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,...

  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...

    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...

   

      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...

   

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...

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...

This anthology offers a curated collection of short stories, poetry, and life narratives designed for the Women’s Writing paper in the English (Hons.) curriculum under the National Education Policy (NEP) for undergraduate students. The poetry section features the works of Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, and Eunice de Souza, while the...

This elegantly written book offers an unexpected and unprecedented account of blindness and sight. Legally blind since the age of eleven, Georgina Kleege draws on her experiences to offer a detailed testimony of visual impairment—both her own view of the world and the world’s view of the blind. “I hope...

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. 

This critical edition of the play provides a fully annotated B text version(1616) of Dr. Faustus with additional primary sources and background material. It caters to the requirement of the students and scholars who are studying the play in relation to its broader philosophical, theoretical, literary and historical context. It...

  Details: This Student Edition of Brecht's anti-war masterpiece features an extensiveintroduction and commentary that includes a plot summary, discussion ofthe context, themes, characters, style and language as well asquestions for further study and notes on words and phrases in the text.It is the perfect edition for students of theatre...

     

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

Rhinoceros is a play by Eugène Ionesco, written in 1959. The play was included in Martin Esslin's study of post-war avant-garde drama The Theatre of the Absurd, although scholars have also rejected this label as too interpretatively narrow. Over the course of three acts, the inhabitants of a small, provincial...

About the Author Henrik Ibsen was born at Skien in Norway in 1828. He was one of the earliest writers to dramatise the individual's alienation from society. Although never fully appreciated during his lifetime, he has since come to be recognised as one of the greatest dramatists and the 'Father...

According to Raymond Williams Modern European drama is " a record of difficulty and struggle, a major creative achievement of the great periods of dramatic history , a major creative achievement of our own civilization  which gives us a continuing understanding , imagination and courage . The worlds of naturalism...

Brit Kotwal breaks his legs eleven times before he is five years old. His teeth crumble and chip if he tries to bite into anything. It was his sister Dolly’s idea to call him Brit, short for brittle, because of his bones. Besides, Parsees don’t really like long first-names, and...

This edition  is aimed at both the  English with marginal glosses of all the unfamiliar words. Substantial explanatory notes on the facing page also supply full background information on each of the social groups and occupations represented in Chaucer's gallery of characters. The Introduction covers Chaucer's life and experience inside...

In the Pardoner’s Prologue and Tale, Chaucer provides us with the fascinating picture of a medieval conman who habitually profits from the faith of the simple villagers. But his attempt to impress a more educated audience fails disastrously. The Pardoner is motivated not only by greed but by a desire...

This edition of Chaucer's General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales is aimed at both the first time reader of Chaucer's Middle English with marginal glosses of all the unfamiliar words. Substantial explanatory notes on the facing page also supply full background information on each of the social groups and occupations...

Aphra Behn (1640-1689), a bold and courageous voice in the literature of the Restoration period, has been in the focus of academic critical attention in the last two decades. As a result of this growing interest in her writing among scholars, Aphra Behn has come to be recognized not merely...

This edition of Paradise lost Book1 adopts a modern spelling version of the 1674text and add full annotations in order to make Milton's poem easily accessible to the student  Paradise Lost Book I is set almost at the beginning of time , before human beings were created . How then...

This edition positions the play in the socio-cultural context of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Macbeth is analysed here in terms of the changing political scenario that influenced attitudes and perspectives of the time. The reader will find this book useful for its range of perspectives that are...

    Details: The Fyodor Dostoevsky (Deluxe Hardbound Edition) is a definitive collection that celebrates the genius of one of the greatest novelists in history. Dostoevsky is known for his deep psychological insight and philosophical depth. His exploration of human suffering, morality, and redemption continues to captivate readers worldwide. This...

  Details: Immerse yourself in the timeless wisdom of Rumi, one of the greatest mystical poets of all time. This beautifully crafted deluxe edition brings together his most profound works, including selections from The Masnavi and Dīvān-i Shams-i Tabrīz, along with enchanting ghazals and illuminating Sufi anecdotes. Discover the depth...

This anthology builds upon a set of primary texts—Herman Melville’s short story “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” and poems by Walt Whitman and Sherman Alexie. The overarching objective is to organize and explicate the wide corpus of writings that have been authored within the cultures of the United States of America. The...

  Details: Andha Yug by Dharamveer Bharti is a seminal play set during the final day of the Mahabharata war. It explores themes of violence, moral dilemmas, and ethical redemption. Written shortly after India's partition, this powerful narrative delves into the impact of war on society. Available in both Hindi...

    Details: Product Description This is an introduction to pragmatics, the study of how people make sense of each other linguistically. The author explains, and illustrates, basic concepts such as the co-operative principle, deixis, and speech acts, providing a clear, concise foundation for further study.Review 'The strength of this...

   

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

This critical edition to the poetry of the first generation Romantics, William Blake, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge introduces the readers to some of thier most well known poems. This volume seeks to present a detailed picture of this complex cultural and artistic movement called Romanticism. With extensive notes...

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...

Literary and Cultural Disability Studies: A Primer is a seminal collection that brings together personal narratives, critical essays, poetry, and fiction to explore the multifaceted dimensions of disability in literature and culture. The opening section sets the stage with foundational essays that unpack the evolving terrain of disability studies. The...

This Student Edition of Brecht's anti-war masterpiece features an extensiveintroduction and commentary that includes a plot summary, discussion ofthe context, themes, characters, style and language as well asquestions for further study and notes on words and phrases in the text.It is the perfect edition for students of theatre and literature.In...

The classic, PULITZER PRIZE-winning novel that made Alice Walker a household name.Set in the deep American South between the wars, THE COLOR PURPLE is the classic tale of Celie, a young black girl born into poverty and segregation. Raped repeatedly by the man she calls 'father', she has two children...

Modern Indian Writing in English Translation is being introduced as a self-contained paper for the first time in the University of Delhi. The present anthology, probably the first multilingual collection in the undergraduate course, goes well beyond the ambit of the syllabus. In addition to giving easy access to the...

This Worldview Critical Edition of Kate Chopin's 1899 novel The Awakening presents the complete, unabridged, and annotated text to its readers. The introduction to the volume places the text in the various contexts of its production, reception, and circulation. It also underlines the near-perfect marriage of formal and thematic concerns...

Angaliyat tells the story of oppression and exclusion by transforming the vanquished into the victor, by turning the periphery into the core. The portrayal of Methi and Kanku as 'pure' women challenges the age-old perceptions of higher castes which denigrate the practice of remarriage among 'backward' communities. The stepchild who...

Terrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she lived as a slave for so many years until she escaped to Ohio. Her new life is full of hope but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe's new home is not only haunted by...

This edition of the vicar Wakefield present the complete and unabridged text to its readers . It has an introduction that places the works in the various contexts of its production that places the various contexts of its production , circulation  and reception .

This edition of The Rape of the Lock provides a fully annotated text of the poem in its final five-canto version. The original two-canto version is included for comparison, as well as several short poems and extracts from Pope's other works illustrating his attitudes to women, his views on poetic...

This Edition with an exhaustive introduction and notes , foregrounds the political and literary contexts of the first few decades of the eighteenth centaury . Tracing the pre text ,it locates swift's masterpiece amongst  the amorphous prose fiction and partisan wring of the turbulent prose fiction and partisan writing of...