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Language has many things more to shoulder than to merely communicate and unite; and it is here that a culture comes to our rescue. All these contribute to the creation of poetics this anthology brings to focus the essentials of all the three.
Talking of moderns is a current fashion, and it has been so right from the inception of curiosity to defy and decry, a tendency to perform something new, out of an innovative mind, away from the defined term; that is why the exact time of its beginning remains controversial to both the historians and the critics - and we talk of not only the moderns rather post-post-moderns. To me modernity signifies a departure from the set norms at any point of time, you may ...
Feminism has been the point of contention for the writers and thinkers of the world for quite a long time; consequently, a deluge of theories came in its support. They were encountered with the same propensity and fervour, and the world of literature became the breeding ground both in the East and the West; at the end of the tunnel, it collapsed. But the femininity survived. The present anthology is a deliberation on the entity of the two.
Jayanta Mahapatra (b. 1928) is one of the leading contemporary Indian poets writing in English. His sphere of pursuits is very wide. The Indian Imagination of Jayanta Mahapatra critically examines various themes in the works of jayanta Mahapatra. It is a compilation of critical articles of reputed scholars of Jayanta Mahapatra's works. This book is probably the first book that critically assesses almost all aspects of Jayanta Mahapatra's Work. His strength is ...
Indian Writing in English has undoubtedly acquired its own independent identity; it no more remains mere initiative and derivative. Its long journey from colonial to post-colonial, from imperial to democratic and form English to Hinglish forms a remarkable chapter in the history of world literature. Tagore earned the first recognition and Naipaul is the recent laureate. In between these Nobel Laureates came a number of writers whose work earned worldwide ...
Women, in general, and women writings in particular, have been a case of ignored affair and most of us, even today, take it as unsubstantial and insignificant. Women, however, all over the world, have started writing in their own language and in the international language, which is English, expressing their long silent ideas and notions, and are being widely recognized, so far claiming eleven Nobel Prizes in Literature. Women writers from all over the world have ...
Indian English Poetry, now-a-days, has got its own identity and stature away from its early image of being derivative and imitative, as an offshoot of British Literature. It is much different from its western counter part in theme, language, writing style, imagery and so on. Every poet has source of inspiration on influence and it is this source which makes Indian English Poetry 'Indian'. This anthology provides spectrum of Indian English Poets who may be ...