English Literature

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

The Good Grammar Book teaches all the grammar needed for speaking and writing in English. It explains the rules, shows how the language works, and gives plenty of practice. It can be used either with the coursebook in class or as extra practice at home.

BY ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL INDIAN WRITERS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY''The deftness with which Attia Hosain handles the interplay of manners, class, culture and different forms of female power is gorgeously done . . .'' KAMILA SHAMSIE''An extraordinary novel, with an extraordinary heroine'' MONICA ALI''A masterful examination of class, culture, family...

Marie de France (fl late twelfth century) is the earliest known French woman poet and her lais - stories in verse based on Breton tales of chivalry and romance - are among the finest of the genre. This book takes a subtle and complex view of courtly love.

The Oxford Companion to English Literature has long been established as the leading reference resource for students, teachers, scholars, and general readers of English literature. It provides unrivalled coverage of all aspects of English literature - from writers, their works, and the historical and cultural context in which they wrote,...

This anthology brings together the poems and short stories prescribed in the paper on Twentieth-Century Literature of the First BA English (Honours) course of the University of Delhi. These include works by both Indian writers writing originally in English and those writing in a variety of Indian languages but to...

Muhammad Bin Tughlaq, who ruled from Delhi in the fourteenth century, was a man of many dimensions. A well-read scholar of the arts, theology, and philosophy, a brilliant calligraphist, a mystic, as well as a poet, it is the 'madness' that earned him the epithet 'Mad Muhammad', that Karnad explores...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...