Literary Criticism

• Author(s): Jonathan F. S. Post • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: ShakespeareNot for nothing is William Shakespeare considered possibly the most famous writer in history; his works have ...

• Author(s): Hainsworth & Robey | David Robey • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: MedievalThis Very Short Introduction examines all the major aspects of Dante's work, emphasizing the fe...

• Author(s): Rudyard Kipling • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English Literature(1) The Jungle Books: - Kipling's allegory, The Jungle Books, set in India and filled with high adventure and extraordinary characters th...

• Author(s): Bijay Kumar Das • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteraturePostmodernism in Indian English literature refers to the works of literature after 1980. If Raja Rao’s Kanthapura (1938) marks modernism...

• Author(s): D.H. Lawrence • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureRegarded notoriously pornographic when published in 1928, the novel is a triumph of passion, an erotic celebration of life, exploring the e...

• Author(s): Fredric Jameson • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge Classics • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: GeneralIn this ground-breaking and influential study Fredric Jameson explores the complex plac...

• Author(s): R.S. Sharma | Ratri Ray • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureShakespeare produced most of his work between 1589 and 1613. His early plays were comedies and histories—genres he raised to the ...

• Author(s): Bishun Kumar • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteratureThe book has extended and widened the implications of the term “New Literatures in English” to include an assessment of New Humanities and ...

• Author(s): Edward Albert • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP

• Author(s): David Caplan • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • BISAC: PoetryA leading critic explains what makes American poetry--a vast genre covering diverse styles, techniques, and form--distinctive. In this short and engag...

• Author(s): M.P. Sinha • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteratureThis book introduces post-graduate students and researchers to the basics and techniques of research methods in English literature and langu...

• Author(s): Rabindranath Tagore • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureRed Oleanders/Raktakarabī is one of the best plays of Tagore, the myriadminded and multifaceted genius; understandably ‘meanings’ hav...

• Author(s): R.S. Sharma | Ratri Ray • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureShakespeare produced most of his work between 1589 and 1613. His early plays were comedies and histories—genres he raised to the ...

• Author(s): Edward Dowden • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteratureThis perceptive study of Shakespeare by Dowden remains unsurpassed. It is not an isolated work but an important landmark in scholarly crit...

• Author(s): Argha Banerjee • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteratureThe book, Female Voices in Keats's Poetry studies some major women figures in John Keats's poetry in the light of recent criticism of sex...

• Author(s): Rama Kundu • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteratureA Passage to India, E.M. Forster’s masterpiece, which has remained consistently popular and widely studied in India for eight decades, has al...

• Author(s): Chris Baldick • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: ReferenceThe bestselling Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms provides clear and concise definitions of the most troubl...

• Author(s): Elaine Treharne • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: MedievalLooking at literature from Medieval Britain and Ireland, including Anglo-Latin and Anglo-Norman poetry, prose and dr...

• Author(s): Robert Eaglestone • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryIn this Very Short Introduction, Robert Eaglestone provides a clear and engaging exploration of the ...

• Author(s): Matthew Bevis • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: HumorTo consider comedy in its many incarnations is to raise diverse but related questions: what, for instance, is humour, and...

• Author(s): Peter Hainsworth | David Robey • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: European - ItalianIn this Very Short Introduction, Peter Hainsworth and David Robey consider Italian literatu...

• Author(s): David Seed • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Science Fiction & FantasyScience Fiction has proved notoriously difficult to define. It has been explained as a combination o...

• Author(s): Jonathan Culler • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryRoland Barthes (1915-80) was an 'incomparable enlivener of the literary mind' whose lifelong fasc...

• Author(s): Sir Arthur Conan Doyle • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureCollection of (1) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes ; The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve short stories by...

• Author(s): Thomas Hardy • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureCollection of (1) The Mayor of Casterbridge; The Mayor of Casterbridge displays the influence of Hardy's upbringing, rural background, and a...

• Author(s): Thomas Hardy • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureTess of the D’Urbervilles, a brilliant tale of seduction, love, betrayal, and murder, is generally regarded as Thomas Hardy’s finest novel. ...

• Author(s): Joseph Chandra | K.S. Antony Samy • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteratureLiterary theory with an intellectual ancestry of over 2300 years is a highly complex and fascinating discipline. It is...

• Author(s): Robert Louis Stevenson • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureSet in Scotland just after the Jacobite rebellions and narrated by the teenager David Balfour, Kidnapped is an adventure book that...

• Author(s): Santwana Haldar • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteratureDuring the post-war years the experimental tendency in British novel continued, but the critics lamented that the mid-twentieth century ...

• Author(s): Vishwanath Khali • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteratureJohn Keats was one of the main figures of the second generation of romantic poets along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley. He be...

• Author(s): R.S. Sharma • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteratureStudies in Literature presents challenging ideas on a variety of literary topics including the poetry of T.S. Eliot. In “Indian Response to ...

• Author(s): Shad Naved • Publisher: Tulika Books • Publisher Imprint: Tulika Books • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Comparative LiteratureThe old ghazal, i.e. the poetry of eros in Urdu, Persian and Arabic, has been read as great literatur...

• Author(s): Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Horror & SupernaturalBy the dim and yellow light of the moon, as it forced its way through the window-shutte...

• Author(s): Jack london • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English Literature"The Wild still lingered in him, and the wolf in him merely slept." White Fang, published in 1906 by Jack London, is an enthralling adventur...

• Author(s): Christine Ferguson • Publisher: OUP India • Publisher Imprint: OUP IndiaFaiz Ahmen Faiz is looked on as the most important Urdu poet in both India and Pakistan. This collection of his poems is representative of the best in contempora...

• Author(s): Karnad Girish • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UPGirish Karnad was born in Matheran, near Bombay, in 1938. A Rhodes Scholar at Oxford (1960–63) and a Bhabha Fellow (1970–72), he is one of the foremost ...

• Author(s): Jean-Paul Sartre • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: GeneralAbout the Book ‘There is a crisis of the essay,’ begins Sartre as he ventures into a longanalysis o...

• Author(s): Graziosi • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Ancient and ClassicalAbout the Book Homer's mythological tales of war and homecoming, the Iliad and the Odyssey, are widely conside...

• Author(s): Nicholas Boyle • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: European - GermanAbout the Book German writers, from Luther and Goethe to Heine, Brecht, and Günter Grass, have had a profou...

• Author(s): Charlotte Gordon • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: GeneralbVery Short Introductionsb: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring /b In 1816, when eighteen-year old Mary Godwin began writin...

• Author(s): Stanley Wells • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • BISAC: ShakespeareTragedy, including grief, pain and suffering, is a common theme in Shakespeare's plays, often leading to the death of at least one character, if ...

• Author(s): D.H. Lawrence • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureCollection of (1) Lady Chatterley's Lover : "Regarded notoriously pornographic when published in 1928, the novel is a triumph of passion, a...

• Author(s): Charles and Mary Lamb • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureAn enthralling retelling of Shakespeare’s twenty masterpieces, Tales from Shakespeare is a real feast of simple words flavoured wit...

• Author(s): Frank Woodworth Pine • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureThe Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is a captivating literary work that offers readers a unique glimpse into the life and mind of...

• Author(s): George Bernard Shaw • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureA great dramatist, a literary critic, an eminent showman, an intellectual and a satirist, George Bernard Shaw was a leading theatre p...

• Author(s): Rabindranath Tagore | Introduction by Mohit K. Ray • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteratureThe 37 essays included in this volume are gleaned from the rich repertoire of Tagore's original Engli...

• Author(s): William J. Long • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteratureThe book presents the history of English literature from Anglo-Saxon times to the close of the Victorian Era. It aims to create in every...

• Author(s): A.N. Dwivedi • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteratureThis book traces the origin and growth of Kamala Das as a poet through successive stages. Mrs. Das, who received no formal education, no p...

• Author(s): Terry Eagleton • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Blackwell • Subject: English LiteratureThis 25th anniversary edition of Terry Eagleton's classic introduction to literary theory includes a new foreword by Eagleton himself, refl...

• Author(s): Bijay Kumar Das • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteratureThe Poetry of Jayanta Mahapatra (Fourth Revised and Enlarged Edition, 2009) is an incisive and well-researched book. It makes an in-dept...

• Author(s): Kriti Gulati • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteratureThe present book can justifiably claim to be the encyclopedia of English as an Academic Language (EAL). This particular aspect of the study...

• Author(s): Mohit K. Ray | Rama Kundu • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteratureRabindranath Tagore’s long life (1861-1941) was marked by ceaseless and torrential flow of creativity manifested in the richne...

• Author(s): Sir Richard C. Jebb | Preface by Mohit K. Ray • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteratureThe Primer of Greek Literature, originally published in 1877, is, till date, the finest introduction to th...

• Author(s): P. Mallikarjuna Rao | Rajeshwar Mittapalli | K. Damodar Rao • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteratureThis anthology offers new modes of response in the theory and practice of postcoloniality. W...

• Author(s): A.N. Dhar • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteratureMysticism in Literature offers a fresh perspective to poetry, relating and balancing the western and eastern approaches. The book specifically...

• Author(s): B.R. Agrawal • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteratureIt was September 28, 2004 when the world of literature was stunned to have lost its versatile genius, a pioneer of Indian English fiction, ...

• Author(s): Sk. Sagir Ali • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteratureLiterary Theory: Textual Application provides a critical and thorough presentation of contemporary theoretical perspectives on the differe...

• Author(s): George Bernard Shaw • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: English LiteratureMajor Barbara, a social satire in three acts, written in 1905 and published in 1907, is the most controversial of Shaw’s works which ...

• Author(s): Ravindra Nath Shrivastava • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteratureLiterary Criticism in Theory and Practice presents a penetrating analysis of the major theories and practices of all the domin...

• Author(s): G.R. Malik • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: English LiteratureIn undertaking to examine Iqbal’s relationship to the English Romantic poets, Mr Ghulam Rasool Malik addresses himself to a major problem in ...