English Literature

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...

Contemporary American Literature : Poetry, Fiction, Drama and Criticism offers a cohesive picture of contemporary American Literature which has ass...

A prominent experience of the post-war European generation was the acute inquiry about whether life was intrinsically good or evil, and of the good...

A great novelist and short-story writer of the late nineteenth century, Joseph Conrad remains one of the most important literary figures of English...

The present book primarily aims at tracing influences central to both Ngugi and Anand, especially of Marx, Gandhi and Fanon in the constructions of...

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater is Thomas De Quincey’s autographical account. In it, he describes his opium and alcohol addiction and its eff...

Comparative English Literature, beginning with a wide-ranging discussion of the theoretical dimensions of the comparative study of literature, its ...

There is no denying the fact that the ELT world has changed drastically from the teacher-oriented to a more learner-oriented one. Unfortunately, In...

Commonwealth Literature: A Kaleidoscopic Vision contains critical articles on the well- known writers like Luis-de-Camões, A.D. Hope, A.J.M. Smith,...

Restoration Comedy has been attacked from different quarters for its immorality and profaneness. Eighteenth Century Comedy is very much the product...

V.S. Naipaul is a Trinidad-born Nobel Prize-winning British writer of Indian descent. He is best known for his early comic novels set in Trinidad, ...

The book aims at an evaluation of the novels of Kamala Markandaya in the perspective of class-consciousness embedded in her fictional narrative. Th...

The present book is an outcome of an extended research on the interdisciplinary concept of class conflict. It is an extensive study of the concept ...

Publishing of books is a mark of growth of a particular society. The types and topics of books are a sure indicator of development of sensitivity i...

Dickens offers us in Hard Times (1854) a morally serious content cast in the form of popular entertainment. The principal motive of Hard Times is t...