English Literature

Geet Govinda-a superb lyrical Sanskrit poem of the 12th century composed by Jaideva has stirred the minds of the readers, artists, dancers and musi...

About the Book The First World War has survived as part of our national memory in a way no previous war has ever done. This collection of letters -...

‘But I am thankful that my lot lies with the humble who suffer and bear the burden of power, and hide their faces and stifle their sobs in the dark...

From Margin To Mainstream Memoirs by Jagannath Pahadia, 9383746599, 9789383746590, S. Chand & Co.

About the Book This volume collects three decades of articles by the distinguished linguist Joan Bybee. Her articles essentially argue for the impo...

About the Book Freewomen and Supermen adds to the comparatively recent body of research which has sought to re-evaluate the literature and culture ...

A twisted, upside-down creation myth that gave birth to the modern science fiction novel Frankenstein, Mary Shelley's chilling Gothic tale, lays b...

About the Book As recent films like Slumdog Millionaire attest, India on film is quickly growing beyond the images of Bollywood that used to come t...

In Forsaken, Alexandre Bergamini draws us into a poeticyet precise account of his personal life his older brother ssuicide; his fraught relationshi...

Text: English Original Language: German

About the Book Kirstie Blair explores Victorian poetry in relation to Victorian religion, with particular emphasis on the bitter contemporary debat...

Foreigners and Foreign Languages in India: A Sociolinguistic History

For The Love of A Man (F.B)

About the Book Fly Away, Pigeon tells the heart-wrenching story of a family torn between emigration and immigration and paints evocative portraits ...

About the Book Almost twenty years after the fall of the wall, the Kreuzberg district of Berlin has become unbearably trendy and deeply unappealing...

About the Book This book explores the nature of finiteness, one of most commonly used notions in descriptive and theoretical linguistics but possib...

About the Book In this book, Mary Talbot shows how fiction works in the constitution and reproduction of social life. She discusses both high' and ...

About the Book Ila Arab Mehta is an award-winning Gujarati author most noted for her explorations of feminist thinking. In this new translation of ...

About the Book To create the poems in this collection, Nobel Prize-winner Herta Muller cut up countless newspapers and magazines in search of strik...

About the Book The poet Ezra Pound (1885-1972) was the only child of Homer Loomis Pound (1885-1942) and Isabel Weston Pound (1860-1948). He grew up...

Routledge Introductions to Applied Linguistics is a series of introductory level textbooks covering the core topics in applied linguistics, primari...

About the Book Routledge Introductions to Applied Linguistics is a series of introductory level textbooks covering the core topics in Applied Lingu...

About the Book Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei demonstrates that the exotic, as reflected in major works of German literature and in the philosophy ...

About the Book How did the biological, brain and behavioural structures underlying human language evolve? When, why and where did our ancestors bec...

About the Book Exploring poetry scrapbooks, old-time radio show recordings, advertising verse, corporate archives, and Hallmark greeting cards, amo...

About the Book The book is the first of its kind in using the methodology of Comparative Literature to look at ethnographic fiction written in diff...

About the Book Over the centuries, observances of Muharram, the first month of the Islamic calendar, have traveled far from their origins at Karbal...

About the Book Founded in 1906 by J.M. Dent, the Everyman Library has always tried to make the best books ever written available to the greatest nu...

About the Book This book is the first to provide a connected history of epic poetry in Britain between the French Revolution and the First World Wa...

About the Book English: An Essential Grammar is written specifically for native speakers, beginning with the basics and going on to deal with phras...

English Phonetics and Pronunciation Practice provides a unique introduction to basic articulatory phonetics for students of English. Taking a pract...

English for IT Communication provides a comprehensive introduction for students and professionals studying IT or Computer Science and covers all fo...

About the Book Rather than treating the plays as objects to be studied, described and interpreted, Engagements with Shakespearean Drama examines pr...

About the Book Austronesian is the largest language family on earth: Some 1300 languages, 20% of the world's total, are spoken by 270 million peopl...

About the Book T., an acclaimed but ageing actor, and Efina, a passionate theatergoer, are engaged in an obsessive love affair that careens from at...

About the Book Edmund Spenser's innovative poetic works have a central place in the canon of English literature. Yet he is remembered as a morally ...

About the Book Part of the Critical Assessments of Writers in English series, the aim of which is to provide complete collections of previously pub...

A collection of her activist prose written between 1981 and 1992, including most of her articles in English, from journals and newspapers, several ...

Nemai Ghosh is best known for his photographs of Satyajit Ray at work and in his more private moments and moods, and his stills from Ray's films. G...

About the Book This series provides a wide variety of reading material for all learners of English. The books are retold versions of popular classi...

Doing Corpus Linguistics offers a practical step-by-step introduction to corpus linguistics, making use of widely available corpora and of a regist...

About the Book "There's something of everything there, the best and the worst, the vulgar and the sublime, flowers, muck, tears, laughter, the rive...

Belonging to what one may best describe as representative of the culture of the ‘urban popular’, the novella dissevered (khandita), published seven...