M K Naik
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This volume surveys the astonishing flowering of Indian Writing in English during the last two decades. After a brief but trenchant analysis of the milieu, it examines the literary productions in the genres of fiction, poetry, drama and non-fictional prose. The range of this study is comprehensive, almost encyclopaedic, the style lively and jargon-free, and the critical enquiry perceptive and succinct, followed by an exhaustive bibliography of secondary sources. ...
As the title, 'A Critical Harvest: Essays and Studies' Indicates, this collection of essays represents all the diverse areas in which Prof. Naik has worked for about four decades. The areas include British literature, American literature, Anglo-Indian writing, Translation, and, of course, Indian English literature, of which Dr. Naik has been one of the earliest and ablest champions. Prof. Naik's critical writing has always been marked by solid scholarship, cogent ...
Indian English Literature began as an interesting by-product of an eventful encounter in the late eighteenth century between a vigorous and enterprising Britain and a stagnant and chaotic India, and is now nearly two hundred years old. It is literature written originally in English by authors Indian by birth, ancestry or nationality. It is no part of English literature, any more than American literature or Australian literature can be said to be a branch of ...
This study attempts a concise and exciting critique of the entire range of Indian English Poetry, from its beginnings upto the year 2000. It comprises general surveys of periods and schools; evaluations of prominent poets; analyses of outstanding poems, long and short; and considerations of significant issues, such as Alienation and Indianness in respect of Indian English Poetry. Highly perceptive and eminently readable, the volume offers a holistic and ...
Contents: Introduction. Stratigraphy. Systematics: 1. Garramites sp. 2. Subulites (Fusispira) sp. 3. Nuculoma sp. 4. Modiolus (Modiolus) sp. 5. Chalamys (Chlamys) sp. 6. Camptonectes (Camtochlamys) sp. 7. Spondylopecten sp. 8. Bositra sp. 9. Mactromya sp. 10. Plicatula sp. 11. Lopha sp. 12. Sindeites sp. 13. Nothocephalites sp. 14. Subkossmatia sp. 15. Idiocycloceras sp. 16. Macrocephalites (s. str.) sp. 17. Kamptokephalites sp. 18. Indocephalites sp. 19. ...
This book is an attempt to provide critical and up-to-date review and synthesis of various facets of soil borne plant diseases taking stock of present state of art in soil borne plant pathogens. The contributors from various national laboratories, centres of excellence in research institutes and university with mastery over the subjects illustrated and review the progress, application of knowledge on soil borne plant diseases besides updating the readers with ...