This book is a collection of papers presented at the national seminar on “Marginal Existence: New Trends in Literature†organized by the Department of English, Kumaun Unviersity, Nainital. The articles collected here represent a wide range of topics, from the purely theoretical, which outline and define the concept, to the thematically specific, such as the marginalization of the elderly. From Marlow to Morrison, and Gaikwad to Gandhi and Sri Aurobindo, the ...