Literary Cascades: A Festschrift for Prof. B. Gopal Rao

The context of the present volume is the occasion of the superannuating of Prof. B. Gopal Rao, Head Department of English, Osmania University, Hyderabad, A.P. India. The professor’s own teachers, brilliant academics from different parts of the country, young scholars, colleagues in the department and may of his research scholars who are now teachers in different universities and colleges have all come forward to write for this volume. The spectrum is as vast as it is imposing — ranging from essays on theoreticians such as Lacan to British, American, Postcolonial and Indian English Literatures — the volume is a sumptuous feast for the literary sensibility.