English Literature

This critical edition of the Mahabharata offers excerpts from the Sabha Parva and Udyoga Parva, translated by K M Ganguli. A detailed introduction opens important scholarly questions that are relevant to the excerpts. Essays and selections from some crucial academic research of scholars like Radhavallabh Tripathi, Sheldon Pollock, Alf Hiltebeitel,...

   

   

2 Details: 'The Odyssey is a poem of extraordinary pleasures: it is a salt-caked, storm-tossed, wine-dark treasury of tales, of many twists and turns, like life itself' GuardianThe epic tale of Odysseus and his ten-year journey home after the Trojan War forms one of the earliest and greatest works of...

  Binding: Single Issue Magazine Number Of Pages: 234 Release Date: 15-08-2023 Details: This edition, especially designed for undergraduate students of English Literature, offers and expansive introduction to Greek tragedy abd Antigone, along with the detialed annotated commentary on the play. It also comprises foundational essays on Antigone, followed by...

Pride and Prejudice, 'my own darling child' of Jane Austen has retianed its popularity with the reading public over the years. The novel examines the paradigm of courtship romance in the context of the social changes that overtook England following the French Revolution. Elizabeth's Bennet's with and independence of mind...

      Details: Lysistrata is the third and last of Aristophanes' peace plays. It is a dream peace, of how women could help to achieve an honourable settlement, conceieved when Athens was going through its blackest, most desperate crisis since the Persian War. Though in modern times, this is...

    F Number Of Pages: 248 Release Date: 19-10-2016 Details: On a cold February night in 1991, a group of soldiers and officers of the Indian Army pushed their way into two villages in Kashmir, seeking out militants assumed to be hiding there. They pulled the men out of...

  Binding: Paperback Release Date: 01-12-2021 EAN: 9789382267591 Package Dimensions: 5.9 x 2.4 x 0.8 inches Languages: English

   

  Binding: Perfect Paperback Number Of Pages: 316 EAN: 9788196231583 Languages: English

     

This edition of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night has been designed with the Indian undergraduate student in mind. The text is accompanied by full, clear notes, so that the student can easily make sense of the play. There is a comprehensive Introduction covering the play's title, date and sources, the figure of...

Hailed as a Shakespearean play, written a few centuries before shakespeare, Sudraka's Mrichchhakatika is one of the most significant Sanskrit dramas for more than a few reasons. Set in the ancient city of Ujjayani, Mrichchhakatika is "rife with romance, comedy, intrigue and a political subplot detailing the overthrow of the...

Placing Indian writing in a critical setting, through discussions in Introductions and short textual analyses, this book makes available to the reader a few texts ( short stories and poems) chosen for thier representation. 

  Details: Introduction to British Literature and Culture provide practical guides to key literacy periods. Guides in the series help to orientate students as they begin a new module or area of study, providing concise information on the historical, cultural, literary and critical context and acting as an initial map...

  Details: Is there anyone who has not seen the painting of the sturdy Iowa farmer with his pitchfork and his thin-lipped wife or daughter? Ever since it met the public eye in 1930, the work titled American Goth ...  

  Details: Walt Disney (1901-1966) was one of the most significant creative forces of the twentieth century, a man who made a lasting impact on the art of the animated film, the history of American business, and the evolution of twentieth-century American culture. He was both a creative visionary and...

  Details: This book covers the leading works and authors in the traditional canon of literature in English, and in doing so gives the reader an engaging and knowledgeable insight into the books, their writers, and the connections between them. From Austen to Shakespeare and covering classics favorites such as...

    Details: Early Modern English Drama: A Critical Companion is a collection of 27 contributed introductory essays on individual plays from the early modern period. Each essay, written by an authoritative scholar, addresses not only a play, but a specific cultural or literary epic, from London to the law,...

  Details: The text of this edition is that of Boswell's 1791 first edition, and it remains, by common consent, the greatest biography in the English language. Johnson's centrality in 18th century letters is established not only by Boswell's record of life and conversation, but also by the success of...

  Brand: Penguin Random House Binding: paperback Format: Import Number Of Pages: 98 Release Date: 01-07-2000 Part Number: RKC2008501800 Details: Product Description-- First paperback edition.-- Formally inventive and utterly joyous, Grabinoulor recounts the fantastic adventures of its light-hearted, satyric, eponymous hero as he visits other planets, time travels, and finds...

  Brand: Verso Color: Multicolor Binding: hardcover Format: Import Number Of Pages: 648 Release Date: 01-11-2000 Details: Product Description The Americas of the 1850s provides James Dunkerley with compelling material for this majestic and unorthodox book. Drawing on a range of contemporary sources, from Walt Whitman to Charles Darwin, Anthony...

   

  Details: This volume presents the authoritative Centenary Edition text of Hawthorne's classic novel. The text and essays are complemented by biographical and critical introductions, bibliographies and a glossary of critical and theoretical terms. This second edition includes five new critical essays and a selection of cultural documents and illustrations....

  Brand: Cambridge University Press Edition: 2 Binding: paperback Number Of Pages: 271 Release Date: 14-02-2011 Part Number: YES4278598 Details: Jane Austen's stock in the popular marketplace has never been higher, while academic studies continue to uncover new aspects of her engagement with her world. This fully updated edition of...

  Details: With their unique combination of biography and criticism, these engaging books serve as an excellent introduction to both the life and works of the world's literary masters. Spanning the canon, this accessible series covers those writers most often taught in schools. One of the great American novelists, Herman...

   

   

  Details: This book includes new critical essays by established scholars and young voices examining the variety of Indian literatures, from the poetry of Sri Sri to the fiction of Tagore, from the theatre of Mohan Rakesh to the verse of Jayanta Mahapatra.  

   

   

Binding: perfectNumber Of Pages: 240EAN: 9789382267973Languages: English

  Details: Set against the nationalist background of Swadeshi movement in Bengal in the early 20th century, Tagore's Ghore Baire (1916) dwells on the twin themes of nationalism and women's emancipation, especially of middle class traditional Bengali household. The English translation, 'At Home and Outside' (1918), was done by the...