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Dr. P.G. Rama Rao (b.1935) retired from the P.G. Dept. of English, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, in 1995, after a long and distinguished innings as a teacher of English and American Literature.
A Fulbright Research Fellow and Adjunct Professor in the University of Massachusetts, he studied the Hemingway manuscripts in 1981-82 and 1993, taught the Hemingway course in the University of Massachusetts, and delivered lectures in several American universities. In ...
Book One of The Ocean and the Waves presents the drama of an affluent extended family in the state of Andhra Pradesh, on the east coast of India, breaking up. Narayan, the only son of the distinguished Ramanatham, the elder of the two brothers in the family, becomes a saint eventually and lives in a bungalow on a hill at the foot of which the breakers dash their heads in hysteric frenzy.
Book Two presents an authentic account of the devastating cyclonic storm and ...
The present book is an in-depth critical study of the modern American classic, Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1952 and the Nobel Prize in 1952 and the Nobel Prize in 1954. This study, while keeping the novel under the critical lens, examines it against the backdrop of Hemingway's aesthetic convictions and overall literary achievement. It throws light on the various dimensions of not only the novel but ...
This book studies Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms in the light of his aesthetic principles and major themes. It scrutinizes its symbolistic dimensions and stylistic excellence while keeping an undeviating focus on the poignant classic of love in the time of war. This study further demonstrates how the novel appeals at different levels like the other works of Hemingway--as a story of war, a story of love, a story of the growth of the hero's soul, a story of ...