It is an essential reference companion for anyone with an interest in American literature. It will also prove essential to anyone interested in related areas who needs a reliable and concise guide to literature (less)

From the introductory essay the reader will be given a view point from which the selections that follow may best be understood and appreciated and may come to know something of the author and of the reasons that have led to the continuing repute of his work. The general introductions to the lager groups of literary work will present to the reader those fundamental conditions of life, of thought, and of religious and economic experience that have both shaped the literary expression of any given age and also made these literary expressions continuous from the time when literature began to present day (less)

This volume is a product of intensive consultations and dialogue between writers, scholars, researchers and literary translators of both the countries. The book addresses the question of images popular and literary, in Indian and Japanese literature.

It strives to explore the nature of cultural and spiritual interactions between India and Japan. Specific case studies have been organized in order to trace the roots of literary influences as well as the main currents in our contemporary literature keeping in view the possibility of learning from the literary perspectives of each other.

The book also carries an updated bibliography on mutual literature. A thoroughly researched collaborative work, this volume is first of its kind in the history of international literary exchange that contains contributions from the doyens of Indian and Japanese literature.

The book would be of considerable interest to a wide cross-section of readers such as writers, literary critics, researchers, translators, teachers and students of Japan and India.) (less)

Yet it showed the levels of their wisdom and intellect, wit and humour, ficition and realism. Anthropologists during the British period noticed that some tribes were given to more fantasy, whereas the other neighbouring tribes were rather realistic and were able to deal with crude realities of life.

The oral literature served to entertain as well as to give moral education and wisdom. In their community, a good story-teler or singer commanded special respect.

The myth and legends also meant to cherish religious and social values of their society. The book is a valuable treasure for the students of religion, literature, anthropology and folk culture.

In later chapter, it also charts the course of Kashmiri, Dogri and Nepali literature during the modern times separately (less)

This guide to eighteenth-century literature and culture provides students with the ideal introduction to literature and its context from 1688-1789 including: • The historical, cultural and intellectual background including the expansion of cultural production and the growth of ‘print culture’ • Major writers, genres and literary groups • Concise explanations of key terms needed to understand the literature and criticism • An overview of key critical approaches • A chronology mapping historical events and literary works and further reading including websites and electronic resources (less)

The literary expression of political consciousness and movements among or for the Dalits in North India is the new emerging trend. This trend has served enormously to the cause and widened its constituency.

The book explores relationship between politics and literature with a critical analysis of texts from the Hindi literature both by Dalits and non-Dalits. It underlines not only the major issues and concerns of the movements but also to demonstrate that political consciousness is also expressed through many more innovative and creative methods like art and literature (less)

Each entry begins with a straightforward definition, and is followed by explanation and examples. Each writer is defined by type, significant preoccupation and/or style, and a selection of notable works.

There are a number of entries on writers in a foreign language who have had a major influence on literature in English (less)

If Raja Raos Kanthapura Rushdies Midnights Children (1981) and Nissim Ezeliels Latter-day Psalms (1982) mark postmodernism in India English Literature. The present book aims at analyzing critically the Postmodern Indian English Literature genre-wise-poetry, fiction, short story, drama and autobiography, beginning from 1980 to the present-day works.

Important poets, novelists, short-story writers and playwrights like Nissim Ezeliel, .K.

Ramanujan, Jayanta Mahapatra, kamala das, Shiv K. Kumar, Keki N.

Daruwalla, Dom Moraes, Amitav ghosh, Shashi Tharoor, Anita Desai, Vikram seth, Arundhati Roy, Manju Kapur, Raj Kamal Jha and many others have been studied from a different perspective. The present book is comprehensive, analytical, self-contained and easily comprehensible.

It is hoped hat it would prove an asset to students who seek an introduction to Postmodern Indian English Literature and would be of particular appeal to all those persons interested in the diverse contributions of Indian English writers of repute (less)

‘A wide-ranging and eminently readable introduction..

(which) takes the students on a journey through key areas of historical, religious and social change and engages at every turn with current scholarship in a lively and thought-provoking manner…This is an ideal place to start for anyone turning to Renaissance literature for the first time’. Andrew Hiscock, University of Wales, Bangor This accessible introduction to English Renaissance literature and its context from 1500-1640 includes: • An overview of the historical, cultural and intellectual background including religion, politics, exploration and visual culture • A survey of the developments in key genres including discussion of major writers such as Spenser, Sidney, Marlowe, Shakespeare and Jonson • Concise explanations of key terms needed to understand the literature and criticism • A guide to key critical approaches • A chronology mapping historical events and literary works • Guided further reading including websites and electronic resources (less)

Quite a few illustrious scholars and critics, from across the world, engage in this volume with the works/texts of the icons of migrant literature from various countries with a select emphasis on Indian writers in English. The book is intended to serve all those, whether academics, creative writers or researchers, who are interface with a most flourishing genealogy of contemporary world literature, and to lead to true literary globalisation (less)

, Chokamela:The Poineer of Untouchable Movement in Maharashtra, the growth and evaluation of Dalit literature, Dalit Literary theory, Dalit feminism, Dalit poetry, distinctive voices of distress, outcaste in Tagore's poetry, the othered and unempowered in M.R.

Anand, the Dalit sensibility in the writings of Jim Corbett, Gujarati Dalit poetry, reversing centrality and marginality, Gujarati Dalit poetry and its origin and development, short stories in Gujarati Dalit Literature, Dalit in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things, Narendra Jadhavs Outcaste: A memoir and the psychodynamics of women in Shosh, a Gujarati Dalit novel (less)

The scholarly and critical analysis presented on the works of several American literary masters such as Emerson, Hawthorn, Poe, Whitman, Hemingway, O'Neill, Miller, Morrison, Walker, etc., by experts in the field of English Literature would unquestionably enable the readers gain a new insight into the interpretation of literary works (less)

S. Eliot and Gita, John Steinbect and the Bible, etc.

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This accessible introduction to Victorian literature and its contexts from 1837-1901 includes: • An overview of the historical, cultural and intellectual background including politics and economics, popular culture, philosophy and religion • A survey of the developments in key genres including discussion of major writers such as the Bronts, the Brownings, Collins, Dickens, Eliot, Gaskell, Hardy, Rossetti, Shaw, Swinburne, Tennyson and Wilde • Concise explanations of key terms needed to understand the literature and criticism • A guide to key critical approaches • A chronology mapping historical events and literary works • Guided further reading including websites and electronic resources (less)

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Special emphasis is given on evaluation of characterization, action, speech, style and structure of each great book. This all encompassing compendium of critical evaluation on the renowned work of these great authors brings to the fore various facets of artistic and creative literature and it is sincerely hoped that it will suit to the needs of students, teachers, researchers and general readers (less)

Seshadri, Prof. Of English, Annamalai university) is a humble attempt to present Indian responses to Commonwealth Poetry, Fiction, Short Story, Drama and Autobiography.

The 21 contributors (working in various universities in India), have made this book precious by way of their fruitful research and findings. Indian poets like Shiv K.

Kumar, Nissim Ezekiel, Tamil Sangam Poets have been taken by 3 contributors. Kamala Das has been analysed as an Indian Autobiographer by an academic.

Indian novelists like Mulk raj Anand, raja rao, jai Nimbkar and Basavaraj Naikar have been dealt with by four researchers. Indian Dramas of Vijay tendulkar, Girish karnad and tagore have been assessed by 5 contributors.

The west Indie poet Derek Walcott, Bangladesh novelist Taslima nasrin, New Zealand short story wtier Ihimaera; African novelist Nadine Goprdimer, dramatist Mugo are taken for study by five academics. Niogerian short story writers ben Ori Adewale maja-Pearce and Okey Chogbo, Ibeoma Okoye, zay ab Alkali, Sheila Fugard, Bessie Head and dramatist Ngugi Wa Thiang and Micere Githal Mugo have been estimated by three academics.

The twenty one critical essays throw more light on the different aspects of Commonwealth Literature in a lucid and appreciable style, which can be really useful to the students, researchers, and teachers of Commonwealth Literature. Do you like to have a glimpse of the literature of Africa, Bangla desh, India, new Zealand, Nigeria and the west Indies? (less)

The literature produced by Indian in Indian languages shares a unique quality of Indianness. Multilingualism is the very stuff of four nationhood.

There is a stream of unity in our myths, legends, forms, themes, trends and experiences. The present works Makers of Indian Literature contains about 1,000 entries.

While Vol. I covers the entries from A to L, Vol.

Il is devoted to the write-ups from M to Z. It is hoped that the writers included in the two volumes will give a comprhensive view of the may facets of Indian literature in all its splendour (less)

The subjects treated -- Dickens and Kipling, Edith Wharton and Ernest Hemingway, Joyce and Sophocles, and, perhaps most surprising, Jacques Casanova -- reveal the range and dexterity of Edmund Wilson's interests, his historical grasp, his learning, and his intellectual curiosity. The Wound and the Bow did not give rise to a new body of literary theory nor a new school of literary criticism.

Wilson's contributions were, rather, the animating and reanimating of the reputations of the artists he treats here and the often successful search for the sources of their literary artistry and craftsmanship. This reissue provides a forceful reminder that another of Wilson's critical functions was his role, as his friend E Scott Fitzgerald put it, as the "literary conscience of my generation".

The essays on Kipling and Hemingway, especially, suggest that one of the permanent contributions of this book is its forthright statements about the credo of intellectual honesty that must underlie any successful artistic work. His chastisements of these writers when he sees them allowing ego or politics to distort their rendering of people and society are clearer statements of artistic values than we have seen in a while.

Wilson's role as a moral barometer, as manifest in this book, is one which he continues to fulfill. "In the best tradition ofliterary criticism.

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