English Literature

  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...

     

        Details: Critical commentary is provided in essays by H. R. Trevor-roper, R. S. Allen, J. Huizinga, Mikhail Bakhtin, Paul Oskar kristeller and Robert M. Adams. also included are a chronology of Erasmus's life and a selected bibliography.  

    Details: In recent years, book historians have begun to look beyond the boundaries of the nations-state, and to consider how a transnational perspective might help to measure a fuller reach of the book's histories and geographies. The transnational turn in the book history questions previously fixed historiographic categories...

    Details: How has India’s foreign policy evolved in the seventy years since Independence? For that matter, what is the country’s foreign policy? And what are the aspects that determine and shape it? If you’ve had questions such as these, Rajendra Abhyankar’s Indian Diplomacy is the foreign policy primer...

         

This concise introduction to the concept of ideology provides an overview of the term and considers its impact on literary theory. James M. Decker analyzes the history of Western ideology from its pre-Enlightenment roots to its current incarnations, providing readers with both an essential overview of key terms and issues...

    Details: The first volume of A History of English Literature covers literature from the Anglo-Saxon period to the early eighteenth century. Divided into five sections, this volume delves into the socio-political and cultural context of different monarchical eras and sets various literary works against this backdrop. The book...

  Details: Medieval discourses of masculinity and male sexuality were closely linked to the idea and representation of work as a male responsibility. Isabel Davis identifies a discourse of masculine selfhood which is preoccupied with the ethics of labour and domestic living. She analyses how five major London writers of...

   

  Details: The first new English translation of Rousseau's eighteenth-century masterpiece on education in more than seventy years offers a prescription for the bringing up of autonomous, responsible, truly democratic human beings  

New historicism and cultural materialism emerged in the early 1980s as prominent literary theories and came to represent a revival of interest in history and in historicising literature. Their proponents rejected both formalist criticism and earlier attempts to read literature in its historical context and defined new ways of thinking...

   

  Details: Alain Badiou (1937- ) is one of the most high profile and controversial philosophers writing in France today. A leading light in the generation of thinkers who come of intellectual age in 1968, his work deftly draws on a wide range of intellectual traditions and thinkers from Plato...

      Details: Gilles Deleuze was one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century philosophy, well known for his works on the philosophy of art and for his master-works, Difference and Repetition and - with Felix Guattari - A Thousand Plateaus and Anti-Oedipus. Cinema I is the first volume...

   

    Details: With a new foreword by Paul Kelly 'I regard Hayek's work as a new opening of the most fundamental debate in the field of political philosophy' ? Sir Karl Popper 'This promises to be the crowning work of a scholar who has devoted a lifetime to thinking?...

   

    Details: Alain Badiou is arguably the most original and influential philosopher working in France today. Working against the tide of postmodern orthodoxy, Badiou revitalizes philosophy's perennial attempt to provide a systematic theory of truth. Theoretical Writings presents, in Badiou's own words, `the theoretical core of [his] Philosophy'. Beginning...

    Details: Theodor Adorno (1903-69) was undoubtedly the foremost thinker of the Frankfurt School, the influential group of German thinkers that fled to the US in the 1930s, including such thinkers as Herbert Marcuse and Max Horkheimer. His work has proved enormously influential in sociology, philosophy and cultural theory....

    Details: The twentieth century was marked by the triumph of the 'analytic' tradition of philosophy, which remains to this day the dominant mainstream of philosophical thought and teaching. In his landmark reflection and exploration of the origins of analytic philosophy, Michael Dummett vividly explores the roots of that...

      Details: Since its publication in 1968, Difference and Repetition, an exposition of the critique of identity, has come to be considered a contemporary classic in philosophy and one of Gilles Deleuze's most important works. The text follows the development of two central concepts, those of pure difference...

      Details: Logics of Worlds is the sequel to Alain Badiou's masterpiece, Being and Event. Tackling the questions that had been left open by Being and Event, and answering many of his critics in the process, Badiou supplements his pioneering treatment of multiple being with a daring and...

  Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing India Edition: Reprint Binding: Paperback Number Of Pages: 144 Release Date: 25-04-2013 Details: In his most important work, Max Horkheimer surveys and demonstrates the gradual ascendancy of Reason in Western philosophy, its eventual total application to all spheres of life, and what he considers its present...

    Details: The Modes of Modern Writing tackles some of the fundamental questions we all encounter when studying or reading literature, such as: what is literature? What is realism? What is relationship between form and content? And what dictates the shifts in literary fashions and tastes? In answering these...