English Literature

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...

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 ...

The present critical anthology on Indian-English drama is a welcome addition to the ever-increasing repertoire of the academic world. It contains s...

This is a critical study on Paul Scott’s Novels. It explores in depth the novelist’s ‘private’ art of writing the novel as an image, symbol or an e...

Patrick White: Critical Issues celebrates Patrick White’s birth centenary year 2012. Revisiting White years after his death suggests an endless int...

Why looking into a historical event such as the Partition of India, relying on fiction? It is a fact that novelists, even before historians, have c...

Papers on Indian Writing in English is in two volumes—first volume deals with poetry while the second volume is on fiction. This is the first volum...

Papers on Indian Writing in English is in two volumes—first volume deals with poetry while the second volume is on fiction. This is the first volum...

Papers on Indian Writing in English is in two volumes—first volume deals with poetry while the second volume is on fiction. This is the first volum...

One of the best-known works of Bradley, the present volume consists of lectures delivered during the author’s tenure of the Chair of Poetry (1901-1...

Off the Line: Transgression and Its Representation in Literature and Culture consists of twenty-four articles expressing the views and perspectives...

The book is a pioneering study of its kind, Chronologically examining the novels of Anita Desai mostly from a feminist point of view. The book exce...

Walker Percy was an American Southern author whose interests included philosophy and semiotics. He is best known for his philosophical novels set i...