Arts, Literature, and Humanities

Instead of approaching cultural theory as a set of pronouncements to be learnt, this book considers why lecturers, students and cultural producers ...

Lucid, entertaining and full of insight, How To Read A Poem is designed to banish the intimidation that too often attends the subject of poetry, an...

Man has evolved in the last stages of his evolution taking advantage of the cyclical and repetitive causality, the rhythm, the pattern, the spatio ...

How do we know what we "know"? How did we –as individuals and as a society – come to accept certain knowledge as fact? In Human Knowledge, Bertrand...

Are human rights part of the problem or part of the solution in the current 'clash of civilizations'? Drawing on a hitherto neglected body of work ...

This book engages with the discourses on human rights as they apply to the transgender or the hijra community in India, capturing not only their la...

Definitions of humanism have evolved throughout the centuries as the term has been adopted for a variety of purposes – literary, cultural and polit...

The book aims at an appraisal of R.N. Tagore’s novels in English translations. It highlights his thematic concerns and novelistic technique. The bo...

These volumes of the Sacred Books of the East series include transaltions of all the most important works of the seven non-christian religions.

I Will Wait For You ... begins in mirth, proceeds in suspense and mystery; the climax cuddles your blood and horror grips you. The denouement makes...

No discourse of modern criticism can ever be complete without discussing I.A. Richards whose influence combined with those of T.S. Eliot and F.R. L...

Identity and Gender in Postcolonial Multiculturalism covers the complexities of identity and gender in contemporary postcolonial British society, w...

This book explores the historical and cultural significance of comics in languages other than English, examining the geographic and linguistic sphe...

What we normally understand by culture is a document composed of specific signs, sounds and symbols. Some of these are self reflexive representatio...

Twentieth Century English Literature Was Shaped To A Great Extent By The Genius Of T.S. Eliot. His Towering Personality Illuminates The Major Genre...

This volume comprises about seventy poems mostly reflecting the desire of the poet’s subconscious mind to reach that component of truth, which rema...

This book examines how the contemporary Indian situation poses a strict theoretical challenge to Habermas’s theorization of the public sphere and e...

What is India? Can we understand it? Such questions demand multiple ways of answers and yet, the entire gamut of these answers, in spite of their l...