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  • 在印度之外-印度海外作家研究

    by 尹锡南 ...
    《"在印度之外":印度海外作家研究》共分六章。第一章介绍了赛特的生平和总体创作情况。第二章以《如意郎君》的思想内容为研究对象,指出这部作品对西方文化、世俗主义和宗教宽容、印度现代化发展以及中产阶级壮大等社会问题的看法。接下来的四章从空间、性别、结构和语言等几方面对小说进行研究。第三章从后现代地理学的角度切入,指出了作家虚构的布拉姆普尔城象征了50年代初期的印度,还分析了文本内部空间象征手法的运用。第四章从性别研究的角度,分析了《如意郎君》中的男性和女性形象构建与更新一代人物所承载的象征意义。第五章重点研究《如意郎君》的叙事结构。第六章对赛特的本土语言与英语使用情况进行分析,并指出其中的文化象征意义。 ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • 三國演義 第五卷

    Romance of the Three Kingdoms Vol 5

    by 羅貫中 ...
    Series Book 5 - 世紀文學之三國演義
    《三國演義》全名為《三國志通俗演義》,又稱作《三國志傳》、《三國全傳》、《三國英雄志傳》,是中國第一部長篇歷史章回小說。作者一般被認為是元末明初的羅貫中。虛實結合,曲盡其妙,是四大名著中唯一根據歷史事實改編之小說。明末清初文學家、戲曲家李漁有言曰:“演義一書之奇,足以使學士讀之而快,委巷不學之人讀之而亦快;英雄豪傑讀之而快,凡夫俗子讀之而亦快。 ... Read more

    $8.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • “Not of an Age, but for All Time”

    Revolutionary Humanism in Iqbal, Manto, and Faiz

    by Abdul Jabbar ...
    The world can derive much enlightenment from Muhammad Iqbal, Saadat Hasan Manto, and Faiz Ahmed Faiz—three of the greatest twentieth-century authors featured in this book. All of them believed and taught through their writings that the world should be led by principles that transcend territorial, religious, and cultural divides and serve the essential needs of all human beings. Iqbal’s works teach ... Read more

    $92.99 USD

  • নৈঃশব্দের প্রতিবাদ্

    নৈশব্দের প্রতিবাদ এটি একটি সুন্দর কবিতা বই ...অনেক ধরনের কবিতা এই বই এ পাওয়া যাবে.বিভিন্ন বিষয়ের উপর ছন্দসহ কবিতা গুলি লেখা আছে...কবিতা গুলু পড়লে সাম্প্রতিক সমাজ ব্যবস্থা সম্পর্কে একটি সুন্দর ধারণা তৈরি হবে .বাংলা ভাষা শিখতে এই বই এর কবিতা খুব কাজে লাগবে...প্রচুর নুতুন শব্দ শিখতে পৰ যাবে..বইটি পারে পাঠক খুব অন্যান্ড্স লাভ করবেন. ... Read more

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  • धम्बाेझी

    Dhambojhi

    “निचे चले रेल के पहिया, औ उपर जहाज हवाई !चिन्तम मरिगा लौन्डा, करके याद लुगाई ! हे चिन्तम में ....।”यो रत्नेशको आवाज थियो ।“ओइ धोती तँ पनि आइपुगिस् ?” विक्रमले भन्यो ।“अरे यार, विक्रम दाजु । अस्ति अबदेखि मलाई धोती नभन्ने सम्झौता भएको हैन ? फेरि बोलिहाल्नुभो ! मैले कहिले धोती लगाएको देख्नुभएको छ ? तपाईं जस्तै बुसर्ट र पैन्ट त लगाउँछु । हाँ, लेकिन बात यो छ कि, तपाईं थैलेन्डको लाउनुहुन्छ, म चैनाको,” ... Read more

    $3.32 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Writing Resistance

    The Rhetorical Imagination of Hindi Dalit Literature

    by Laura Brueck ...
    Series series South Asia Across the Disciplines
    Writing Resistance is the first close study of the growing body of contemporary Hindi-language Dalit (low caste) literature in India. The Dalit literary movement has had an immense sociopolitical and literary impact on various Indian linguistic regions, yet few scholars have attempted to situate the form within contemporary critical frameworks. Laura R. Brueck's approach goes beyond recognizing ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Writing Gender, Writing Nation

    Women’s Fiction in Post-Independence India

    by Bharti Arora ...
    This book explores the gendered contexts of the Indian nation through a rigorous analysis of selected women’s fiction ranging from diverse linguistic, geographical, caste, class, and regional contexts.Indian women’s writing across languages, texts, and contexts constitutes a unique narrative of the post-independence nation. This volume highlights the ways in which women writers negotiate the ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Writers Editors Critics (WEC)

    Vol. 6, No. 2 (Sep. 2016)

    Writers Editors Critics (WEC) An International Biannual Refereed Journal of English Language and LiteratureVolume 6 Number 2 (September 2016)ISSN: 2231-198XSpecial Issue: a tribute to Indian poet Mahasweta Devi (14 January 1926 - 28 July 2016)A Poetic Tribute to Mahasweta Devi - K. V. DominicMahasweta Devi: Death cannot Claim a Valiant Soul - Ketaki DattaMahasweta Devi: Fourth World Literature for ... Read more

    $4.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Writers Editors Critics (WEC)

    Vol. 7, No. 2 (September 2017)

    Writers Editors Critics (WEC) An International Biannual Refereed Journal of English Language and LiteratureVolume 7, Number 2 (September 2017)ISSN: 2231-198XRESEARCH ARTICLESSharan Speaks: Colours of Resistance and Emancipation on the White Paper - Jaydeep SarangiKahlil Gibran's The Prophet: An Appraisal of Life Skills - S. KumaranAnalyzing Intertextuality in Paulo Coelho's Manuscript Found in ... Read more

    $4.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Writers Editors Critics (WEC)

    Vol. 7, No. 1 (March 2017)

    Writers Editors Critics (WEC) An International Biannual Refereed Journal of English Language and LiteratureVolume 7 Number 1 (March 2017)ISSN: 2231 - 198XRESEARCH PAPERSThe Confessional Voice and Rebellious Cry of Kamala Das as Visualized in her Poetical Works: A Brief Analysis - S. ChelliahThe Philosopher-Scientist A. P. J. Abdul Kalam and his World View: A Study - J. PamelaArtificial ... Read more

    $4.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Worlds Woven Together

    Essays on Poetry and Poetics

    Series series Literature Now
    Writing about poetry follows models provided either by academic scholarship or literary journalism, each with its pitfalls. The former distances the reader from the poem and effaces the critic’s personality. In literary journalism, the critic is front and center, but the discussion is introductory and prioritizes value judgments. In either case, entrenched practices and patterns of privilege limit ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • World Literature Decentered

    Beyond the “West” through Turkey, Mexico and Bengal

    by Ian Almond ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Comparative Literature
    What would world literature look like, if we stopped referring to the “West”? Starting with the provocative premise that the “‘West’ is ten percent of the planet”, World Literature Decentered is the first book to decenter Eurocentric discourses of global literature and global history – not just by deconstructing or historicizing them, but by actively providing an alternative. Looking at a series ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Work, Word and the World

    Essays on Habitat, Culture and Environment

    Word, Work and the World begins with the assumption that people are interested in the world around them. The book is written with the intent of drawing in lay and specialised readers into the interdisciplinary world of Sociology/Social Anthropology. The methods of both, since the 1960s, has been seen as combined for the reasons that the dichotomy of tribal/ peasant in relation to urban ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • Wonders and Splendours in Indian Fiction in English

    Indian writers with artistic skill wove many interesting things into the fabric of their creative writings. The telling of the tale is interesting, and emits a unique aroma that captured the readers of all sections in India and abroad. The fictional world of the Indian Writers in English reflects contemporary life, present problems and changing human values The new nations in the making, the old ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Women on Women

    Indian Women Writers' Perspectives on Women

    Women's writing has become the focus of academic discourse in present times. There are books on women in Indian English literature and there are books on Indian literature in translation but there is not yet a book that foregrounds Women in Indian writing by women. I take this approach because I feel there is a need to understand and study Indian literature as an unsegregated whole, in the light ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Wisdom as a Way of Life

    Theravāda Buddhism Reimagined

    This wide-ranging and powerful book argues that Theravāda Buddhism provides ways of thinking about the self that can reinvigorate the humanities and offer broader insights into how to learn and how to act. Steven Collins argues that Buddhist philosophy should be approached in the spirit of its historical teachers and visionaries, who saw themselves not as preservers of an archaic body of rules but ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • When Mirrors Are Windows

    A View of A.K. Ramanujan’s Poetics

    In an ocean where myriads of rivers converge, can one sole river lend the ocean its distinct flavour? For someone who is at home with several languages, literary traditions and disciplines, is it possible for one form to criss-cross the landscape of another? In a poet’s world of mirrors, where stream and earth are sky, one may ‘sometimes count every orange on a tree’, but can one count ‘all the ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • W.B. Yeats Images, Echoes and Aesthetics

    by Tushar Vyas ...
    William Butler Yeats is regarded as the most important Irish poet and as one of the major poets of the twentieth century poetry in English. But readers and researchers often complain that the books on Yeats criticism tend to deal with a particular phase or a particular aspect of his poetic art and therefore the idea of comprehensive study of his poetic art remains but a mirage. The present book WB ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Voice of the Buddha

    Buddhaghosa on the Immeasurable Words

    by Maria Heim ...
    What would a Buddhist theory of texts look like through the lens of the 5th-century thinker Buddhaghosa? In Voice of the Buddha, Maria Heim reads from the principal commentator, editor, and translator of the Theravada intellectual tradition, yielding fresh insight into all three collections of the early Pali texts: Vinaya, the Suttas, and the Abhidhamma. Buddhaghosa considered the Buddha to be ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

  • Violent Belongings

    Partition, Gender, and National Culture in Postcolonial India

    by Kavita Daiya ...
    Focusing on the historical and contemporary narration of the Partition of India, Violent Belongings examines transnational South Asian culture from 1947 onwards. Spanning the Indian subcontinent and its diasporas in the United Kingdom and the United States, it asks how postcolonial/diasporic literature (eg., Rushdie, Mistry, Sidwa and Lahiri), Bollywood film, personal testimonies and journalism ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Vernacular English

    Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India

    by Akshya Saxena ...
    Series Book 45 - Translation/Transnation
    How English has become a language of the people in India—one that enables the state but also empowers protests against itAgainst a groundswell of critiques of global English, Vernacular English argues that literary studies are yet to confront the true political import of the English language in the world today. A comparative study of three centuries of English literature and media in India, this ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Vedic literature

    Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, also known as Chattopadhyay (1838-1894) was an Indian novelist, poet, essayist and journalist. Born in the village of Kanthalpara, Naihati, in an orthodox Bengali Brahmin family, is widely regarded as a key figure in literary renaissance of Bengal as well as the broader Indian subcontinent. Some of his writings, including novels, essays and commentaries, broke away from ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Variegated Narratives of Indian English Fiction

    Creative writing in English finds a steady growth in the post-colonial India and both its quantity and variety are so huge that literature in any other Indian language fails to compete with it. One of the reasons behind this is contribution to this variety by litterateurs from all the major linguistic communities of India as Indian English has been accepted across the country as their Link ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • V. S. Naipaul's Journeys

    From Periphery to Center

    The author of more than thirty books of fiction and nonfiction and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, V. S. Naipaul (1932–2018) is one of the most acclaimed authors of the twentieth century. He is also one of the most controversial. Before settling in England, Naipaul grew up in Trinidad in an Indian immigrant community, and his depiction of colonized peoples has often been harshly judged by ... Read more

    $31.99 USD