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How English has become a language of the people in Indiaーone that enables the state but also empowers protests against it Against a groundswell of critiques of global English, Vernacular English ar……続きを見る

Die Glücksritter - Josef Freiherr von Eichendorff - 1788 auf Schloss Lubowitz bei Ratibor als Sohn eines preußischen Offiziers geboren, genießt Joseph Karl Benedikt Freiherr von Eichendorff eine ari……続きを見る

Critical Essays on English and Bengali Detective Fiction brings together three strains of detective fiction: British, American, and Bengal. The import of detective fiction from Britain has influence……続きを見る

Global Migrancy and Diasporic Memory in the Work of Salman Rushdie examines Salman Rushdie’s major works for the ways that they consistently affirm the power of memory to construct a concrete, roote……続きを見る

A study of ‘AbhijñānaŚākuntalam’ has to situate the contexts in ancient through medieval Indian literature and scholarship before it comes to the colonial and the contemporary. In epistemological pr……続きを見る

As an ancient Indian poet-dramatist, Kālidāsa cannot be absorbed into the homogenizing tendencies of Hindu hagiography, as has often been attempted, especially in the period after independence. From……続きを見る

The Critical Edition of the Mahābhārata, completed between 1933 and 1966, represents a landmark in the textual history of an epic with a nearly 1500-year history. Not only is the epic massive (70,00……続きを見る

The Critical Edition of the Mahābhārata, completed between 1933 and 1966, represents a landmark in the textual history of an epic with a nearly 1500-year history. Not only is the epic massive (70,00……続きを見る

As an ancient Indian poet-dramatist, Kālidāsa cannot be absorbed into the homogenizing tendencies of Hindu hagiography, as has often been attempted, especially in the period after independence. From……続きを見る

Philology and Criticism contrasts the Mahābhārata’s preservation and transmission within the Indian scribal and commentarial traditions with Sanskrit philology after 1900, as German Indologists prop……続きを見る

How is the city represented through literature from the post-colonies? This book searches for an answer to this question, by keeping its focus on Indiaーfrom after Independence to the millennia. How……続きを見る

In 'Schetsen uit de Dierenwereld' neemt Daniel Giraud Elliot de lezer mee op een reis door de fascinerende wereld van dieren. Met levendige en gedetailleerde beschrijvingen brengt Elliot verschillen……続きを見る

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 concept……続きを見る

This book constitutes a feminist literary analysis of motherhood as presented in selected Indian women’s fictions across a diverse range of geographical, linguistic, class and caste contexts. Situat……続きを見る

Mired inside its rather archaic comprehension as a medical phenomenon, disability, for a long time now, has been ignored as a marker of identity. The world has only been busy in rectifying the absen……続きを見る

In Vintage Living Texts, teachers and students will find the essential guide to the works of Salman Rushdie. Vintage Living Texts is unique in that it offers an in-depth interview with Salman Rushdi……続きを見る

Konni Zilliacus, en mångsidig författare och diplomat, skrev boken 'Mariquita, och andra historier från verldens utkanter' som en samling av berättelser från olika delar av världen. Boken tar läsare……続きを見る

In most of his novels Rushdie is concerned with the problem of human identity in the postmodernist and postcolonial context characterized by hvbridity, displacement and multiculturalism. Rushdie bel……続きを見る

The anthology comprising twenty two papers is an attempt to study the select representative writers and some canonical works from different perspectives like narrative, stylistic, ecocritical and th……続きを見る

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……続きを見る

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 ……続きを見る

The present book is an attempt to explore Ted Hughes' extraordinary abilities as a shamanic poet. He carries with him healing powers like a shaman and believes that a poet can lead his readers to a ……続きを見る

R.K. Narayan is one of the most prominent novelists of Indian writing in English. His novels are full of realism and present mirror image of microcosmic India caught in the conventions, traditions a……続きを見る

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 crit……続きを見る

Like other national literatures, American literature was shaped by the history of the country that produced it. Boston in the 1630s, the high articulation of Puritan cultural ideals, and the early e……続きを見る

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 e……続きを見る

The volume "Paradigm Shift in Indian English Literature : From Local to Global" presents a comprehensive range of the dimensions and commitments of the stream of Indian English Literature covering a……続きを見る

New Literature in English is related with the work in English in the former British colonies as Africa Australia, Canada and Caribbean Countries, India, New Zealand, , Sri Lanka and USA. In this ant……続きを見る

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……続きを見る

The present volume is a comprehensive analytical study of the plays and theatrical art of Vijay Tendulkar with the focus on the process of decolonization of Indian theatre, Indian English drama move……続きを見る