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Pandava volume 1
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"Aru Shah has a tendency to stretch the truth in order to fit in at her private middle school. While her classmates are jetting off to exotic vacations, she'll be spending her autumn break in the Museum of Ancient Indian Art and Culture that her mom curates. Is it any wonder Aru makes up stories about being royalty, traveling to Paris, and having a chauffeur? One day, three schoolmates show up at Aru's doorstep to catch her in a lie. They don't believe...
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The twenty-four papers in Philosophical Musings for a Meaningful Life study the poetry collections Winged Reason (2010), Write Son, Write (2011), and Multicultural Symphony (2014), of Dr. K.V. Dominic and reveal his humanistic values and concept of universal brotherhood, his social criticism devoid of absurdity and obscurity, his profound concern for the marginalized sections of society, and his reverence for Nature. All the papers focus on the poet's...
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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...
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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,...
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Arundhati Roy, activist par excellence has ardent skill of sketching the picture of the time and environment. She presents post sixties India before us. Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things: A Critical Exploration of Realism & Romance reveals the reality, barely and has been, a part of Roy's intention to cover the bare bones of story with details of social and historical setting and scenario, in order to give the reader a feel of patterns of living...
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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...
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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...
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New Literature in English is, related with the work in English in, the former British colonies as, Africa Australia, Canada, and Caribbean Countries, India, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, and USA. In this anthology there are twenty-seven papers that cover authors like 'Mahasweta Devi, Stphen Gill, Nissim Ezekiel, Girish Karnad, G.B. Shaw, Walt Whitman , David Mamet, Pearl S. Buck, Jhumpa Kiran Desai, Githa Hariharan, Bhabani Bhattacharya, Bharati Muk-heriee,...
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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
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Comprehensive overview of the work of Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh.
This is the first collection of international scholarship on the fiction of Amitav Ghosh. Ghosh's work is read by a wide audience and is well regarded by general readers, critics, and scholars throughout the world. Born in India, Ghosh has lived in India, the United Kingdom, and the United States. His work spans genres from contemporary realism to historical fiction to science fiction,...
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R.K. Narayan is the first modern Indian writer to make a full-time career out of literature. He is ranked among the greatest fiction writers of the world, Narayan presents a profound moral vision in his novels without being didactic. He is generally realistic and at the same time artistic. The present book "Artistic and Realistic Mode in R.K. Narayan's Fiction" reveals, as to how Narayan minutely observes the surrounding situation and presents it...
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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...
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Indian English poetry, which after independence breathed the air of freedom with an identity of its own, is rich in conception and execution. The charge that mere rubbish is being dished out in the name of Indian English poetry is not true. The poets who are rich in content as well as form remain in the field. The present anthology that includes twenty five articles and research papers attempts to evaluate the marginalized poets besides the established...
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R.K. Narayan is one of the most prominent novelists of Indian writing in English. His novels are full of realism and present mirror image of microcosmic India caught in the conventions, traditions and social changes. His characters are lively presentations of common Indians. Events reflect the real happenings of society. His heroines, are replica of common Indian women. Narayan, despite living like a pure Indian absorbed in religion and family, has...
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A terrifying sound disturbs the peace of Hansuli Turn, a forest village in Bengal, and the community splits as to its meaning. Does it herald the apocalyptic departure of the gods or is there a more rational explanation? The Kahars, inhabitants of Hansuli Turn, belong to an untouchable "criminal tribe" soon to be epically transformed by the effects of World War II and India's independence movement. Their headman, Bonwari, upholds the ethics of an...
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The book deals with some of the important trends, issues, authors and works of English literature and Indian writing in English in the form of short literary essays. Right from the Elizabethan age to the modern age, there are many influencing topics, which initiated literary revolution in different ages and the book rightly covers all related topics with the help of proper textual extracts, quotations of the critics and valuable remarks of the literary...
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In a work of stunning archival recovery and interpretive virtuosity, Priya Joshi illuminates the cultural work performed by two kinds of English novels in India during the colonial and postcolonial periods. Spanning the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, readers and writers, empire and nation, consumption and production, In Another Country vividly explores a process by which first readers and then writers of the English novel indigenized the once...
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In Stereotype confronts the importance of cultural stereotypes in shaping the ethics and reach of global literature. Mrinalini Chakravorty focuses on the seductive force and explanatory power of stereotypes in multiple South Asian contexts, whether depicting hunger, crowdedness, filth, slums, death, migrant flight, terror, or outsourcing. She argues that such commonplaces are crucial to defining cultural identity in contemporary literature and shows...
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