Novel As An Art Form: With Special Reference to Anglo-Indian Artists (Second & Revised Edition)

With this book an effort has been made to reassert that Anglo-Indian novel is an established genre today and Indian artists can be ranked with British and American novelists. The book gives a comprehensive view of artistic presentation of characters and events in the novels and provides in-depth analyses of the art form in the studied novels. It studies novel as a portrait of life and attaches due importance to the characters of the novels. It considers characterization in the novels and discusses how actual feelings, likes, dislikes, passions, and obsessions have got to be painted so as to convince the readers that the character of the novel is related to life. It also studies ethics in the novels and discusses how the theory of art is used for the sake of morality in the novels. It takes into consideration feminism and highlights the socio-economic and ethico-political rights of women in the studied novels. It also discusses style of presentation of narratives in the novels, and studies how the novelist makes ‘accurate judgment of style’ to share his thoughts with the readers.
The basic aim of this book is to encourage Indian readers to become creative artists like R.K. Narayan, Mulk Raj Anand, Bharati Mukherjee, E.M. Forster and others. Creative artists are not super human beings—Just they catch hold their ideas that come to their mind and then develop them in their personal language. They are great because they know what to write and how to express their thoughts.