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Androgyny is an engaging subject of discussion and research in the present times. This volume makes an effort to understand concepts of androgyny and ‘nari bhav’ or sensibility of the feminine beyond the anatomy-directed definitions circumscribed within the dubious realm of the ‘third sex’ or ‘third gender’.
As expressed through various literary and performative traditions in India that emphasize interrelatedness of art and ...
As the first major anthology of its kind, this collection of eighteen plays by women constitutes a significant intervention of gender in the discourse of Indian theatre. Drawn from ten different Indian languages, all the plays included in this collection are being published for the first time in English translation. Each play, in its own way, engages with social issues from woman's perspective. The anthology dramatizes women's resistance to social pressures which ...
This volume both interrogates and celebrate the outstanding achievement of Girish Karnad as a dramatist, engaged in reinventing the Indian theatre traditions over the past forty-five years. Jargon-free and insightful, the book probes Karnad’s inclusive dramaturgy manifested in his deft handling of various literary tropes and stage props. All major plays of the distinguished dramatist are explored and revaluated in their larger socio-cultural, historical, ...
This works attempts a comprehensive study of the basis theoretical perspectives of the Chicago School of Critics and their use of Classical, Primarily Aristotelian, methodologies for the examination and analysis of texts from different genres. The study examines separately the Chicago methodologies used in the analysis and interpretations of Poetry, Drama and Fiction. Perhaps this kind of an integrated and full length appraisal of the Chicago Critics with an ...