English Literature

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 Literature contains fifteen scholarly papers on theory and practice of this body of literature in our time. It makes an attempt to anal...

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,...

Commonwealth literature continues to retain a separate identity in the twenty-first century, even though some of its creators do not favour the ter...

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...

Concurrent with increasing scholarly attention towards children’s literature, Canons of Children’s Literature, (Vol. II) explores an emerging body ...

Today, when the literature for adults is deteriorating, good books for children seem to be the only hope, the only refuge, appealing not only to th...

Today, when the literature for adults is deteriorating, good books for children seem to be the only hope, the only refuge, appealing not only to th...

British Victorian Literature — Critical Assessments is a cross-section of some of the most insightful and perceptive critical writings ever publish...

The reputation of Wordsworth, once regarded as the most important exponent of English Romanticism, has, strangely, been quite controversial, and th...

British Romantic Poets — Critical Assessments is a selection of some of best critical writings available on the British Romantic period of English ...

Interest in supernatural phenomena was high during the time of Charles Dickens. He was open-minded, willing to accept, and put to test the existenc...

Standard Hindi, or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi, is also known as Manak Hindi (Devanagri: मानक हिन्दी). It is the primary official language...

The book conducts a thorough investigation into the seventy-three years (1865-1937) of Bankim criticism. It throws a flood of light on the evolutio...

Badal Sircar: People’s Playwright throws light on Sircar’s unequitable contribution to Indian theatre. He has not only given it a new dimension but...

Aspects of Contemporary World Literature is an unfailingly resourceful and informative book and its penetrating contemporary analyses bring into vi...

This book deals with colonialism, political culture and nationalism in India. It examines Sati Pratha in nineteenth-century India, the plight of wo...

The present book seeks to present Arun Joshi as a novelist of great merit and as an author of rare sensitivity. It reveals his instinctive ability ...

Around the World in Eighty Days is a classic adventure novel by Jules Verne. It is the story of a rich English gentleman living a life of modesty a...

War has always been a forceful theme in American fiction from the time when Stephen Crane wrote The Red Badge of Courage, his epic novel about the ...

Literary theory is the systematic study of the nature of literature and of the methods for analyzing literature. It is a highly complex and fascina...

Applied linguistics is an interdisciplinary field of study that identifies, investigates and provides solutions to language-related real-life probl...

Applied Linguistics explores in depth some of the most vital areas in stylistics and language teaching: Anthropomorphism in the Language of Poetry ...