English Literature

Three Plays

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These three intense narratives are set in distinctly diverse yet paradoxically convergent worlds tailing the trajectory of some very unusual bonds....

An overview of all aspects of Indian English.

I regret to see that my book has turned out un fiasco solenne' James Joyce's disillusion with the publication of Dubliners in 1914 was the result o...

A quarter century after the war that was meant to bring liberation to Bangladesh, Mukti, a researcher, comes into Mariam's life, calling up memorie...

Never has contemporary fiction been more widely discussed and passionately analysed; recent years have seen a huge growth in the number of reading ...

This is an exploration of how three English writers-Edward Carpenter, E.M. Forster, and Christopher Isherwood-all three of whom shared a similar se...

Wrong Number And Other Stories

Poet, translator, folklorist, A.K. Ramanujan has been recognized as the world's most profound scholar of South Asian language and culture. This boo...

This is a richly illustrated anthology of the great hunter and conservationist's best writing, selected from his many popular works. The collection...

When a poet turns to prose the result is sometimes astonishing, and The Collected Essays of A K Ramanujan--which is part Indology, part treatise on...

Linguistics falls in the gap between arts and science, on the edges of which the most fascinating discoveries and the most important problems are f...

In this anthology Eunice de Souza brings together the writings of women whose contributions in various areas social and literary during the ninetee...

This book is intended to capture the interest of anyone who has been attracted to Russian culture through the greats of Russian literature, either ...

Mahasweta Devi is one of India's foremost literary figures. Mother of 1084 is one of her most widely read works, written during the height of the N...

Presenting a distinct combination of well-written, up-to-date background information and intriguing selections from primary documents, The Bedford ...

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The Koran has constituted a remarkably strong core of identity and continuity for a religious tradition that is now in its fifteenth century. This ...

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This book investigates how the sexual element in Shakespeare's works in complicated and compromised by the impact of print. Whether the issue is on...

This play by one of India s foremost playwrights and actors is based on a story from the Mahabharata which tellingly illuminates universal themes -...

Mahasweta Devi is widely acknowledged as one of India's foremost writers. Her trenchant, powerful, satiric fiction has won her recognition in the f...

Where did the words bungalow and assassin derive? What did nice mean in the Middle Ages? How were adder, anger, and umpire originally spelled? The ...

Jim Corbett's classic stories of man-eaters have made him a legend in India. This colorfully-written collection contains classic tales about the hu...

Though much of Iqbal's best poetry is written in Persian, he is also a poet of colossal stature in Urdu. Shikwa (1909) and Jawab-i-Shikwa (1913) ex...

Man-Eaters of Kumaon is the best known of Colonel Corbett's books, and contains ten fascinating stories of tracking and shooting man-eaters in the ...

This is the first Oxford India Paperback printing of this collection. Vijay Tendulka has been in the vanguard of the Indian theatre for almost fort...

Reading the Victorian Novel is a clear and engaging introduction to Victorian fiction. In this book, Annette Federico invites readers to turn thei...

This edited volume takes an expansive, no-nonsense view of the spectrum of English language learners to address their varied backgrounds and their ...

A profound poem on the mystical and the ecstatic and about our connection with nature. Beachlight is a sustained poem divided into smaller parts ...

Poetry from an especially deft magician of words. This latest book of wonders from Nancy Naomi Carlson fixes upon one of the few defenses we have...

A chilling poetic reflection on the world we have inherited and the destructions that made it. To confront time, pre-modern Arabic poems often be...

A brief study of select Western art from Italy’s foremost philosopher. In Renaissance palaces, the studiolo was a small room to which the prince w...

A highly anticipated edition of Zaqtan’s work from 2014 to 2020, all in English for the first time. Ghassan Zaqtan is not only one of the most sig...

Choice is the defining issue of the twenty-first century. As the #MeToo movement extends its legal, social, and political reach around the world, t...

Two plays exploring the dark side of power and the human cost of injustice. What is the fate of justice when morality is subservient to power? Wh...

An intensely personal and profoundly moving review of Bonnefoy’s childhood memories. In December 2015, six months before his death at the age of 9...

The best-known dramatic works of Paula in its first English translation. This volume brings together the best-known dramatic works of Argentine pl...

This concise and accessible textbook is a comprehensive introduction to the key historical aspects of translation. Six chapters cover essential con...

One of the three major women writers in Kannada in the early 20th century, Gouramma's career was only about eight years and 21 short stories long. ...

Translation: The Basics is an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the study of translation. This revised edition includes two new chapters...

Writers at War addresses the most immediate representations of the First World War in the prose of Ford Madox Ford, May Sinclair, Siegfried Sassoon...

Chanchal Mitra wakes up in a far-off desert town, sharing a dingy hotel room with the flamboyant Mr. Kapoor, who is planning to abduct a billionair...

The second volume of notes and reflections from one of Switzerland’s most prominent and prolific men of letters. One of Europe’s finest contempora...

A critical intervention on the relationship between language and matter. If the twentieth century was the century in which language was at the cen...