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The academic scene today exhibits a huge affinity for cross border studies and for experimenting with inter disciplinary approaches that reveal the complexity of contemporary experiences. The world in which we live gets defined and modified by our interaction with other human beings across boundaries. This is reflected in the literary texts, performances and socio-cultural dialogues that link people and places in interesting ways. This convergence of areas of ...
Art and life in India have been inextricably intertwined from the ancient to the contemporary. Art as a way of life, art as ritual, art as decoration and art as unity with Godhead, bore testament to the socio-cultural milieu, the high level of sophistication that developed in ancient India was reflected in the arts by their study in a holistic light. The arts thus strived to home mean intellectual sensibilities, thus raising him level of the transcendental, which ...
Dryden the Father of English Criticism, as Eliot points out, is a classic. He dreamt of a harmonious world which he attempted to realize in his work. His tercentenary in the year 2000 and the completion of the magnificent "California Dryden" in twenty volumes (1956-2002) have rejuvenated enthusiasm and interest in the critical reassessment of Dryden's poetry, drama and criticism. His contribution to the evolution of Restoration tragicomedy in the ...