E.M. Forster masterpiece a passage to India has remained consistently popular and is widely studied in India. It has also emerged as the most controversial of all his works. Ever since its first publication, it has received both enthusiastic applause and corrosive criticism for various reasons across geographical and cultural frontiers. The available corpus of criticism on the novel, quite voluminous and often contrapuntal, can reasonably baffle and intrigue the young students. Keeping in view the needs of the students of our universities, This in-depth study of the book with reference to its various facets has been prepared in a lucid style. The author has penetrated the text with sensitive insight and scholarly command from varied angles of genesis, historical setting, title, themes, structure, characters, narrative technique including symbols, rhythm, language, intertextual echoes, and imperial and postcolonial discourses. In addition to providing an introduction, a story-outline, a detailed critical summary of the entire text, a select bibliography and Sample questions have been given. The book will be immensely useful to students, scholars and teachers in the area.

Rama Kundu is a full Professor of English. She has been teaching in the Postgraduate Department of English, Burdwan University, West Bengal, since 1976. She is the author of several books, namely Vision and Design in Hardy’s Fiction, Wrestling With God: Studies in English Devotional Poetry, Anita Desai’s Fire on the Mountain, New Perspectives on British Authors: From William Shakespeare to Graham Greene. Anandamath O Sampradaikta (on Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay). She has also edited an anthology of research papers on Rabindranath Tagore’s The Home and the World, a collection of essays on Thomas Hardy, two volumes of critical studies on Indian Writing in English, four anthologies of Studies in Women Writers in English, two volumes of critical essays on Salman Rushdie, and recently a festschrift, Widening Horizons: Essays in Honour of Professor Mohit K. Ray, in addition to translating a volume of poems into English—On the Revolving Stage. She has written a large number of research papers published in scholarly journals and anthologies in India and abroad. Professor Kundu has participated and chaired sessions in a large number of National and International Seminars and Conferences and did several stints in Europe.

• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
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• Publication Date: July 10, 2007
• Pages: 296
• ISBN13: 9788126908370
• Item Weight: 520 grams
• Original Price: 550.0 INR
• Edition: N/A
• Binding: Hardcover