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The present volume is a collection of twenty one research papers on Indian novelists ranging from Venkataramani to Chetan Bhagat; issues spanning from nationalism and partition to gen next and these novelist are approached form different perspectives like feminist, socio-cultural, psychological and also stylistic. The anthology seeks to present to the readers a wealth of scholarship. It includes two comprehensive papers on R.K. Narayan’s novels. One each on ...
The present book is a comprehensive study of the poetry and the novels of Walter de la Mare, the last one of the romantic school of poetry. It is perhaps the first ever Indian critical response to Walter de la Mare. The authors of the book succinctly explore the thematic and stylistic qualities of his poetry; and place his novels in the Gothic tradition. The book not only gives a peep into the age but also tries to revive our interest in the world of phantasy and ...
The present book on Indian Novels in English is a collection of seventeen research papers and essays written at different times for literary journals and anthologies. There is a general discussion about the sensibility of the Indian Novels in English in the first chapter. It raises several pertinent questions about its nomenclature, nature, scope and serious limitations. The papers are focussed on mainly novels. However, three novelists are also studied in ...
The present anthology of critical essays on Indian writers and their works hailing from a particular region is a ground breaking work in the sense that it offers new additions to the existing knowledge of Indian literature in English through K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar's Indian writing in English. In this way it is a new discovery. It points to the need of updating and revision of the history of Indian writing in English. The book comprising twenty five papers on ...
It is a pleasure to present this book to the discerning readers of English Literature as it constitutes, mainly academicians and scholars to the British novelists and poets and their texts. The eighteen essays included in it are well researched, comprehensive and insightful. Since the texts studied here are classics in Literature they are amenable to multiple interpretations. Every age discovers a new meaning, a new dimension in the classics. It is all the more ...
The book World Literature in English comprise 20 comprehensive informative and thought-provoking articles of great use for postgraduate students, research scholars and readers of World literature. It authors from both eastern and western countries. The authors studied here include Thomas hardy, D.H. Lawrence, Charles Dickens, Pablo Neruda, Kazyyosi Ikela and Vivejkananda. The text analysed include Under Western Eyes, One Mad Bid for freedom, Yakada yaka, The ...
This book on Indian Drama in English is a yeoman service to the criticism of drama in India as it is the least treaded area of Indian literature in English. It comprises critical materials on both original plays in English and on translations from the regional languages. It covers both well known playwrights and their plays and rediscovers the hidden gems. It consists of twenty two well researched, comprehensive and scholarly papers by the writers of repute. It ...
This comprehensive study of R.K. Narayan's fiction is an endeavour honoris causa. By honouring the great fictionist we honour ourselves. The more we talk about him, the fuller is our find of artistic skill and subterranean meaning. It is ever expanding, ever rewarding and ever satisfying our inquisitive aspirations. His contribution to Indian literature is purely indigenous. The vast corpus of his writings is a testimony to his Indian sensibility deeply anchored ...
The present book is a groundbreaking research on the voices and vision of Vivekananda in English Literature. Vivekananda needs no introduction as one of the greatest religious leaders and philosophers of the modern India. But few of us recognise him as one of the pioneers of Indian English Literature, a mystic poet, a trend setter in prose style and one who broke English from Macaulayan style of writing. It explores the various shaping influences on him as a man, ...