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In this book, an attempt has been made to deal with the study of folklore and the alternative modernities associated with it. The research papers closely examine how folk literature, classical literature and modern literature exchange hands to enrich each other. In the papers, there are well-knit examples from the oral as well as written literatures of different regions of India with a few comparative studies from the world literatures. The volume experiments ...
English in India has made a stay today and Indian English Literature has earned worldwide critical acclaim. There is no doubt of the fact that Indian poetry in English has acquired a regional bias, the poets are definitely influenced by the geographical regions they belong to. In this book, Dr. Nandini Sahu attempts to make a study of the poetry of Jayanta Mahapatra. A.K. Ramanujan, R. Parthasarathy and Kamala Das – the four major voices in contemporary Indian ...
The importance of English in India as a medium of instruction and communication is growing fast since the post-colonial era. The English-speaking population in India today exceeds the number of people speaking English in Britain. Twenty-Five essays that constitute this volume throw light on various aspects of English language teaching, functional English, communicative English, English for specific purposes, material production and syllabus design for Indian ...
The 1980's and after has created a typical post-modern anxiety with the advent of Salman Rushdie as an influential Diaspora writer. This book is conceptualized around a series of topics like post-modern anxiety, identity, politics, national and self-definition, the problem of exile and Diaspora and an interest to examine the way Indian English Literature has established itself and set up as a separate discipline. While the bright and brilliant promises about ...