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...

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

    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...

     

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. 

  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...

   

  Details: This volume brings together the poems of Pablo Neruda, Derek Walcott and Margaret Atwood annotated extensively for students of English Literature. Essays by eminent critics have been chosen to provide biographical information and widen critical discourse. They discuss the major poetical works of the three poets, citing stylistic...

   

   

  Details: This book introduces the reader to some of the major ideas and viewpoints of nineteenth century Europe. These emerged at a time when the western societies entered a phase of crisis and faced important alternative paradigms such as evolution, atheism, gender justice, culture and socialism Including short essays...

   

   

  Brand: Cengage Learning   Features: A Glossary of Literary Terms From Cengage Learning India It ensures you get the best usage for a longer period   Details: First published over fifty years ago, A GLOSSARY OF LITERARY TERMS remains an essential text for all serious students of literature. Now...