English Literature

In a clear and readable style, Living with Theory maps out contemporary theory, tracing its complex configurations, its political preoccupations, a...

Home has always been a centre of contention, contestation, and construction. It has never been a constant—a truth that contemporary life asserts mo...

Lord Jim is a work of Joseph Conard’s maturity as a writer, and is one of the book which established him as a master storyteller and a great noveli...

Love's Labour's Lost, in five-acts, was written sometime between 1588 and 1597 and published in a quarto edition in 1598, with a title page suggest...

The Tragedy of Macbeth, or Macbeth, is one of his Shakespeare's shorter tragedies, and was probably written between 1599–1606, and is thought to ha...

Once considered scandalizingly immoral, Flaubert's exquisite debut novel unsparingly depicts a woman's gradual corruption and the human mind in sea...

The present anthology entitled Mahesh Dattani: Themes Techniques and Issues is an assortment of scholarly research papers on fresh perspectives and...

Major Barbara, a social satire in three acts, written in 1905 and published in 1907, is the most controversial of Shaw's works which mocks religiou...

G.B. Shaw is a literary Mohican who bestrode modern thought like a Colossus, but he was not a historian in a popular sense. He wrote many plays on ...

America is a country of immense diversity, home to people from heterogeneous ethnic, religious and social backgrounds. Over the years, American soc...

This book presents a reasonably comprehensive account of the development of the Indian English novel since Independence. The novel during the colon...

The book has extended and widened the implications of the term “New Literatures in English” to include an assessment of New Humanities and other ar...

Man and Superman, a four-Act drama, was written in 1903 as a response to those who had questioned Shaw as to why he had never written a play based ...

Mansfield Park is a unique novel in its moral design, with a heroine remarkably different from the author’s previous creations. This young lady, Mi...

Margaret Eleanor Atwood is a versatile artist in the Canadian literature. This book is an assessment of Atwood’s belief about the condition of wome...

Often a question is raised whether the marginalized can speak. It is a fact that the marginalized cannot stay voiceless for long, they have to spea...

Materials and Methods in ELT , Second Edition offers a comprehensive and practical introduction to central themes in the principles and practice of...

Since the first edition of this book was published in 2002 there have been many changes in language teaching, not least those associated with techn...

Measure for measure is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1603 or 1604. Originally published in the first Folio of 162...

One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. The life of Gregor Samsa,...

Poetry criticism is a subject central to the study of literature. However, it is laden with technical terms that, to the beginning student, can be ...