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Literary theory is perhaps the most debated subject in academic circles today. The last few decades have witnessed an unprecedented proliferation of theory which has radically questioned our understanding of literature as an object of critical study. Various approaches have been adopted by critics and readers to respond to works of art and literature. "What constitutes literary value?" and "How are literary values constituted?" The present ...
The present anthology puts together selected papers from the Melus-India international conference held at Hyderabad in January 2000. The theme of the conference was "Cross-Cultural Transactions: Representations of race, gender, and culture in multi-ethnic literatures of the U.S." The essays collected here cover a wide range of topics on related themes, from broad-based critical approaches to specific scrutiny of individual texts. The authors discussed ...
This book brings together scholarly papers from the 2005 Conference of MELUS-India (the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States). It focuses on important signposts in America across diverse spheres: literature, culture, popular arts, media, et al. the essays collected here are cross-disciplinary and engage in discussions across generic borders and conventional dividing lines. Exploring a wide spectrum of ...