Arts, Literature, and Humanities

A.K. Ramanujan represents the quintessential Indian English poet engaged in a relentless quest for self in the welter of tradition and contemporary...

The poetry of Jayanta Mahapatra (fourth revised and enlarged edition, 2009) is an incisive and well-researched book. It makes an in-depth analysis ...

The book presents some of the unexplored facts about Keats’ poetry. Keats has been an important poet of romanticism. The poetic works of John Keats...

John Keats was one of the main figures of the second generation of romantic poets along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley. He belonged to a ...

Nissim Ezekiel is probably the most famous living Indian poet in English. Displaying a dedication of heroic dimensions to his vocation, he has crea...

The Poetry of Robert Browning is a major study of Browning and his art. It marks an improvement over the earlier studies of Browning’s poetry in th...

This book fulfils the difficult task of quickening, and elucidating, fortifying and enlarging the poetry of two important poets of our time: Robert...

The Poetry of T.S. Eliot offers an interpretation of Eliot's poetry in the Indian context, examining its intersections with the viewpoints of Weste...

The lasting fame and influence of Tennyson must rest upon the great works into which he has put the fullness of his strength and the freshness of h...

The present anthology of interpretative essays and research papers is a unique effort to approach the great nineteenth-century American poet Walt W...

The Poetry of William Shakespeare includes Shakespeare’s sonnets in complete along with his longer poems Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, and...

This book explores the ‘folk’ performance genre of Kobigaan, a dialogic song-theatre form in which performers verse-duel in contemporary West Benga...

The Portrait of a Lady (1881) is Henry James's early novel of psychological realism, in which various types of American character are transplanted ...

The 1980’s and after has created a typical post-modern anxiety with the advent of Salman Rushdie as an influential diaspora writer. This book is co...

“…they see in poverty nothing but poverty, without seeing in it the revolutionary, subversive side, which will overthrow the old society.”The Pover...

The prince contains a number of maxims concerning politics. It states that in order to retain power, the hereditary prince must carefully maintain ...

What is the fate of two unknowingly identical boys who exchange their lives? The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain is a historical satire set in ...

Before Jane Eyre, The Professor was the first novel written by Charlotte Bronte. It was published posthumously in 1857 and remains a classic among ...

Max Weber's best-known and most controversial work, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, first published in 1904, remains to this day...

To gain a deeper understanding of the literary movement that has dominated recent Anglo-American literary criticism, The Pursuit of Signs is a must...

This book analyses regional expressions of the queer experience in texts available in the Indian vernacular languages. It studies queer autobiograp...