nature, dealing with fiction, poetry, drama...

The book presents a collection of papers that are wide ranging not only in the choice of authors—two of the Big Trio, R.K. Narayan and Raja Rao on ...

Exploring the postcolonial terrain where ‘dislocation and relocation intertwine, where hope and disillusionment converge, where violence erupts and...

This book presents empirical knowledge of the author, in wide and varied fields of human behaviour, acquired over six decades of his life. In our d...

Raja Rao: A Study of His Novels represents Raja Rao’s fictional world from a refreshingly new perspective. It offers a comprehensive account of the...

The book places a body of women’s fiction against the ideological territory of radical feminism with a firm belief in its social, political and int...

Rabindranath Tagore’s long life (1861-1941) was marked by ceaseless and torrential flow of creativity manifested in the richness and variety of all...

Love, an emotional component par excellence, is perhaps at the core of human life and experience. To Rabindranath Tagore, it is more than divine an...

If poetry is best of words, best of thoughts and best imagination, arranged in the best possible form and order of expression, Rabindranath Tagore:...

The present volume comprises complete translations of two important collections of Tagore’s essays on literature: Sāhityer Pathe and Sāhityer Svarū...

To study Rabindranath Tagore is to be christened with the excellence of inwardness. An ardent apostle of the endless excellence of man, Tagore is m...

In the mid-thirties, R.S. Crane, the pivotal critic of the Chicago School, launched a crusade to save the humanities from scientism as much as from...

Exploring a huge variety of texts written in English from India and Canada, the eighteen essays contained in the present anthology belong to curren...

The Primer of Greek Literature, originally published in 1877, is, till date, the finest introduction to the literary world of the Greeks. The book ...

Harley Granville-Barker’s Prefaces to Shakespeare originally published in five series between 1927 and 1947 covering ten plays are collected in fou...

Harley Granville-Barker’s Prefaces to Shakespeare originally published in five series between 1927 and 1947 covering ten plays are collected in fou...

Harley Granville-Barker’s Prefaces to Shakespeare originally published in five series between 1927 and 1947 covering ten plays are collected in fou...

Harley Granville-Barker’s Prefaces to Shakespeare originally published in five series between 1927 and 1947 covering ten plays are collected in fou...

Harley Granville-Barker’s Prefaces to Shakespeare originally published in five series between 1927 and 1947 covering ten plays are collected in fou...

Post-modernism with its self-contradictory implications, its self-conscious deployment of trickery playfulness and unexplained supernaturalism, its...

In almost all the literatures of the world, the women writers are transcending the boundaries and making their presence felt on the international s...

This anthology offers new modes of response in the theory and practice of postcoloniality. While taking stock of the postcolonial theoretical const...

V.S. Naipaul is one of the most celebrated names in English fiction today. In his fiction, Naipaul presents a subtle and sensitive account of the p...

During the post-Independence period Indian masculinity has undergone a major transformation. But this new psychological and social phenomenon has n...

Although a relatively new force in academic circles, postcolonialism has rapidly expanded its conceptual reach over recent years so that it now dep...

This book offers provocative new readings of animal narratives that have changed the way we think about animals, writing and postcoloniality. It is...

Bibliographical research in poetry composed in and around the years of the First World War reveals that hundreds of British men (both civilians and...

Poetic Theory and Practice of T.S. Eliot is a comprehensive study of the whole oeuvre of T.S. Eliot—his poetry, criticism, drama, and social writin...

Charles Dickens (1812--1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's most memorable fictional characters and is gen...

Phonetics is a branch of linguistics that comprises the study of the sounds of human speech. It is concerned with the physical properties of speech...

Philip Larkin (1992-1985) is today acclaimed as a British national cultural icon. Historically a “Movementeer,” Larkin followed the “pleasure princ...

The contemporary world, now a global village, houses people having distinct ethnic, racial, and casteist affiliations. In a seemingly multicultural...

Perspectives on Indian English Literature are too vast and varied to be completely evaluated between the covers of a single book. The present volum...

Perspectives on Gulliver’s Travels is meant to be a useful guide for students as well as teachers. It embraces the entire spectrum of the various a...

Philosophical speculations about the origin of poetry and the nature and function of criticism have engaged the attention of poets and critics for ...