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This volume of selected papers from the Journal of Contemporary Thought of the Forum on Contemporary Theory of the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda commemorates the tenth anniversary of the publication of the Journal (1991-2000). The papers are organized around the topic of the discipline of English studies: its history, institutional context, transformation, and pedagogical and curricular imperatives. As the discipline is situated within a complex context ...
This volume of twenty-two essays is prepared to honour Professor Prafulla C Kar on the occasion of his retirement from the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda after about four decades of an illustrious career in the profession. The essays appear in five clusters: the first two essays lay the foundation for reflections on the correspondence between the past and the present and its implications for the future of literary studies; the next four spatially ...
Samskara: A Critical Reader is the first volume of its kind to be published on one of the classics of Indian literatures. It includes two foundation essays by anantha Murthy, one on Indian fiction and the other on how he wrote Samskara, offering a historical context to the volume. Other essyas, besides tracing the novel’s rotos to the tradition of realism in Indian fiction, address textual issues such as the representations of colonial modernity, thematic ...
The sixteen stories included in this volume represent different aspects that characterize the life in Northeast India such as innocence, violence, corruption, romantic love, humour and the supernatural. Variously , these stories bring in the human concerns, and relationships and their fragility to focus. Although not representative, these stories give an understanding of the life and culture of societies in Northeast India. These are stories of very established ...