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Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the Nobel Laureate, is perhaps the the best-known Latin American novelist. His novel One Hundred Years of Ssolitude is one of the most significant contemporary literary creations. The present volume, devoted to Chronicle of a Death Foretold, discusses Marquez’s contribution to Latin American Literature and offers a detailed study of this unique novel, which skillfully fuses detective fiction with investigative journalism. It reveals ...
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818) was instantly rejected by her contemporaries who could at best recognize the work simply as a 'crude Gothic novel'. Thanks to the recent feminist interest in women's writings, Frankenstein is now elevated to the status of a 'novel of ideas'. The present book, a serious study on the background, theme and technique of the novel, brings within its purview all the existing trends of reading the novel in the light of key discourses ...
Shashi Deshpande is the best known contemporary Indian woman novelist. She is the recipient of Sahitya Akademi Award for her novel That Long Silence. This novel has been acclaimed by critics as the manifesto of Indian feminism. The present book offers a detailed study of the novel that adds to the fast growing corpus of feminist criticism and women’s studies.
T.S. Eliot: An Twenty-first Century View intends to set the poems and plays of the epoch-making poet in the context of his inner preoccupations as revealed in the recently published biographical works on him. It is a masterly study of all the important poems and plays of Eliot which are included in the syllabi of different Indian universities. The book is comprehensive and lucid, including in its details all the possible ways of interpreting Eliots’ poems and ...
Rohinton Mistry is an eminent writer of the Indian Diaspora. Settled in Canada, he has emerged as a significant literary figure during the recent years. His very first novel Such a Long Journey received a wide acclaim and has been regarded as a landmark in the history of Indian fiction. The novel, overtly socio-political, vividly depicts Bombay and the Parsi world. The present volume, the first of its kind, offers a critical and insightful commentary on this ...