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  • (Re)Framing Women in Post-Millennial Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran

    Remediated Witnessing in Literary, Visual, and Digital Media

    Series series Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
    This book critically examines the representational politics of women in post-millennial Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran across a range of literary, visual, and digital media. Introducing the conceptual model of remediated witnessing, the book contemplates the ways in which meaning is constructed, deconstructed, and reconstructed as a consequence of its (re)production and (re)distribution. In what ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • A Companion to Short Literary Essays

    The book deals with some of the important trends, issues, authors and works of English literature and Indian writing in English in the form of short literary essays. Right from the Elizabethan age to the modern age, there are many influencing topics which initiated literary revolution in different ages and the book rightly covers all related topics with the help of proper textual extracts, ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • A Critical History of English Literature

    by Kanchan Jain ...
    One of the key developments in late-20th-century American literature was the rise to prominence of literature written by and about ethnic minorities beyond African Americans and Jewish Americans, who had already established their literary inheritances. This development came alongside the growth of the Civil Rights movements and its corollary, the Ethnic Pride movement, which led to the creation of ... Read more

    $129.99 USD

  • A Critical Study of R.K. Narayan's

    Swami and Friends and The Guide

    by Ruby Roy ...
    Swami: Post-Colonial Bildungsroman 9 2. Swami: An Indian Schoolboy Fiction 13 3. Characters in Swami and Friends 17 4. Realism in R.K. Narayan's Novels 21 5. Tradition and Modernity in The Guide 25 6. The Guide: A Hindu Novel 31 7. The Ending of The Guide 35 8. Velan's Character in The Guide 39 9. Works Cited 41 ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • A Critical Study Of Shakespearean Tragedy

    Shakespearean tragedy is the classification of drama written by William Shakespeare which has a noble protagonist, who is flawed in some way, placed in a stressful heightened situation and ends with a fatal conclusion. The plots of Shakespearean tragedy focus on the reversal of fortune of the central character(s) which leads to their ruin and ultimately, death. Shakespearean tragedy usually works ... Read more

    $201.99 USD

  • A Critics In English Drama

    Drama was introduced to England from Europe by the Romans, and auditoriums were constructed across the country for this purpose. By the medieval period, the mummers’ plays had developed, a form of early street theatre associated with the Morris dance, concentrating on themes such as Saint George and the Dragon and Robin Hood. These were folk tales retelling old stories, and the actors travelled ... Read more

    $201.99 USD

  • A Critics In English Literature

    English literature is the study of literature written in the English language. The writers do not necessarily have to be from England but can be from all over the world. It includes some of history’s most famous writers: James Joyce (Ireland), William Shakespeare (England), Mark Twain (United States), Arthur Conan Doyle (Scotland), Dylan Thomas (Wales), and Vladimir Nabokov (Russia), just to name ... Read more

    $201.99 USD

  • A Diasporic Mythography

    Myth, Legend and Memory in the Literature of the Indian Diaspora

    by P.M. Biswas ...
    A Diasporic Mythography: Myth, Legend and Memory in the Literature of the Indian Diaspora is a collection of essays on how diasporic Indian authors living in the West use myth and legend to reconnect with India.Looking at works from Salman Rushdie, Shashi Tharoor, Suniti Namjoshi and Vikram Chandra, the analysis will revolve around three major points: first, that the Indian diaspora is a crucible ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Handbook Of Literary Criticism

    Literary criticism is the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. Modern literary criticism is often influenced by literary theory, which is the philosophical discussion of literature’s goals and methods. Though the two activities are closely related, literary critics are not always, and have not always been, theorists. Whether or not literary criticism should be considered a separate ... Read more

    $201.99 USD

  • A Map of Longings

    The Life and Works of Agha Shahid Ali

    by Manan Kapoor ...
    The beautifully written first biography of one of the world’s finest twentieth-century poetsAgha Shahid Ali (1949–2001) was one of the most celebrated American poets of the latter twentieth century, and his works have touched millions of lives around the world. Traversing multiple geographies, cultures, religions, and traditions, he mapped the varied landscapes of the Indian subcontinent and the ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • A New Finding on the Unsung English Poets

    A Stylistic Introduction

    We are made to assume, by the available works on the history of Indian writing in English, that all the writers of yesteryears have been identified, analyzed and assessed exhaustively and nothing more remains to be explored. However, there have been several Indian writers who wrote good amounts of literature in English, but still, the literary world is not aware of such writers and their works. ... Read more

    $5.50 USD

  • A Short History Of English Language

    by Khushboo ...
    The history of the English language really started with the arrival of three Germanic tribes who invaded Britain during the 5th century AD. These tribes, the Angles, the Saxons and the Jutes, crossed the North Sea from what today is Denmark and northern Germany. At that time the inhabitants of Britain spoke a Celtic language. But most of the Celtic speakers were pushed west and north by the ... Read more

    $201.99 USD

  • Aloha to Mount Fuji

    This story is one of sixteen stories from CHAIRS.The voices are those of Bangkok based freelance journalists and their invited guests. Each Saturday morning, over coffee, the members of Chairs gather to share the latest gossip, scandals, myths, dangers, exploits, and loves that bind together their small community. Sam Kohl is a narrator of the main stories, and Sam reveals, with perfect timing and ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • American Literary Studies in Postmillennial India

    Critical Perspectives

    American Literary Studies in Postmillennial India: Critical Perspectives is a collection of critical essays on Contemporary American Literature. This book is a classic and unique collection of critical essays on various topics such as Americanness, American Dream, Transcendentalism, Counterculture, Gay culture, Post Communism, Race, Class, Gender in American Literature, African American literature ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • An Introduction to Indian Aesthetics

    History, Theory, and Theoreticians

    The thinkers and philosophers of ancient India contemplated intensively and extensively about all aspects related to life, and art was one of the major domains they touched upon. A profound and intense analysis of the art experience in literature naturally led to the evolution of one of the most sophisticated and long-standing poetic systems in the world.An Introduction to Indian Aesthetics: ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • An Introduction To Literary Criticism

    A very basic way of thinking about literary theory is that these ideas act as different lenses critics use to view and talk about art, literature, and even culture. These different lenses allow critics to consider works of art based on certain assumptions within that school of theory. The different lenses also allow critics to focus on particular aspects of a work they consider important. While ... Read more

    $201.99 USD

  • Another Asia

    Rabindranath Tagore and Okakura Tenshin

    The book weaves through an intricate tapestry of ideas relating to pan-Asianism, nationalism, cosmopolitanism, and friendship, and positions the early modernist tensions of the period within—and against—the spectre of a unified Asia that concealed considerable political differences. The book draws on pan-Asian works such as The Ideals of the East and The Awakening of the East, in counterpoint to ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Anxieties of Empire and the Fiction of Intrigue

    Focusing on late nineteenth- and twentieth-century stories of detection, policing, and espionage by British and South Asian writers, Yumna Siddiqi presents an original and compelling exploration of the cultural anxieties created by imperialism. She suggests that while colonial writers use narratives of intrigue to endorse imperial rule, postcolonial writers turn the generic conventions and ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Arjuna–Odysseus

    Shared Heritage in Indian and Greek Epic

    by N. J. Allen ...
    Bringing together the study of the Greek classics and Indology, Arjuna–Odysseus provides a comparative analysis of the shared heritage of the Mahābhārata and early Greek traditions presented in the texts of Homer and Hesiod.Building on the ethnographic theories of Durkheim, Mauss, and Dumont, the volume explores the convergences and rapprochements between the Mahābhārata and the Greektexts. In ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Arranging Marriage

    Conjugal Agency in the South Asian Diaspora

    by Marian Aguiar ...
    The first critical analysis of contemporary arranged marriage among South Asians in a global contextArranged marriage is an institution of global fascination—an object of curiosity, revulsion, outrage, and even envy. Marian Aguiar provides the first sustained analysis of arranged marriage as a transnational cultural phenomenon, revealing how its meaning has been continuously reinvented within the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Artistic and Realistic Mode in R.K. Narayan’s Fiction

    R.K. Narayan is the first modern Indian writer to make a full-time career out of literature. He is ranked among the greatest fiction writers of the world, Narayan presents a profound moral vision in his novels without being didactic. He is generally realistic and at the same time artistic. The present book "Artistic and Realistic Mode in R.K. Narayan's Fiction" reveals as to how Narayan minutely ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things

    A Critical Exploration of Realism & Romance

    Arundhati Roy, activist par excellance has ardent skill of sketching the picture of the time and environment. She presents post sixties India before us. Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things: A Critical Exploration of Realism & Romance reveals the reality barely and has been a part of Roy's intention to cover the bare bones of story with details of social and historical setting and scenario in ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Assured Self, Restive Self

    Encounters with Crisis

    The book explores the encounter of the self with situations of crisis from diverse disciplinary and cultural perspectives from antiquity to contemporary times.A crisis is at once a historically situated phenomenon and a recurring idea of endangerment or a breakdown in creaturely living. By making our choices stark and difficult, crisis opens up the possibility for genuinely fresh and unexpected ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • Away

    The Indian Writer as an Expatriate

    Edited by Amitava Kumar ...
    For more than a generation, Indian writers in English have won praise in the West. The roll call of Indian-born writers is startling: Rushdie, Mukerjee, Mehta, Ghosh, Naipaul, Kureishi, Narayan, Mistry, among many others.Amitava Kumar, himself an Indian writer now 'away' in America, is editing a broad anthology of work by Indian writers whose lives and literary identities have been formed by their ... Read more

    $48.99 USD