English Literature

This book deals with the study of style in language, how styles can be recognized, and their features. It examines how style is used in literary and non-literary texts, and how familiarity with style is a matter of socialization. The author also discusses the relationship between text and discourse, the...

Examining the caste system, culture, religious rules, and traditions, as well as the ambivalent relationship between handed-down cultural values and the new values of a changing world, Samskara looks at deeper moral and philosophical issues like how to lead a righteous life, the validity of customs, and the concept of...

Virginia Woolf's 1925 novel, Mrs Dalloway, is a landmark in modernist/feminist writing, and this Worldview Critical Edition provides the opportunity to make its reading a complete experience. Along with annotated text, it offers a wide range of supporting material so that the student/scholar can situate the novel in its proper...

The volume includes critical essays by Frank Kermode, John Goode, Ross C Murfin, Aruna Sitesh and Sikander Lal . They cover various aspects of Sons and Lovers— from the sociological to the psychoanalytical, from the feminist to the structural. A Lucid introduction focusing on the significance of Sons and Lovers,...

This volume presents a selection of short stories and poetry for the study of the ‘Women’s Writing’ paper in the English (Hons.) curriculum for undergraduate students, under the Choice Based Credits System (CBCS). The poetry section engages with the poetry of Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, and Eunice de Souza, while...

First published in 1818, reprinted in 1823, revised and reissued in 1831, Frankenstein has since seen a series of re-working. Read variously as a cautionary fable against Faustian ambition, a feminist critique of "male" science/Romanticism, an allegorization of class relations or an ambivalent exploration of the human psyche, Frankenstein invites...

William Congreve (1670-1729) was an English playwright and poet who was one of the leading practitioners of Restoration comedy of manners, a sub-genre marked by a realistic though satiric portrayal of the fashionable customs, affected manners and sexually licentious behavior of the social beau-monde, witty language and verbal sex duels....

Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy is narrated by the title character in a series of digressions and interruptions that purportedly show the "life and opinions" - part of the novel's full title - of Tristram. Composed of nine "Books" originally published between 1759-1767, the novel has more to do with Shandy...

This edition of Dryden's MacFlecknoe includes an extensive introduction to the historical, cultural and literary contexts of the poem, along with a specific focus on the polemical play between Dryden and Shadwell. Following the fully-annotated text is a section that provides the student with the primary and secondary readings related...

This critical companion attempts to provide an apparatus for reading Tintin comics academically beyond the apparent innocence of considering them only for pleasure reading. It focuses on Tintin in Tibet as a case study but also explores the world of Tintin comics as such. Critical and focused reading of popular...

What is popular fiction? The answer to this question, zigzagging from concerns of re-presentation and verisimilitude to the modulating forces of the market, is as complex as the question seems simple. Almost all cultural products produced in today's age find themselves tied intricately to the generic bifurcation of the high...

his book attempts to introduce science fiction studies to undergraduate students and young researchers and promises to acquaint them with a variety of creative expressions that this genre has produced. Additionally, it tries to give them a sense of the theoretical paradigms within which SF is located. The five SF...

This reader introduces six American poets and short Story writers whose works span five centuries from the seventeenth to the twenty-first. The short stories and poems are supplemented with additional readings as well as critical and contextual essays. The critical introductions for the poetry and the prose sections consider that...

The Shadow Lines, which won the Sahitya Akademi Award, is a book that captures the times and events of the permanent rupture that was created by the Partition not only in terms of the division of the sub-continent, but also in regard to the permanent dislocation of the individual psyche...

Lights Out is based on an eyewitness account. The characters are fictional. The incident is a fact. In real life, as in the play, a group of ordinary middle-class people chose to stand and watch while a woman was being brutalized in a neighbouring compound. In real life, as in...

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This edition of William Shakespeare's Othello introduces some basic aspects of Shakespeare's life and the theatre of the period, along with a detailed discussion of the play. The introduction intends to make students think critically about issues the play focuses upon.

This edition of William Shakespeare's As You Like It is annotated to meet the requirements of Literature students. It has original articles written specially for this text that read the play through the theories of feminism and marxism, and from the standpoint of socio-political outsider. The aim of this edition...

This edition of The Book of Job provides a fully annotated text in the New International Version (NIV) of the Bible. The King James Version (KJV) is included for comparison and to enable the modern reader to fully appreciate the poetical quality that is often lost in the NIV. Joban...

This edition of Readings in Classical Literature contains the shorter prescribed texts for the European Classical Literature paper for the students of English in the Delhi University CBCS Programme. It includes Horace's Satires and Epistles Book 1, Satire 4 translated by Naill Rudd Selections from Ovid's Metamorphoses translated and with...

The Story of a Childhood and The Story of a Return The intelligent and outspoken child of radical Marxists, and the great-grandaughter of Iran's last emperor, Satrapi bears witness to a childhood uniquely entwined with the history of her country. Persepolis paints an unforgettable portrait of daily life in Iran...

By the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in LiteratureLONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE'One scarcely dares breathe while reading it for fear of breaking the enchantment' The Times'Gurnah is a master storyteller' Financial Times_______________On a late November afternoon Saleh Omar arrives at Gatwick Airport from Zanzibar, a far away island...

Toni Morrison's Pulitzer-winning 1987 novel, Beloved, is in many ways an iconic work of African-American literature as much as it is within the canon of what comprises literature in English today. A widely read, studied, critiqued, and analysed text, this magical realist narrative incorporates many themes that Morrison broaches across...

Clear Light Of Day is a novel that focuses on misunderstandings in a family, the ability to forgive, and the value of love. This book is heart touching, engaging, and semi-autobiographical in nature. Summary Of The Book Clear Light Of Day, originally published in 1980, focuses on the importance of...

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