English Literature

Shobhaa De has been given epithets like ‘Porn Queen’, ‘Pulp Pasha’ and ‘Vatsyayani’ because the general impression and critical opinion about her fiction is that it is soft porno. It is true that she writes about sexuality and sexual behaviour, bu...

Indian Ethos in Indian English Fictions reflects the spirit of Indian soul which interweaves the pluralism of India. Basically the understanding of pan-Indian identity is referred to in the book through the Indian ethos in Indian English fictions....

Nissim Ezekiel was a prominent Indian poet. He was among the foundational figures in postcolonial India’s literary history. He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1983 for his poetry collection, “Latter-Day Psalms.” It appears that the meanin...

The present book traces the background to Indian English women’s fiction, excluding the translated texts, from the late nineteenth century novels of Toru Dutt, Krupabai Satthianadhan, and Shevantibai M. Nikambe. Almost all the twentieth century ma...

The essays in the Volume are by very established as well as up-coming scholars and the readers will realise the substantial values of the insights that the pieces contain. Most anthologies published carry a great load of articles on fiction writer...

It is a matter of pleasure and pride to note that Indian English Literature has been making conspicuous progress in recent years. While some celebrated Indian novelists like Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy, Kiran Desai and Aravind Adiga have won the...

In recent years, the Indian English Literature has made conspicuous progress in all its forms, mainly in fiction and poetry. Many Indian English writers have won laurels, awards, appreciation and wide readership in India and abroad in the recent p...

In recent years, the Indian English Literature has made conspicuous progress in all its forms, mainly in fiction and poetry. The present anthology aims at presenting an in-depth study of nineteen authors who are both established as well as upcomin...

In recent years, the Indian English Literature has made conspicuous progress in all its forms, mainly in fiction and poetry. The present anthology aims at presenting an in-depth study of twenty-one authors who are both established as well as upcom...

The anthology contains perceptive articles on the three major forms of Indian English Literature: poetry, fiction and drama. As usual fiction enjoys a lion’s share. The writers discussed in this anthology include poets like Sri Aurobindo, Sarojini...

Gathered in this collection are articles on Chamarasa, Jai Shankar Prasad, Vivekananda, Nissim Ezekiel, Kamala Das, Jayanta Mahapatra, Vijay Tendulkar, R.K. Narayan, Manohar Malgonkar, Kamala Markandaya, Shashi Deshpande, Ruskin Bond, Arun Joshi, ...

Collected in this anthology are perceptive articles on the major Indian English writers — including novelists, dramatists and poets who have enriched the realm of letters. The thematic concerns of these writers range from the mythical to the munda...

In recent years, the Indian English Literature has made conspicuous progress in all its forms, mainly in fiction and poetry. The present anthology aims at presenting an in-depth study of nineteen authors who are both established as well as upcomin...

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 by winning prestigious Booker Prizes for The Inheritance of Loss written by Kiran Desai, and The Wh...

The book presents the history of Indian English Fiction which has expanded exponentially during the preceding two decades of 21st century. Besides documenting more than 1400 novels published during this period, it comments on and categorizes aroun...

The term ‘Indian drama’ cannot be confined into a definition as it encompasses the entire gamut of Indian culture—the myths, the folklores, the history and the ethos of the country. Drama in India is as old as its customs, starting right from the ...

This anthology contains critical articles of the famous Indian regional playwrights like Sudraka, Kalidasa, Rabindranath Tagore, Kuvempu, Gurzada Apparao, Dwijendra Lal Roy, Mohan Rakesh, Badal Sircar, Vijay Tendulkar, R. Parthasarathy, Utpal Dutt...

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. This is largely due to the fact that most of the Indian doctoral dissertations in English studies ...

Literary prizes form a fascinating interface between literature and society. Established in 1968, the Booker Prize has rapidly become one of the most prestigious and glamorous literary prizes in the English speaking world. Unlike the Nobel Prize, ...

Literary prizes form a fascinating interface between literature and society. Established in 1968, the Booker Prize has rapidly become one of the most prestigious and glamorous literary prizes in the English speaking world. Unlike the Nobel Prize, ...

Literary prizes form a fascinating interface between literature and society. Established in 1968, the Booker Prize has rapidly become one of the most prestigious and glamorous literary prizes in the English speaking world. Unlike the Nobel Prize, ...

The emerging dominance of Indian English writing has made its presence felt in the world of Booker fiction. The Indian recipients of the celebrated Man Booker Prize have rendered kaleidoscopic narrations about their own nation weaving together fac...

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 lucid descriptions and narratives, may fail to define India satisfactorily nor help us understand the...

Twentieth Century English Literature was shaped to a great extent by the genius of T.S. Eliot. His towering personality illuminates the major genres of English Literature. No study of the early twentieth century British canonical literature is pos...

What we normally understand by culture is a document composed of specific signs, sounds and symbols. Some of these are self reflexive representations, consciously and deliberately conceived. Reading into representations we can improve our culture ...

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. Leavis paved the way for the development of New Criticism. The present work stems from the need to of...

The book aims at an appraisal of R.N. Tagore’s novels in English translations. It highlights his thematic concerns and novelistic technique. The book also provides a comprehensive and authentic account of his literary genius and his vision of the ...

“From his admirable grasp of both primary and secondary sources, Jonathan Samuel Shaw has produced a well organized work on Shakespeare’s History plays which throws new lights on several problems of Elizabethan Literature. Furthermore, the author…...

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 students. The novel is studied and analysed from various angles and its relation with other works o...

The present book applies the interpretative framework of Gricean Cooperative Principle (1975) to the analysis of conversations in which characters in novels flout, violate, suspend, infringe, and opt out of four Maxims of Cooperative Principle. He...

Great Indian Novelists in English: A Critical Exploration, is an anthology of research papers contributed by teachers of English and research scholars hailing from different parts of India. It contains papers on the novelists of Indian Writing in ...

One of Britain’s most interesting and complex contemporary novelists, Graham Greene is eminently readable and hugely topical. A diverse and prolific writer, he has also written poetry, children’s books, film scripts, political reportage and travel...

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 (1988) written by Graham Greene, none is endowed with a memorable female protagonist. Greeneland ass...

Comparative study of literature in the same language or in different languages through translation seems imperative today as it contributes to critical scholarship and revaluation of literature. Such studies with their multilingual range not only ...

The present anthology contains critical articles on well-known American authors whose works are prescribed widely in the Indian Universities. The authors studied in this book are Edgar Allen Poe, Cleanth Brooks, Henry James, Arthur Miller, Walt Wh...

“…playwright, poet, actor, director, critic, translator and cultural administrator all rolled into one…Karnad is a renaissance man…. Karnad’s celebrity is based on decades of prolific and consistent output....”— India Today “...there have been a g...

The present book, Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Critical Study, aims to introduce the readers to the universally acknowledged English poet G.M. Hopkins. Although not recognized in his times, his popularity has increased with the passing of years and to...

This appreciation of Orwell’s novels has basically been intended to place the novelist in the humanistic perspective. The humanistic urges make inroads into the human psyche which show up his assertion of faith in the human endeavour. The humanist...

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 gets a proper place in Shashi Deshpande’s fictional works as she raises the issues of women’s inner...

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 individual entity, bringing women’s consciousness, experiences and values in the act of reading. Literatur...

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 generation of Indian English novelists, lived in an Indian ambience which was charged invariably wi...

This book helps to explore and discover the emergence and remarkable acceptance of George Bernard Shaw in the world of drama with special emphasis on the playwright’s dramatic art and philosophy. Here, a fresh critical approach is widened to incor...

Rituals and festivals form an integral part of every society, whether ancient or modern. Indian English fiction has shown a capacity to accommodate a wide range of concerns. Rituals and ceremonies associated with different religions, cultural and ...

Modern Indian Theatre came into being with the establishment of Sangeet Natak Akademi, the National Academy of Music and Dance Drama and the National School of Drama in the 1950s and ’60s. The best known four playwrights—Mohan Rakesh, Girish Karna...

The book contains critical articles dealing with the plays of significant Indian English playwrights like Harindranath Chattopadhyaya, Sri Aurobindo, Rabindranath Tagore, Mulk Raj Anand, K. Venkatareddy, Tarlochan Singh Gill, Lakhan Deb, Badruddin...

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 of the Indian experience and sensibility as expressed in them. The choice of English as the medium o...

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 in the name of war on terrorism that prompted the idea of getting this book published. The title Fict...

“It is by now clear that a feminist renaissance is under way,” remarked Adrienne Rich, the great American poet and feminist. Contemporary feminist literature is characterized by issues of women’s self-identity, of women coming out from the male-de...

Feminism is a rapidly developing critical ideology of great promise. It has evolved into a philosophy encompassing diverse fields of human activity in society. The feminist theory with its varied articulations and ramifications in a literary conte...

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 in the familial context. In reality, feminism wants you to be—whoever you are—but with a political c...

Shashi Deshpande, born in 1938 at Dharwad, Karnataka, is the daughter of renowned Kannada dramatist and Sanskrit scholar Late Adya Rangachar Shriranga. Deshpande, a recipient of the prestigious Sahitya Akademy Award for That Long Silence is well k...

Beginning with a comprehensive survey of feminism’s most important themes and concerns and providing a critical evaluation of the various aspects of contemporary feminism, The Atlantic Feminist Series—Feminism in Literature: Musings and Aesthetics...

Feminism and Gender Discourse: A Revisioning aims to showcase various discussions related to gender discourse, be it through fiction, drama, or poetry. Feminism in India is a set of movements aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal po...

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, she is immensely occupied but her suffering has not changed. Margaret Drabble, a contemporary living...

“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.” This Volume by Dr. Neeru Tandon addresses the problems of the pluralistic societies—Indian, Canadia...

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 ambiguity in Keats. Sexual ambiguity, as scholars have discussed, refers to the sexual identity or fragmen...

The book is a study of several aspects of immigrant consciousness and diasporic sensibilities. The scholarly papers of the eminent authors reveal the thematic concerns of distinguished, world-renowned Indian diasporic novelists and poets who have ...

The book interrogates the rise of ethno-nationalism in India with specific reference to Northeast India. It aims to bring interdisciplinary perspectives drawn from studies of culture, history, literature, and politics to the analysis of emerging a...