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Thought fiction made a late beginning it remains the forte of Indian writers. It is here that they have by their genius highlighted the Indian achievement in English. As Rushdie remarked the novelists “are in a position to conquer English Literature†they have made serious efforts to redefine English prose†with myths, homour (and) themes vast as the subcontinent†wrote Anthony Spaeth. With new trends emerging, new talents making their mark, new ...
The history of Indian Writing in English is broadly speaking a development from poetry to prose and from romantic idealization to various modernistic forms, passing through the phases of Imitation, Assimilation to authentic artistic utterance and Experimentation. The experimental approach, the quest for originality, stress on individuality and rejection of all that is traditional has borne impressive results. The poets have been lifted from exclusive to an ...
After centuries of indifference and imitative efforts Indian English Drama now stands poised to acquire an identity and authenticity, to find its own roots, so that it can rise to the challenges of articulating and sharing with the community to which it belongs a creative vision and portray the complex human situation. Turning its professional limitation into artistic assets Indian English Drama is determined to prove that it belongs to a race with a rich ...
Acclaimed by The London Times and New York Book Review as the foremost creative descendent in the great tradition of D.H. Lawrence and T.S. Eliot Doris Lessing is unique among women writers. A writer of epic scope and starting surprises, her writings extend the boundaries of diction experiment with different genres and in the process explore the world of Africa, Briton and Space. In her more than thirty-five book she ranges from social realism to science fiction ...