English Literature

Collected in this anthology are perceptive articles on the major Indian English writers — including novelists, dramatists and poets who have enrich...

Indian English Fiction in the New Millennium has brought about many avenues before the human race. It has opened a new vista of cultural confluence...

The book presents the history of Indian English Fiction which has expanded exponentially during the preceding two decades of 21st century. Besides ...

Gynocriticism refers to the historical study of women writers as a distinct literary tradition. It denotes a criticism that constructs a female fra...

The term ‘Indian drama’ cannot be confined into a definition as it encompasses the entire gamut of Indian culture—the myths, the folklores, the his...

This anthology contains critical articles of the famous Indian regional playwrights like Sudraka, Kalidasa, Rabindranath Tagore, Kuvempu, Gurzada A...

Indian research in English Studies has a long and rich tradition but, unfortunately, it has failed to make any notable impact on the academic world...

Literary prizes form a fascinating interface between literature and society. Established in 1968, the Booker Prize has rapidly become one of the mo...

Literary prizes form a fascinating interface between literature and society. Established in 1968, the Booker Prize has rapidly become one of the mo...

Literary prizes form a fascinating interface between literature and society. Established in 1968, the Booker Prize has rapidly become one of the mo...

The emerging dominance of Indian English writing has made its presence felt in the world of Booker fiction. The Indian recipients of the celebrated...

What is India? Can we understand it? Such questions demand multiple ways of answers and yet, the entire gamut of these answers, in spite of their l...

What we normally understand by culture is a document composed of specific signs, sounds and symbols. Some of these are self reflexive representatio...

No discourse of modern criticism can ever be complete without discussing I.A. Richards whose influence combined with those of T.S. Eliot and F.R. L...

The book aims at an appraisal of R.N. Tagore’s novels in English translations. It highlights his thematic concerns and novelistic technique. The bo...

“From his admirable grasp of both primary and secondary sources, Jonathan Samuel Shaw has produced a well organized work on Shakespeare’s History p...

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

The book is a full-length study on the various issues presented in this novel and aims at solving the difficulties the novel presents to the Indian...

The present book applies the interpretative framework of Gricean Cooperative Principle (1975) to the analysis of conversations in which characters ...

Great Indian Novelists in English: A Critical Exploration, is an anthology of research papers contributed by teachers of English and research schol...

One of Britain’s most interesting and complex contemporary novelists, Graham Greene is eminently readable and hugely topical. A diverse and prolifi...

From the feminist point of view, it is significant that out of all the twenty-five novels, from The Man Within (1929) to The Captain and the Enemy ...

Comparative study of literature in the same language or in different languages through translation seems imperative today as it contributes to crit...

The present anthology contains critical articles on well-known American authors whose works are prescribed widely in the Indian Universities. The a...

The initial fame of Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913 was due to Gitanjali which was published fr...

“…playwright, poet, actor, director, critic, translator and cultural administrator all rolled into one…Karnad is a renaissance man…. Karnad’s celeb...

The present book, Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Critical Study, aims to introduce the readers to the universally acknowledged English poet G.M. Hopkins....

This appreciation of Orwell’s novels has basically been intended to place the novelist in the humanistic perspective. The humanistic urges make inr...

The most important concern of feminist agenda is that women should be ‘visible’ and their voices must be ‘audible’ in the society, and this concern...

Women’s writings in the present world have made a deep impact on the social and cultural ambience. Women’s literature is now perceived as an indivi...

Gandhiji is both a man and an age. He followed Indian traditions and also strengthened them with modern spirit. R.K. Narayan, a writer of the first...

This book helps to explore and discover the emergence and remarkable acceptance of George Bernard Shaw in the world of drama with special emphasis ...

Rituals and festivals form an integral part of every society, whether ancient or modern. Indian English fiction has shown a capacity to accommodate...

Modern Indian Theatre came into being with the establishment of Sangeet Natak Akademi, the National Academy of Music and Dance Drama and the Nation...

The book contains critical articles dealing with the plays of significant Indian English playwrights like Harindranath Chattopadhyaya, Sri Aurobind...

In this comparative study of five Indian English poets the main thrust is on content analysis of their poems with a view to identifying the degree ...

It is the growing relevance of the political thought and vision of George Orwell in the 21st century when the world is at eternal war with itself i...

“It is by now clear that a feminist renaissance is under way,” remarked Adrienne Rich, the great American poet and feminist. Contemporary feminist ...

Feminism is a rapidly developing critical ideology of great promise. It has evolved into a philosophy encompassing diverse fields of human activity...

Feminist Approaches to Literature: Vistas and Perspectives offers an edited collection of discourses, which are specifically feminist in content, s...

Most urban people are familiar with the word Feminism, but the understanding of it remains vague and there is a general rejection of its relevance ...

Shashi Deshpande, born in 1938 at Dharwad, Karnataka, is the daughter of renowned Kannada dramatist and Sanskrit scholar Late Adya Rangachar Shrira...

Feminism in Modern English Drama explores the emergence of the New Woman in the plays of Bernard Shaw, Galsworthy and Granville Barker and how thei...

Beginning with a comprehensive survey of feminism’s most important themes and concerns and providing a critical evaluation of the various aspects o...

Feminism and Gender Discourse: A Revisioning aims to showcase various discussions related to gender discourse, be it through fiction, drama, or poe...

The life and image of women has changed immensely. The early woman was intensely occupied from dawn to dusk in keeping the tribe alive. Today too, ...

“A woman is physically, emotionally and psychologically different from man. Let her build a world of her own and let man lend her a hand to do so.”...

The book, Female Voices in Keats's Poetry studies some major women figures in John Keats's poetry in the light of recent criticism of sexual ambigu...