Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000

In this volume of writings from Bangla and Urdu literature, editors Rakhshanda Jalil and Debjani Sengupta raise issues of language, identity, nationhood and varied aspects of feminism and women's writings in the Indian subcontinent.

This highly original collection is a far cry from the demand on the literary humanities to offer the soothing hum of theory to a world of breaks, crises and pain.

The Distant Shores of Freedom analyses literary works in English written by Vietnamese refugees in the US.

This book offers the first sustained analysis of the interactions between British writers, propaganda and culture from the Second World War to the Cold War.

In September 1600, Queen Elizabeth and London are made to believe that the East India Company will change England's fortunes forever.

Uneasy Translations: Self, Experience and Indian Literature interweaves the personal journey of an academic into reflections around self, language and translation with an eye on the intangibly available category of experience.

India in Translation, Translation in India seeks to explore the contours of translation of and in India-how Indian texts travel around the world in translation, how Indian texts travel across languages in the subcontinent and how texts from various languages of the world travel to India.

Indian Travel Writing in the Age of Empire studies a variety of travel narratives by Indian kings, evangelists, statesmen, scholars, merchants, leisure travellers and reformers.

This book explores the dilemma of Bond's 'two selves' and his existential search for an identity.

Remember, Repeat, Inhabit looks at three questions in relation to the idea of the viewer: What happens when one reads someone else's reading of someone else?

India in Translation, Translation in India seeks to explore the contours of translation of and in India-how Indian texts travel around the world in translation, how Indian texts travel across languages in the subcontinent and how texts from various languages of the world travel to India.

This highly original collection is a far cry from the demand on the literary humanities to offer the soothing hum of theory to a world of breaks, crises and pain.

The book aims to introduce the Bengali writer (1948-2014) to a global audience through some of his short stories and poems in English translation and a series of critical essays on his works.

In this volume of writings from Bangla and Urdu literature, editors Rakhshanda Jalil and Debjani Sengupta raise issues of language, identity, nationhood and varied aspects of feminism and women's writings in the Indian subcontinent.

The Distant Shores of Freedom analyses literary works in English written by Vietnamese refugees in the US.

It is very hard to endure the bombs, Father.

Polycoloniality is a study of the activities of non-British European powers and players - primarily the Portuguese, the Dutch, the French, the Danish, the 'Germans' (representatives of the Austrian and Prussian empires), the Swedish and the Greek - in Bengal from the late 13th to the early 19th century, and their role in shaping Bengal's brush with 'colonial modernity' prior to, and possibly more foundationally than, the English.

Time, Doubt and Wonder in the Humanities addresses a serious lacuna in humanities studies.

India and the Traveller: Aspects of Travelling Identity, a collection of essays on travel writings related to India, focuses on the evolving persona of travelers to India as well as Indians journeying to other lands or within India.

Word, Work and the World begins with the assumption that people are interested in the world around them.

India and the Traveller: Aspects of Travelling Identity, a collection of essays on travel writings related to India, focuses on the evolving persona of travelers to India as well as Indians journeying to other lands or within India.

The plethora of commentary from highly respected voices in a broad cross-section of academic disciplines, which V.

In September 1600, Queen Elizabeth and London are made to believe that the East India Company will change England's fortunes forever.

Mired inside its rather archaic comprehension as a medical phenomenon, disability, for a long time now, has been ignored as a marker of identity.

World Literature and the Question of Genre in Colonial India describes the way Marathi literary culture, entrenched in performative modes of production and reception, saw the germination of a robust, script-centric dramatic culture owing to colonial networks of literary exchange and the newfound, wide availability of print technology.

Shortlisted for the British Society for Literature and Science (BSLS) Book Prize 2023Nominated, 2023 Teaching Literature Book AwardIndian Science Fiction has evolved over the years and can be seen making a mark for itself on the global scene.

Word, Work and the World begins with the assumption that people are interested in the world around them.

Two works in one, this volume contains the full text of With Her in Ourland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, as well as an illuminating sociological analysis by Mary Jo Deegan with the assistance of Michael R.

In the twentieth century, literature was under threat.

National literary histories based on internally homogeneous native traditions have significantly contributed to the construction of national identities, especially in multicultural East-Central Europe, the region between the German and Russian hegemonic cultural powers stretching from the Baltic states to the Balkans.

This book treats memory and understanding on two levels, on the phenomenological level of experience, on which a theory of dynamic conceptual semantics is built, and on the neuro-connectionist level, which supports the capacities of concept formation, remembering, and understanding.

Continuing the work undertaken in Vol.

The third volume in the History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe focuses on the making and remaking of those institutional structures that engender and regulate the creation, distribution, and reception of literature.

This study examines Marcel Proust's works and his readers, starting of with the reading encounter one needs in order not to miss out on things, and ending by exploring the nature of Proust's vision.

In this study the works of Wilhelm Raabe (1831-1910) are being discussed, taking into account the emerge of the perspectival narration, culminating in the Braunschweig period (1870-1920).

This study provides a critical analysis of the narrative works of Gunter Grass, under which Die Blechtrommel, Katz und Mann, Hundejahre und Der Butt.

Translating Poetic Discourse argues in favor of a critical model that bridges between translation and women's studies on theoretical and practical levels.

Breton's stature is much greater than that of a number of contemporaries who have received, already, far more attention from the critics than he.

Une analyse systematique et detaillee des fines strategies du secret et du desir de savoir a l'A vre entre les protagonistes de A la recherche du temps perdu, conduite a la lumiere de la theorie semiotique, et qui devoile, a travers le texte de Proust, la presence implicite d'une theorie et d'une esthetique de la connaissance.

A semiotic analysis is made of the six major plays by Eugene O'Neill and an attempt is made to yield a systematic analysis towards humanistic interpretations of texts.

Benito Perez Galdos sought a new narrative structure which would revitalize the literary models prevalent in 19th-century Spain.

In this brilliant overview of parodic praxis in the Spanish-American novel during the years 1960-1985, Elzbieta Skłodowska examines several aspects of parody: its role in the renovation of anachronistic forms of discourse (mock-epic) and the re-writing of the canon of the historical novel; its function in transgressing literary formulas (detective novel); its subversive quality in the counter-discourse of women writers; and the relation between parody, satire, irony, humor, and metafiction.

This study of the fictional themes and techniques of Michel Tournier reveals his profound radicalism as a social critic and novelist despite the seeming conventionality of his works.

Lorca's poetry is founded upon a complex symbolical system of recurring motifs.

The era of Russian Symbolism (1892-1917) has been called the Silver Age of Russian culture, and even the Second Golden Age.

William Faulkner was an aviation cadet in Canada in the closing days of WW I.

The papers collected in this volume capture some of the excitement of the 11th International James Joyce Symposium, held in Venice and Trieste, June 1988.

This book focusses on computer methodologies as a way of investigating language and character in literary texts.

Children's Literature and the Avant-Garde is the first study that investigates the intricate influence of the avant-garde movements on children's literature in different countries from the beginning of the 20th century until the present.