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Edgar Allan Poe and his writing are being subjected to intensive critical scrutiny by champions of post-modernist theory in the US today. His name is frequently invoked among the contemporary American fiction writers on account of the current vogue of the short story in the US. The present times, with emphasis upon "minimalism," are more suitable for the short story than the novel. Mystery, vividness, intensity, and brevity emphasized so much by Poe as ...
The work of Edgar Allan Poe, one of the seminal minds of the nineteenth century America, continues to be relevant to the theory and practice of fiction across the continents. Despite the immense quantity of Poe criticism, the sheer duversity of critical opinion, like the author's own writing, warrants a comprehensive analysis of the oeuvre. The main concern of Prof. D. Ramakrishna's latest book, The Craft of Poe's Tales, has been a systematic application of Poe's ...
Indian English has been universally accepted as a unique style of discourse with its own nuances, giving expression to Indian multiculturalism in the work of writers in India or those abroad. Not only the new Indian writers in the West, expariates, the second and the third generation writers, but also the classic authors like A.K. Ramanujan, Nissim Ezekiel, Mulk Raj anand, R.K. Narayan, and Bhabani Bhattacharya are being interpreted in the old critical mode as ...
The book contains thirteen short stories and four sketches, several of which appeared in Kakatiya Journal of English Studies (Warangal) and Triveni (Hyderabad) since 1999. The short stories deal with aspects of contemporary Indian life like the academia, brain drain, unemployment, political corruption, and middle-class existence. There is also the backdrop of the subcultures of Andhra and Telangana and the Hyderabad City. Interaction between the subcultures and ...