Arts, Literature, and Humanities

The volume examines the discourse-based critique of coloniality. It brings together an extensive interdisciplinary dialogue that reveals what diffe...

Restoration Comedy has been attacked from different quarters for its immorality and profaneness. Eighteenth Century Comedy is very much the product...

What is comedy? Andrew Stott tackles this question through an investigation of comic forms, theories and techniques, tracing the historical definit...

Written at the height of the Cold War in 1959, Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare was published in an effort 'to prevent the catastrophe which would ...

Commonwealth literature continues to retain a separate identity in the twenty-first century, even though some of its creators do not favour the ter...

Commonwealth Literature: A Kaleidoscopic Vision contains critical articles on the well- known writers like Luis-de-Camões, A.D. Hope, A.J.M. Smith,...

There is no denying the fact that the ELT world has changed drastically from the teacher-oriented to a more learner-oriented one. Unfortunately, In...

This book probes into the marginalized communities of the Indian society through historical and contemporary societal perspectives. It discusses so...

The increasing atomization of modern society has been accompanied by an enduring nostalgia for the idea of community as a source of security and be...

The increasing individualism of modern Western society has been accompanied by an enduring nostalgia for the idea of community as a source of secur...

Brings together 48 fresh and original contributions from practicing poets and leading scholars, who together offer critical and contextual coverage...

Comparative English Literature, beginning with a wide-ranging discussion of the theoretical dimensions of the comparative study of literature, its ...

Comparative literature contains fifteen scholarly papers on theory and practice of this body of literature in our time. It makes an attempt to anal...

God did not make the man in His own image; it is the man who cast God in his image. Anthropomorphism is the new mantra. Since the Divine has been c...

The Explosive, controversial story of a young middle-class Indian, whose quest for the spiritual life takes him through the paces of ashram life—wh...

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater is Thomas De Quincey's autographical account. In it, he describes his opium and alcohol addiction and its eff...

This book examines the metanarratives promoted by the state that determine the ideological framework and how these respond under extraneous circums...

Conjectures and Refutations is one of Karl Popper's most wide-ranging and popular works, notable not only for its acute insight into the way scient...

The present book primarily aims at tracing influences central to both Ngugi and Anand, especially of Marx, Gandhi and Fanon in the constructions of...

A great novelist and short-story writer of the late nineteenth century, Joseph Conrad remains one of the most important literary figures of English...

The present book is an attempt to explore and examine the nature and status of consciousness in the intellectual traditions of the East and the Wes...

A prominent experience of the post-war European generation was the acute inquiry about whether life was intrinsically good or evil, and of the good...

This volume is one of the first wide-ranging academic surveys of the major types and categories of Jain praxis. It covers a breadth of scholarly vi...