Frank Carlson Library

"Carefully leveled text and vibrant photographs introduce readers to a variety of India's foods and cultural practices. Includes picture glossary and index."--

Sheetal Mistry, a rising high school junior who is half-star, half-human, must win a competition in the starry court to save her human father.--

Join us on a poetic journey to the soul of India.

The book 'Studies in Indian English Political Fiction' a comprehensive study of the genre of political fiction, which undoubtedly is the most overwhelming genre of fiction in Indian English Literature. The book is conceived in six parts. The Chapter-I is an analysis of the genre of Political fiction with a view to establishing its identity. Further, it is an attempt to set parameters for the idea of excellence in Political fiction. The Chapter- 2...

The genre referred to as the Indian short story in English is more expansive and faithful to the nuances of a multicultural, diverse nation like India than the Indian novel in English. This genre has produced abundant creative variety but limited critical appraisal. The Indian Short Story in English, the first wide ranging study of its kind, addresses this need. This book studies collections of short stories against changing social and political mores,...

The noble idea behind the book is, to deal with the life of children reflecting, a vision of their world, their rights, and how best they can be, protected in an adult domain. This book is entirely, devoted to promote spirit of adventure and values such as compassion, tolerance, sympathy, respect, and concern for other, rational and scientific outlook, humanism, felling of social justice and national integration and respect of cultural heritage, national...

Indian writers with artistic skill wove many interesting things into the fabric of their creative writings. The telling of the tale is interesting, and emits a unique aroma that captured the readers of all sections in India and abroad. The fictional world of the Indian Writers in English reflects contemporary life, present problems and changing human values The new nations in the making, the old traditions crumbling and the brave new world that rose...

1. Swami: Post-Colonial Bildungsroman 9 2. Swami: An Indian Schoolboy Fiction 13 3. Characters in Swami and Friends 17 4. Realism in R.K. Narayan's Novels 21 5. Tradition and Modernity in The Guide 25 6. The Guide: A Hindu Novel 31 7. The Ending of The Guide 35 8. Velan's Character in The Guide 39 9. Works Cited 41

William Butler Yeats is, regarded as the most important Irish poet and as one of the major poets of the twentieth century poetry in English. But, readers and researchers often complain that the books on Yeats criticism tend to deal with a particular phase or a particular aspect of his poetic art and therefore the idea of comprehensive study of his poetic art remains but a mirage. The present book WB. Yeats: images, Echoes and Aesthetics endeavors...

Interrogating the Canon: Literature and Pedagogy of Dalits is a collection of research articles written on different occasions primarily exploring the alternative histories of language and literature informed by the postcolonial thrust of interrogating the canon. Though varied in themes, the running thread of the articles has been critiquing the exclusivist nature of the literary establishment, and arguing a case for literary inclusion of the dalit...