Trends and Techniques in Contemporary Indian English Poetry

Rama Nair, ed.

The anthology makes a survey of the trends and techniques in contemporary Indian English poetry. A critical perspective of the poetic development over the last two decades is essential to promote a greater self-awareness, a more accurate knowledge of native traditions and a greater insight into their modern transformations. A comparative perspective can lead to further insights into the well-known cultural traits of Indian history and literature such as eclecticism, multi-lingualism and multi-culturalism.

ISBN: 81-7551-114-1                      Rs. 500 | USD 25


The Poetry and Translations of A.K. Ramanujan

Rama Nair

A.K.Ramanujan holds a unique position in modern Indian poetic scene. His original poetry in English has its roots in his translations. A comparative study of Ramanujan's translation and his original poetic work in English affirms a contextualisation in terms of themes, motifs and structures. The influence of his translated works on his poetry has been assimulated to such a degree that one can speak of analogies and relational studies. The book attempts a study of this relationship

ISBN: 81-7551-119-2                      Rs. 300 | USD 15


Six Women Poets:A Cross-Cultural Study

Mina Surjit Singh

The book examines the works of six representative poets—from India and America—who in their writings reflect a desire for freedom from gender oppression as also from age-old stifling traditions. The book studies cross-culturally the poetry of Emily Dickinson and Sarojini Naidu, Sylvia Plath and Kamala Das, Adrienne Rich & Mamta Kalia.

ISBN: 81-7551-143-5                      Rs. 500 | USD 25


Indian Renaissance and Indian English Poetry

Subhas Chandra Saha

Indian Renaissance took birth in the 19th century Bengal. Indian English poetry originated from Calcutta. The author discusses and analyses the connections and interactions between the two phenomena and establishes that Indian English poetry originated as an inevitable outcome of the historical situation in India at that particular point of time.

ISBN: 81-7551-035-8                      Rs. 300 | USD 15


The Poetry of Jayanta Mahapatra

Rabindra K. Swain

Jayanta Mahapatra is one of the foremost poets writing in English today. The present book makes a pioneering attempt to trace the socio-cultural forces that have gone into the shaping of the poet's language and vision.

ISBN: 81-7551-085-4                      Rs. 400 | USD 20


Jayanta Mahapatra: The Poet

R. Shankar

The book shows that a characteristic trait of Jayanta Mahapatra's poetry is the depiction of India and Hindu religion, with its various rituals and myths. The book argues that Mahapatra is humanist in the trinity of religion, culture and time. In exploring these themes, he makes an indefatigable quest, rendering his poetry a harmonious whole.

ISBN: 81-7551-145-1                      Rs. 400 | USD 20

Indian Drama Today

M. Sarat Babu

The book makes an in-depth study of the theme of cultural deformity in its variegated aspects as revealed in the plays of Mohan Rakesh, Girish Karnad, Vijay Tendulkar and Badal Sircar. The focus is on six cultural deformities: gender, social, political, physical, mental and spiritual, and a full-length chapter is devoted to each.

ISBN: 81-7551-026-9                      Rs. 300 | USD 15


Flowering of Indian Drama: Growth and Development

K.V. Reddy and R.K. Dhawan, ed.

The book makes an innovative attempt at offering a wide and comprehensive gallery of Indian playwrights, evaluating their significant works. Included in the volume are writers like Tagore, Asif Currimbhoy, Girish Karnad, Vijay Tendulkar, Mahasweta Devi and Mahesh Dattani.

ISBN: 81-7551-152-4                      Rs. 400 | USD 20


Three Indian Playwrights: Tagore, Badal Sircar and Mahasweta Devi

R.K. Dhawan, ed.

Indian drama in English and regional languages is characterized by a rich variety in themes and technique. Tagore, Sircar and Mahasweta Devi are Bengali writers who have contributed to the growth of Indian drama. The book discusses some major plays by these writers, highlighting their characteristic traits.

ISBN: 81-7551-159-1                      Rs. 400 | USD 20


New Directions in Indian Drama

Sudhakar Pandey and Freya Barua, ed.

The anthology is designed to introduce to a wider audience India's most important contemporary dramatists Vijay Tendulkar, Badal Sircar and Girish Karnad and to give analytic and critical assessments of their work.

ISBN: 81-85218-78-1                      Rs. 300 | USD 15


Studies in Contemporary Indian Drama

Sudhakar Pandey & Taraporewala, ed.

The volume brings together a series of scholarly papers on contemporary Indian drama and theatre. It includes perceptive studies on Girish Karnad, Vijay Tendulkar, Nissim Ezekiel, Badal Sircar and Mohan Rakesh.

ISBN: 81-85218-18-8                      Rs. 300 | USD 15


Jayashankar Prasad's Chandragupta: A Study

Sanjeev Kumar

The book offers a comparative study of Chandragupta , a play written by Hindi playwright Jayshankar Prasad and also by Bengali writer Dwijendralal Roy. There are several affinities and differences between the two versions of the same play, making great contribution to Indian literature.

ISBN: 81-7851-021-9                      Rs. 400 | USD 20


The Plays of Mahasweta Devi

E. Satyanarayana

Mahasweta Devi is one of the few writers in India with an unflinching commitment and passion for the underdog. She is an activist-writer and has been awarded the Jnanpith Award, the highest literary prize in India. The book, while making a close study of the thematic concerns in Mahasweta Devi's five plays, attempts to show the uniqueness of her dramatic vision and her artistic excellence.

ISBN: 81-7551-081-1                      Rs. 400 | USD 20


The Plays of Girish Karnad: Critical Perspectives

Jaydipsinh Dodiya, ed.

Karnad is regarded as one of the three great writers of the contemporary Indian drama, the other two being Vijay Tendulkar and Badal Sircar. His significant plays include Yayati, Tughlaq, Naga-Mandala, Tale-Danda & Hayavadana . The book, comprising more than thirty scholarly papers, offers a critical appraisal of Karnad as a dramatist and provides varied perspectives on his major plays.

ISBN: 81-7551-061-7                      Rs. 500 | USD 25


The Indian Imagination of Girish Karnad

P. Dhanavel

The book critically examines various themes viz. humanism, identity crisis, literary genetics, condensation and desire for recognition in the plays of Girish Karnad, with a focus on his most representative play Hayavadana. The analysis reveals that Karnad's plays are steeped in an imagination which is truly Indian in character.

ISBN: 81-7551-077-3                      Rs. 300 | USD 15


Three Plays of Girish Karnad: A Study in Poetics and Culture

Vanashree Tripathi

The book critically examines Girish Karnad's concern as a playwright with poetics and culture. It offers a close reading of the three plays— Hayavadana , Tale-Danda and The Fire and the Rain —testifying the playwright's growth from being an experimenter to a consummate theorist of drama.

ISBN: 81-7551-151-6                       Rs. 400 | USD 20


Girish Karnad's Hayavadana : A Critical Study

L.S. Gill

Hayavadana is one of the best plays of Karnad. The book offers a thorough study of the play covering all aspects.

ISBN: 81-7851-020-0                      Rs. 400 | USD 20


The Plays of Mahesh Dattani

R.K. Dhawan and Tanu Pant, ed.

Mahesh Dattani is the foremost Indian English dramatist today. The pioneering study makes an attempt at evaluating the major plays of Dattani in terms of themes and technique.

ISBN: 81-7551-160-5                      Rs. 400 | USD 20


Vijay Tendulkar's Ghashiram Kotwal : A Reader's Companion

M. Sarat Babu

Vijay Tendulkar has dominated Indian literary scene for more than three decades. His popular play Ghashiram Kotwal is based on the historical conflict between Nana Phadnavis and his henchman Ghashiram Kotwal. The book offers an exhaustive critical commentary on the play, followed by scholarly essays by eminent scholars.

ISBN: 81-7851-008-1                      Rs. 400 | USD 20


Vijay Tendulkar's GhashiramKotwal : Critical Perspectives

Vinod Bala Sharma, ed.

In the first section, the editor introduces the playwright and his works with a focus on his famous play Ghashiram Kotwal ; the second section contains critical perspectives on the play by eminent drama critics.

ISBN: 81-7851-002-2                      Rs. 400 | USD 20


Mohan Rakesh's Halfway House

Critical Perspectives

Subhash Chandra, ed.

Mohan Rakesh, recipient of Sangeet Natak Akademi Award twice, was a versatile writer who experimented with many genres: short stories, novels and plays. His plays Aashadh Ka Ek Din, Lehron Ke Rajhans and Aadhe-Adhure lent a new dignity to the Hindi theatre. The present book explores the mystique of Rakesh, taking up Halfway House ( Aadhe-Adhure ) for a detailed critical analysis.

ISBN: 81-7851-004-9                      Rs. 500 | USD 25

Women's Studies

Feminism and the Individual

Kalpana R.J.

The focus of the book is on woman as an individual. It discusses, in context with the given theme, the fiction of Anita Desai, Kamala Markandaya, Shashi Deshpande, Namita Gokhale and Suniti Namjoshi.

ISBN: 81-7551-156-7                      Rs. 400 | USD 20


Feminism and Family

Kalpana R.J.

The book discusses the boundaries and methodologies of Feminist Consciousness. It highlights the cultural oppressiveness of the state of motherhood with reference to the novels of Anita Desai, Kamala Markandaya, Nayantara Sahgal and Shashi Deshpande.

ISBN: 81-7551-155-9                      Rs. 400 | USD 20


Feminism and Sexual Poetics

Kalpana R.J.

The focus of the book is on women poets who have portrayed the struggle between traditional strictures and raised feminist consciousness of the women today. The poets discussed are: Kamala Das, Sujata Bhatt, Mamta Kalia, Imtiaz Dharker, Suniti Namjoshi and Eunice de Souza.

ISBN: 81-7551-157-6                      Rs. 400 | USD 20


The Feminine Voice in Indian Fiction

S.P. Swain

The volume highlights feminine voice articulated in the recent fiction by writers like Shashi Deshpande, Anita Desai, Bharati Mukherjee, Shobha De and Arundhati Roy. The book projects the awakening, ushered in by the feminist movement in India.

ISBN: 81-7551-157-6                      Rs. 400 | USD 20


Recent Trends in Women's Poetry

Manju Jaidka

The book attempts a survey of some of the important themes and ideas that emerged in women's poetry of the twentieth century. A close study of the works of five major women writers—Anne Sexton, Margaret Atwood, Sylvia Plath, Kamala Das, Anna Akhmatova—reveals that in each individual poet, the effort is to focus on one main theme which becomes representative of a large concern with the position of women viewed against diverse cultural & social background.

ISBN: 81-7551-091-9                      Rs. 300 | USD 15


Patterns of Feminist Consciousness in Indian Women Writers

Anuradha Roy

The book is a significant comparative study of five selected novels on the basis of different patterns of evolving feminist consciousness depicted in the narratives. It makes a rich contribution to the growing corpus of feminist criticism on the fiction of Anita Desai, Nayantara Sahgal, Attia Hosain, Rama Mehta and Shashi Deshpande.

ISBN: 81-7551-064-1                      Rs. 400 | USD 20


Nayantara Sahgal and Doris Lessing: A Feminist Study in Comparison

Neena Arora

The book attempts a fresh and revealing comparative study of the selected works of Nayantara Sahgal and Doris Lessing from the feminist stance. Both Lessing and Sahgal depict women suffering due to sexist bias in the patriarchal society, and they envision a world which should be based on equality and harmony between the two sexes.

ISBN: 81-85218-31-5                      Rs. 300 | USD 15


Feminism & American Literature

R.K. Dhawan, ed.

The anthology makes a comprehensive survey of feminism and the woman's question in terms of contemporary literary writing in America. The focus of the book is on the Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison. There are perceptive articles on Sylvia Plath, Tennessee Williams, Adrienne Kennedy, Maria Irene Fornes, John Steinbeck, J.D. Salinger, Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Walker and Willa Cather.

ISBN: 81-7551-025-0                      Rs. 300 | USD 15


Feminism & Modern American Poetry

Annamma Joseph

The book attempts a critical analysis of the poetry of three significant modern American poets Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton and Adrienne Rich from a feminist perspective. These women poets transcend the conventional literary and ideological norms in order to create a woman-centered universe. The study explores the different routes through which they arrive at a poetics of feminist experience.

ISBN: 81-7551-009-9                      Rs. 300 | USD 15


Black Women's Writing: Quest for Identity

Y.S. Sharadha

Black women's writing has registered a phenomenal growth in the recent years. Lorraine Hansberry and Ntozake Shange are outstanding black women playwrights whose portraits of black life and culture are characterized by a vision distinctively feminine and different from that of many black male dramatists of the period. The focus is on a reassessment of black literature in an attempt to discover multiple black feminine styles.

ISBN: 81-7551-038-2                      Rs. 400 | USD 20


Women's Voices: The Novels of Indian Women Writers

K. Meera Bai

The book is a brilliant study of feminine sensibility at work in the fiction of Indian women writers, with a focus on Anita Desai, Kamala Markandaya, Nayantara Sahgal and Ruth Jhabvala.

ISBN: 81-7551-004-8                      Rs. 300 | USD 15


A Feminist Perspective on the Fiction of Virginia Woolf

Sulabha Naik

The book offers a feminist critique on the fiction of Virginia Woolf, one of the most significant novelists of the 20th century. Virginia Woolf is the first major novelist in English who deals with what may now be termed as the ‘woman's question.' The book makes an assesssment of the contribution made by Virginia Woolf to the realm of English fiction, from the feminist viewpoint.

ISBN: 81-7551-052-8                      Rs. 200 | USD 10

Essays on the New Literatures

R.K. Dhawan, ed.

The volume offers new insights into the fiction of Commonwealth writers, especially Amitav Ghosh, Arundhati Roy, Manju Kapur, Shashi Tharoor and Chinua Achebe.

ISBN: 81-7551-139-7                      Rs. 400 | USD 20


New Commonwealth Writing: A Critical Response

M.L. Pandit

A collection of essays in the areas of Indian, West Indian, Nigerian and Canadian writing, the book includes a special section on Salman Rushdie. An exclusive interview with Salman Rushdie is published for the first time.

ISBN: 81-7551-007-2                      Rs. 400 | USD 20


Critical Studies in Commonwealth Literature

K. Venkata Reddy

Chapters are devoted to specific writers like Katherine Mansfield of New Zealand; Margaret Atwood and Margaret Laurence of Canada; David Williamson of Australia; Wole Soyinka and Nadine Gordimer of Africa; Derek Walcott of West Indies; Tagore, A.K. Ramanujan, Harindranath Chattopadhyaya, T.P. Kailasam, Manoranjan Das, Badal Sircar, Salman Rushdie, Chaman Nahal and S. Radhakrishnan of India.

ISBN: 81-85218-7-0                        Rs. 400 | USD 20


Recent Commonwealth Literature

Dhawan, Dhamija, Shrivastava, ed.

The book studies elaborately the genesis and bearing of Commonwealth literature. It contains critical studies on Rushdie, Anand, Arun Joshi, M. Malgonkar, R.K. Narayan, Nina Sibal, Anita Desai, Nayantara Sahgal, Ruth Jhabvala, Nergis Dalal, Rama Mehta, Keki Daruwalla, Earle Birney, Judith Wright, Katherine Mansfield, Hugh MacLennan, Lamming, Naipaul, John Masters, Soyinka, Achebe, Ngugi, Plomer and Flora Nwapa.

ISBN: 81-85218-09-9                      Rs. 800 (2 vols.) | USD 40


Commonwealth Writing: A Study in Expatriate Experience

R.K Dhawan and L.S.R.K. Sastry, ed.

The first section defines and discusses the theme of expatriation and immigration as dealt in Commonwealth writing. This is followed by critical studies on specific writers: Vikram Seth, Ruth Jhabvala, Bharati Mukherjee, Anita Desai, Attia Hosain (India), Udaya Meddegama (Sri Lanka), Farhana Sheikh (Pakistan), George Lamming, Naipaul (West Indies) & Margaret Laurence (Canada)

ISBN: 81-85218-82-X                      Rs. 300 | USD 15


Centering the Margins: Perspectives on Literatures in English from India, Africa, Australia

Cynthia vanden Driesen

The book, comprising 11 perceptive essays, reveals the new directions postcolonial criticism is taking. The author confronts the most complex writers: R.K. Narayan in India, Achebe in Africa, Patrick White in Australia. She focuses on women's studies in the postcolonial context through her study of Emecheta and on immigration and multiculturalism through her essay on Asian writing in Australia.

ISBN: 81-85218-99-4                      Rs. 300 | USD 15


Commentaries on Commonwealth

Poetry and Drama

S. Ramaswamy

This volume of essays covers a wide range of subjects. It has articles on Obi Egbuna (Africa), Douglas Stewart, Patrick White, Ray Lawler (Australia), George Woodcock, Sharon Pollock, Michel Tremblay (Canada), Claude McKay (West Indies), Arthur Jawodimbari (New Zealand).

ISBN: 81-85218-79-X                      Rs. 300 | USD 15


Commentaries on Commonwealth Fiction

S. Ramaswamy

This volume of essays on Commonwealth fiction covers a wide range of subjects. It has articles on Wole Soyinka (Africa), Henry Handel Richardson, Patrick White (Australia), Hugh MacLennan, Morley Callaghan, Anne Hebert (Canada), Wilson Harris (West Indies), Katherine Mansfield (New Zealand), James Goonewardane (Sri Lanka).

ISBN: 81-85218-80-3                      Rs. 300 | USD 15

Caribbean Literature

The West Indian Fiction

R.K. Dhawan, ed.

West Indian literature is best known for the fiction it has produced. George Lamming, Wilson Harris, Samuel Selvon and V.S. Naipaul are amongst the most significant novelists of the twentieth century. The volume highlights the contribution made by these writers and also discusses the work of other writers including Jean Rhys, Roger Mais, Cyril Dabydeen and Jamaica Kincaid.

ISBN: 81-7551-044-7                      Rs. 400 | USD 20


V.S. Naipaul: A Literary Response to the Nobel Laureate

Suman Bala, ed.

Naipaul is one of the best-known Englih novelists of the modern times; his popularity reached its zenith when he received the Nobel Prize for literature. The volume, a collection of recent essays on his writings, aims at paying the fittest tribute to the great novelist.

ISBN: 81-7551-136-2                      Rs. 500 | USD 25


The Novels of V.S. Naipaul

Shashi Kamra

The study makes an inquiry into Naipaul's fiction as an experimental recreation of the third-world consciousness. It is one of the pioneering studies on the mind and art of Naipaul. It has detailed chapters on The Mystic Masseur, The Suffrage of Elvira, The Mimic Men, A House for Mr. Biswas, Mr. Stone, The Knight's Companion, Guerrillas, A Bend in the Ganges and In a Free State.

ISBN: 81-85218-12-9                      Rs. 300 | USD 15


The Novels of V.S. Naipaul: Quest for Order and Identity

N. Rama Devi

The book analyzes Naipaul's quest for order and identity in his novels with the third world setting, namely The Mystic Masseur, The Suffrage of Elvira, A House for Mr. Biswas, The Mimic Men, In a Free State, Guerrillas, A Bend in the River and A Way in the World .

ISBN: 81-85218-006-4                      Rs. 300 | USD 15

Canadian Literature

The Fiction of Margaret Laurence and Anita Desai: Discourse in Alienation

D.K. Pabby

The volume on the fiction of Canadian writer Margaret Laurence and Indian English writer Anita Desai is conceived as a project in comparative framework. It interrogates and critiques significant questions relating to identity, ethnicity, multiculturalism, immigration, globalization, alienation and affirmation that confront the Canadian and Indian society and the literary world..

ISBN: 81-7551-158-3                       Rs. 500 | USD 25


Trishanku and Other Writings

Uma Parameswaran

Trishanku is a cycle of poems consisting of about fifteen voices that cumulatively reflect the first quarter century of Indo-Canadian experience in Manitoba.

ISBN: 81-7551-019-6                      Rs. 300 | USD 15


Land Where the Trees Talk and Other Plays

Rahul Varma

The four plays included in this volume show the evolution of Rahul Varma's art and his commitment to challenging the inequities imposed on new immigrants in Canada. In the title play, he enters new but related territory the encroachment of commercial technology on the rights of the First Nations.

ISBN: 81-7551-022-6                      Rs. 400 | USD 20


Five or Six Characters in Search of Toronto and Other Plays

Rana Bose

Rana Bose is an intellectual dissenter. All his plays highlight the theme of protest, not specific injustices or individual incidents of suffering so much as the systemic shortcomings that give rise to and perpetuate an unjust society. His plays have a Canadian setting but their implications have global relevance.

ISBN: 81-7551-021-8                      Rs. 300 | USD 15


Sons Must Die and Other Plays

Uma Parameswaran

Sons Must Die and Other Plays reflects both the evolution of the Indo-Canadian community and the evolution of the writer. At one level, these plays deal with the demands and experiences of such universals as motherhood, bhakti, transplantation etc. while at the level of specifics, they delineate the growth of theatre in the Indo-Canadian community.

ISBN: 81-7551-020-4                      Rs. 300 | USD 15


Multiculturalism: Canada and India

R.K. Dhawan and D.K. Pabby, ed.

Immigrant literature, native writing and cross-cultural studies are the upcoming areas of contemporary Canadian writing and these truly represent the face of multicultural Canada. The rich diversity has similarity with literary and cultural scenario in India. The book makes a comparative study of the rich inter-racial, ethnic literatures of the two countries .

ISBN: 81-7551-166-4                      Rs. 400 | USD 20


Commentaries on Canadian Literature

S. Ramaswamy

Contemporary Canadian literature has received a worldwide response. The book offers detailed commentaries on the major Canadian texts and authors—a book that really helps to understand and appreciate Canadian literature.

ISBN: 81-7551-173-7                      Rs. 500 | USD 25


India in Canadian Imagination

R.K. Dhawan, D.K. Pabby and S.S. Sharma

The book explores the heritage of Indian thought and the image of India depicted in Canadian literature. Writers like Uma Parameswaran, Rohiton Mistry, Anita Rau Badami and Shauna Singh Baldwin have constructed an image of India in their works as they imagine it to be. The book adds to the literature of Indian diaspora.

ISBN: 81-7551-138-9                       Rs. 400 | USD 20


Canadian Literature Today

R.K. Dhawan, ed.

The volume contains essays on Nature in Canadian poetry, the poems of Irving Layton, the plays of Robertson Davies, the autobiographies of Claire Martin and Sharan-Jeet Shan, the literary criticism of George Whalley and the novels of Michael Ondaatje, Mordecai Richler, Vassanji, Alice Munro, Marie Clair Blais, Joan Barfoot, Beatrice Culleton, Margaret Atwood and Rudy Wiebe.

ISBN: 81-85218-95-1                      Rs. 400 | USD 20


Perspectives on Indo-Canadian Studies

Jacob George, ed.

The twenty-three articles in this volume present the varied encounters of the colonial, migratory, cross-cultural, constitutional and multilingual kind which forge the identity of India and Canada. Such an attempt highlights the multicultural mosaic of present-day Canada and India.

ISBN: 81-7551-105-2                      Rs. 400 | USD 20


Perspectives on Canadian Fiction

Sudhakar Pandey, ed.

The volume contains exploratory critical studies on various aspects of Canadian fiction. Feminism and women's writing constitute the bulk of the volume. Writers like Margaret Atwood, Sinclair Ross, Sally Morgan and Rudy Wiebe are discussed with reference to specific texts.

ISBN: 81-85218-77-3                      Rs. 400 | USD 20

Diaspora: The Australasian Experience

Cynthia vanden Driesen & Ralph Crane, ed.

The perennially engaging theme of diaspora has acquired an increasing, even an alarming resonance in the contemporary world. This collection of writings from Australia, New Zealand, India and Singapore straddles disciplines ranging from Literature, Media, and the Social Sciences to Computing and Library Studies. The medley of voices combine to illuminate a topic which must surely be one of the most challenging in current intellectual debates the world over. It is aerated also with insightful contributions from creative artists. The varied issues are probed with unusual depth and perspicacity, partly because while some of the contributors are recognized experts in the field, others are exciting new talents testing their strengths in the field of international scholarship.

ISBN: 81-7551-176-1                      Rs. 900 | USD 45


Multiculturalism in Australian Literature

R.K. Dhawan, ed.

Australian society, like American and Canadian, is characterized by multiculturalism. Contemporary Australian literature is quite representative of this quality. The volume contains indepth studies of various literary works written by Asian-Australian writers and other works written by white Australians who are truly multicultural.

ISBN: 81-7551-159-1                      Rs. 400 | USD 20


Austral-Asian Encounters: From Literature and Women's Studies to Politics and Tourism

Cynthia Driesen & Satendra Nandan, ed.

This collection of papers signals the emergence of innovative developments in Australian Studies. In the area of cultural theory some of the brightest talents from Australia, New Zealand and India theorize the fresh insights emerging through exploration of the commonalties of the shared colonial and postcolonial experience of these regions. The addition of perspectives from New Zealand to this Second-World/Third-World dialogue is another of the highlights of this volume. While on the literary scene new figures move into focus, fresh developments in other disciplines are highlighted: politics, diplomacy, tourism and even science show interactions across a whole range of areas.

ISBN: 81-7551-131-1                      Rs. 700 | USD 35


Australian Literature Today

R.K Dhawan and David Kerr, ed.

The book includes essays that deal with some significant texts and themes in Australian writing. Writers like Patrick White, David Malouf, Peter Carey, C.J. Koch, Christopher Brennan and Vincent Buckley are discussed with reference to specific texts.

ISBN: 81-85218-70-6                      Rs. 400 | USD 20


States of Imagination: Nationalism and Multiculturalism in Australian and Southern Asian Literature

John McLaren

The nation states of Asia and the South Pacific that were formerly ruled by Britain or the United States have in common their colonial past and the civil institutions inherited from it, the widespread use of the English language and the problem of building new nations amid cultural, ethnic, religious and linguistic diversity. This study examines the ways writers in English have dealt with these problems in India, Pakistan, Malayasia, Singapore, Philippines and Australia.

ISBN: 81-7551-120-6                      Rs. 500 | USD 25


New Directions in Australian Studies

Cynthia Driesen and Adrian Mitchell

This collection of papers refracts new trends in Australian studies over a range of disciplines—literature, cultural theory, education, women's studies, children's studies. Focussing on the innovative and the creative, these papers articulate perceptive insights from several eminent Australian academics and also record the burgeoning interest of Asian scholars in Australian culture.

ISBN: 81-7551-084-6                       Rs. 700 | USD 35


Australian Poetry and Fiction

R.K. Dhawan, ed.

In the recent years, a number of Australian writers have received international recognition: Patrick White, Peter Carey, A.D. Hope, Les Murray, Judith Wright, David Malouf and Elizabeth Jolley. Also, Australian women writers have produced sufficient work to merit worldwide attention. The volume, comprising critical responses, amply testifies to the view that present-day Australian writing has acquired a breadth and diversity that it did not possess before.

ISBN: 81-7551-032-3                      Rs. 300 | USD 15


Australian Literature and Indian Literature: Studies in Mutual Response

David Kerr and R.K. Dhawan, ed.

While the first section has scholarly papers by eminent Indian academics on contemporary Australian literature, the second section has scholarly papers by Australian academics on Indian English literature. The book contains illuminating studies on Patrick White, A.D. Hope, Judith Wright, Les Murray, Salman Rushdie, Anita Desai, R.K. Narayan, Nayantara Sahgal, Shashi Deshpande, Upamanyu Chatterjee and Nissim Ezekiel.

ISBN: 81-85218-24-2                      Rs. 400 | USD 20


A.D. Hope: Questions of Poetic Strength

Walter Tonetto

The book makes a detailed discussion of the poetic quality of major works of A.D. Hope, a leading Australian poet. The study places Hope as a precursor of a genius that has imbibed its possibilities from the spirit of land and people.

ISBN: 81-85218-74-9                      Rs. 400 | USD 20

New Zealand Literature

R.K Dhawan and Walter Tonetto, ed.

The book is a pioneering attempt to foster reader's interest in New Zealand literature and to highlight its significance as a major component of World literature. It has exhaustive critical studies on Katherine Mansfield, Frank Sargeson, Maurice Gee, Janet Frame and Keri Hulme.

ISBN: 81-85218-69-2                      Rs. 400 | USD 20

African Literature

African Literature Today

R.K. Dhawan, ed.

The book gives a panoramic look at the contemporary African literature. It includes general discussions on African writing and critical studies on prominent writers like Achebe, Wole Soyinka, Ngugi, Alex La Guma, J.P. Clark, Alan Paton, Cyprian Ekwensi, Gabriel Okara, Camara Laye, Flora Nwapa, Nadine Gordimer, Doris Lessing and Bessie Head.

ISBN: 81-85218-83-8                       Rs. 400 | USD 20


Indian Response to African Writing

A. Ramakrishna Rao, C.R.V. Rao, ed.

The articles included in this volume cover various aspects of African writing—cultural, generic and theoretical. Evaluations of Achebe, Soyinka, Ngugi and other major African writers bring to central focus the Indian reader's interaction with the African texts.

ISBN: 81-85218-71-4                       Rs. 300 | USD 15


Ngugi's The Trial of Dedan Kimathy : A Reader's Companion

Nandita Sinha, ed.

The Trial of Dedan Kimathy is an important African protest play. It is based on historical facts and depicts how Kenya won its independence through the sacrifices of heroes like Dedan Kimathy. The present book offers a comprehensive study of the play, covering thematic and technical aspects.

ISBN: 81-7851-013-8                      Rs. 400 | USD 20


African Poetry and Drama

Shyam S. Agarwalla, ed.

The volume represents first the poets, secondly the playwrights, and thirdly all regions of Africa and the diaspora. Particular emphasis is placed on Nigerian gender poetry, Yoruba Theatre, Eastern African Traditionalism, African-American movement and African-Canadian writing.

ISBN: 81-7551-070-6                       Rs. 400 | USD 20


African Fiction

Shyam S. Agarwalla, ed.

All African writing is at once a literary piece, a social protest and medium of political re-assertion. All the contributors to the volume share the same objective while examining the works of writers like Achebe, Ngugi, Ayi Kwei Armah, Ben Okri and Gabriel Okara. The book also highlights the fast-growing women's writing and discusses work of women writers like Nadine Gordimer, Buchi Emecheta, Mariama Ba and Ama Ata Aidoo.

ISBN: 81-7551-071-4                      Rs. 400 | USD 20


Nadine Gordimer's My Son's Story : A Critical Study

Nandita Sinha

Gordimer, the Nobel Laureate, has written the famous novel My Son's Story which offers a graphic picture of anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa. The book offers a detailed analysis of the novel and opens up rich insights into Gordimer's mind and art.

ISBN: 81-7851-018-9                      Rs. 400 | USD 20


The Novels of Wole Soyinka

M. Rajeshwar

Wole Soyinka is the only African writer to have won the Nobel Prize for Literature. His fictional, dramatic and poetical works are representative of African reality and sensibility today. The book is a perceptive study of Soyinka's fictional heroes in their role as leaders of the struggle against colonial and neo-colonial forces.

ISBN: 81-85218-21-8                      Rs. 200 | USD 10


The Plays of Wole Soyinka: A Socio-Psychological Study

M. Pushpa

Wole Soyinka, the black African writer, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986. The book makes a socio-psychological study of his protagonists who are caught in the web of conflict between will and tradition. This is evident in his plays like The Road, Death and the King's Horseman, Kongi's Harvest, The Swamp Dwellers and The Lion and the Jewel.

ISBN: 81-7551-051-X                      Rs. 400 | USD 20


Chinua Achebe: A Study of His Novels

S.A. Khayyoom

Chinua Achebe, the doyen of African writing, is the major exponent of modern African novel. Beginning with the advent of the European power, his novels span a series of political crises that beset Nigeria, the collapse of the native power structures in Things Fall Apart , total subjugation of the natives and the establishment of colonial power in Arrow of God , transfer of power to the native elite in No Longer at Ease , fall of the first Republic in A Man of the People and the failure of the military regime in Anthills of the Savannah .

ISBN: 81-7551-050-1                      Rs. 400 | USD 20


South Asian Responses to Chinua Achebe

B. Lindfors & B. Kothandaraman, ed.

The book is an anthology of critical studies on the novels of Chinua Achebe. It provides a critical survey of Achebe's fiction, especially his social obligations as a writer.

ISBN: 81-85218-66-8                      Rs. 400 | USD 20


The Novels of Ayi Kwei Armah

K. Damodar Rao

Armah is an articulate spokesman of African history and identity. In his fiction, there is a true fusion of individual and communal welfare, national realities and pan-African ideal, contemporary situation and historical vision. All his major works, including The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born, Fragments, Why Are We So Blest, and The Healers , are comprehensively discussed.

ISBN: 81-85218-75-7                      Rs. 300 | USD 15

English Literature

Shifting Paradigms: Essays on Literature and Theory

A. Raghu

The volume stands out for its astonishing thematic range—from Advaita to postmodernism, from Philip Sidney to Nissim Ezekiel, from pornography to nation theory, from Manonmaniya Sundaram Pillai to George Bernard Shaw, from Indian Writing in English to Australian literature, from the life of C.P. Ramaswami Aiyar to the love of W.B. Yeats for Maud Gonne.

ISBN: 81-7551-175-3                      Rs. 400 | USD 20


Post-War English Novel: A Study in Humanism

Rudra Prasad Mahto

The novel today stands around a humanistic concept of the world. The present book deals with the fiction of William Golding, John Wain, Iris Murdoch, Doris Lessing and Angus Wilson who share an anxiety about man and his position in the world.

ISBN: 81-7551-112-5                      Rs. 400 | USD 20


The Jew in Literature

Sanjeev Kumar

The book makes a comparative study of the treatment of the Jew in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice and Arnold Wesker's The Merchant . It enhances our awareness of racial literature that defends marginalized sections of society.

ISBN: 81-7551-164-8                       Rs. 400 | USD 20


English Language and Literature Teaching

Wadgaonkar, Sawant, Gandhi, ed.

The book focuses attention on some significant aspects of language & literature teaching such as grammar, phonology, teaching techniques, stylistics and approaches to literature. It critically examines the role of language in evaluating and appreciating literature. The book covers a wide range of subjects from the grammatical items to classroom-tested principles and methods of teaching.

ISBN: 81-7551-069-2                      Rs. 400 | USD 20


Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook: A Critical Study

Tapan K. Ghosh

Feminism is the most significant cultural and literary movement today. Lessing's The Golden Notebook is a major literary work that has contributed immensely to the area of feminism, highlighting women's identity. The book offers a detailed commentary on the text.

ISBN: 81-7551-174-5                       Rs. 500 | USD 25


Mary Shelley's Frankenstein : A Reader's Companion

Santwana Haldar

Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein , now considered a novel of ideas, has made a great contribution to the women's writings. The present book offers a serious study on the theme, technique and narrative of the novel, highlighting its significance as a classic.

ISBN: 81-7851-012-X                      Rs. 400 | USD 20


The Novels of Huxley and Hemingway

Sanjukta Dasgupta

The book makes a comparative study of the works of the British novelist Huxley and the American novelist Hemingway. The novels examined are Huxley's Those Barren Leaves, Eyeless in Gaza and Island, and Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Old Man and the Sea.

ISBN: 81-7551-002-1                      Rs. 300 | USD 15


The Novels of Evelyn Waugh

A. Clement

Waugh is one of the prominent men of letters of the twentieth century. The book is a warm and perceptive analysis of his major novels in terms of the quest motif. It devotes a chapter each to Decline and Fall, Vile Bodies, Black Mischief, A Handful of Dust, Brideshead Revisited, Helena, Men at Arms, Officers & Gentlemen, Unconditional Surrender .

ISBN: 81-85218-89-7                      Rs. 400 | USD 20


Ivy Compton-Burnett and English Domestic Novel

T. Asoka Rani

Ivy Compton-Burnett, a significant twentieth century novelist, follows the tradition of Domestic Novel in England. The book traces the development of this form of fiction from the eighteenth century in a chronological order, evaluating the contributions of the major figures in the field. It gives in-depth analyses of all the twenty novels of Ivy Compton-Burnett, focussing attention on their features in common with the standard masterpieces as well as on the points of deviation.

ISBN: 81-85218-60-9                       Rs. 400 | USD 20


The Novels of Joseph Conrad

V.T. Girdhari

Joseph Conrad is considered, by common consent, one of the most significant novelists of the world. Various interpretations of his work have been offered by scholars, leading to stimulating discussions. The book presents Conrad, not as a pessimist or a nihilist, but as a positive philosopher having infinite faith in human existence.

ISBN: 81-7551-043-9                       Rs. 400 | USD 20


Joseph Conrad's Fiction

Suman Bala

The book makes an exhaustive study of existential humanism in the novels of Joseph Conrad in the light of modern existential theories propounded by Camus and Sartre. Such an approach makes the reading of Conrad's novels more rewarding and brings out the full scope of Conrad's art and meaning, not sufficiently apprehended hitherto.

ISBN: 81-7076-029-1                       Rs. 400 | USD 20


Kipling's Vision

Sukeshi Kamra

Rudyard Kipling, the Nobel Laureate, is a significant figure in the history of the English novel. The book shows that in analysing and presenting the moral and spiritual abyss within man, Kipling was attempting to do something rather new with fiction, hundred years ago. The book presents Kipling, popularly regarded as a prophet and a seer, as an existential humanist.

ISBN: 81-85218-04-8                      Rs. 200 | USD 10


Fictional Theories and Three English Novels

Asha Kanwar

The book deals with the fictional theories of two English critics, Arnold Kettle and Raymond Williams and the application of these theories to the three great English novels, namely, Wuthering Heights, Middlemarch and Tess of the D'Urbervilles.

ISBN: 81-85218-23-4                      Rs. 400 | USD 20


The Novels of Virginia Woolf

B. Sudipta

This study makes an assessment of the novels of Virginia Woolf, including Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse . It investigates into a new area of ‘group-consciousness' through which the novelist offers a unique vision of the world.

ISBN: 81-85218-14-5                      Rs. 400 | USD 20


Graham Greene: Language and Style

K. Durga Bhavani

The book demonstrates and describes the ways in which linguistic techniques can be applied to a literary text. A practical analysis of Greene's style with reference to his three novels, namely The Power and the Glory, The Heart of the Matter and Doctor Fischer of Geneva , leads to a deeper perception of the novelist's modes of literary expression.

ISBN: 81-7551-066-8                      Rs. 300 | USD 15


The Novels of Graham Greene

P.N. Pandit

The book makes an extensive study of the impact of childhood on adult life, a recurrent theme in the fiction of Graham Greene. Indeed a host of characters emanate from Greene's childhood traumas and memories anti-heroes with dual personalities obsessed with a sense of failure and sexual guilt.

ISBN: 81-85218-17-X                      Rs. 400 | USD 20


Thomas Hardy's Novels: A Feminist Perspective

Isam M. Shihada

The book aims at studying the feminist aspects of Thomas Hardy's major novels. A close analysis of his novels like Far from the Madding Crowd , The Return of the Native, The Mayor of Casterbridge and Tess of the D'Urbervilles reveals that Hardy may be considered a liberal humanist and a true precursor of the modern feminist movement.

ISBN: 81-7551-095-1                      Rs. 300 | USD 15


Thomas Hardy: A Collection of Critical Essays

Subhash Chandra, ed.

This anthology offers a multipolar view of Hardy as a novelist, poet and dramatist. A salient feature of the book is the in-depth studies of Hardy's major novels— Far from the Madding Crowd, Jude the Obscure, The Return of the Native, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, The Mayor of Casterbridge .

ISBN: 81-7551-037-4                      Rs. 400 | USD 20


The English Drama

K.S. Iyer, ed.

The English drama has a rich and long tradition spanning the period from the Elizabethan to the most modern. The volume includes articles on outstanding figures in theatre—Marlowe, Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Sheridan, Congreve, Shaw, Galsworthy, Beckett, Pinter, Osborne, Eliot, Robert Bolt.

ISBN: 81-7551-080-3                      Rs. 400 | USD 20


Shakespeare in the Twentieth Century

N.M. Aston, ed.

The volume brings together a series of scholarly papers on William Shakespeare who is regarded the greatest dramatist of the world. A special feature of the book is perceptive analyses of Indian responses to Shakespeare, assessing his position in the 21st century.

ISBN: 81-7551-034-X                      Rs. 300 | USD 15


Shakespeare: New Dimensions

K. Dwarakanath

The book explores the multiple possibilities for the study of Shakespeare. It approaches Shakespeare's plays from both literary and linguistic point of view. The study focuses on the four soul-stirring tragedies, namely Hamlet, King Lear, Othello and Macbeth .

ISBN: 81-7551-072-2                      Rs. 500 | USD 25


Harold Pinter

Pradip Lahiri

In the plays of Harold Pinter, the amazing potentiality of the verbal-visual projection has been very effectively demonstrated. The book examines how Pinterian absurdistic drama works on us through its dialogue design, showing the playwright's deeper insight into his characters.

ISBN: 81-7551-012-9                      Rs. 300 | USD 15


Dario Fo's Accidental Death of an Anarchist : A Reader's Companion

Santwana Haldar

Accidental Death of an Anarchist , by the Nobel Laureate writer Dario Fo, is a modern classic play. A satire on police in Italy, it makes a significant contribution to theatre and drama. The book offers a detailed commentary and critical evaluation of the play.

ISBN: 81-7851-014-6                      Rs. 400 | USD 20


Goldsmith and Sentimental Comedy

B.S. Pathania

The book makes a close and systematic examination of Goldsmith's comedies in the context of sentimental comedy which was a popular form of drama in the eighteenth century. This book is a study of the unsentimentalism of Goldsmith as a playwright.

ISBN: 81-85218-00-5                      Rs. 400 | USD 20


Ben Jonson: His Dramatic Art

K. Venkata Reddy

The book makes a close and objective study of Jonson's dramatic theory and practice related to his comedies with a view to showing that Jonson is essentially a dramatic artist.

ISBN: 81-85218-86-2                      Rs. 400 | USD 20


Romantic Drama and Charles Lamb

M.N. Chatterjee

The book seeks a re-appraisal of the English Romantic period in the context of drama. It focusses on Charles Lamb who etched his name as a critic of Shakespearean Tragedy and Restoration Comedy.

ISBN: 81-7551-049-8                      Rs. 300 | USD 15


G.B. Shaw: A Critical Response

Sudhakar Pandey & Freya Barua, ed.

The book comprises scholarly wide-ranging, critical papers on Shaw's plays, esp. Major Barbara, Man and Superman, Saint Joan and Arms and the Man.

ISBN: 81-85218-36-6                      Rs. 300 | USD 15


George Bernard Shaw

Vinod Bala Sharma

The book evaluates Shaw's prefaces and plays as works of literature. These reveal Shaw as an artist-philosopher and a prophet-biologist.

ISBN: 81-85218-20-X                      Rs. 300 | USD 15


Samuel Beckett

Nishi Chawla

Samuel Beckett, best known for his play Waiting for Godot , is one of the foremost writers of the twentieth century. Nishi Chawla explores in her study Beckett's inescapable involvement with the fundamental issues of existence and of identity.

ISBN: 81-7551-063-3                      Rs. 400 | USD 20


Romanticism: A Reconsideration

N.M. Aston, ed.

Romanticism heralded a new era of golden age for mankind. Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, Lamb and Hazlitt are the true representatives of the romantic movement. The volume makes a fresh evaluation of ‘romanticism' as a concept and its application to significant works of the romantic era.

ISBN: 81-7551-068-4                      Rs. 400 | USD 20


Robert Browning: Character and Motive in The Ring and the Book

P. Hannah Padma

Robert Browning is the most significant poet of the Victorian era. His magnum opus The Ring and the Book is based on a Roman murder case . Choosing monologue and blank verse as his medium, Browning takes care that each version of the talk has an authenticity in tune with the motives of the speaker.

ISBN: 81-7551-023-4                      Rs. 200 | USD 10


Robert Browning: The Later Poetry

Nandita Sinha

The period following The Ring and the Book has been ignored by critics on the assumption that Browning's best work had been completed by then. The astonishing range and versatility of the later poems are a refutation of this view and the book establishes the importance of the mature phase in assessment of Browning's artistic development.

ISBN: 81-85218-72-2                       Rs. 300 | USD 15


W.B. Yeats

Rajeshwari Patel

W.B. Yeats occupies a central place in modern literature—so central that one cannot understand the age without a proper appreciation of his work.

ISBN: 81-85218-13-7                       Rs. 400 | USD 20


W.H. Auden: The Commissar and the Yogi

M.K. Raju

Auden's poetic career spanning four significant decades was virtually synonymous with progress of poesy in English. Igniting the poetic revolution at Oxford, he fueled and sustained it by sheer force of his genius. If the English Auden drew upon psychological theories and Marxian dialectics for his poetic ideas, the American Auden structured his long poems on existential ethics. The book makes an in-depth study of this paradox in his art as in his personality.

ISBN: 81-85218-25-0                      Rs. 400 | USD 20


Milton Today

M.V. Rama Sarma

The study deals with Milton's justification of God's ways to men as expressed in his three major poems Paradise Lost, Samson Agonistes and Paradise Regained. The last chapter shows the relevance of Milton's political ideology and philosophical views to the present-day world, especially India.

ISBN: 81-7551-093-5                      Rs. 200 | USD 10


Milton and the Indian Epic Tradition

M.V. Rama Sarma

The book is an attempt to place Paradise Lost in the epic tradition of Ramayana and the Mahabharata .

ISBN: 81-85218-11-0                      Rs. 300 | USD 15


Travel, Autobiography and D.H. Lawrence

A.B. Apana

The book examines the nature of travel writing of the Twenties and Thirties and focuses on D.H. Lawrence. In the first four chapters, the book examines the nature of travel writing, the nature of the traveller, the uniquely idiosyncratic style of travel writing, and finally brings together these various elements in a chapter on autobiography. The book is a novel approach to the study of Lawrence.

ISBN: 81-7551-053-6                      Rs. 400 | USD 20

American Literature

Ethnic Literatures of America

Somdatta Mandal and Himadri Lahiri, ed.

The stupendous volume is devoted to diasporic writing in America and intercultural issues in contemporary ethnic literatures of the States. The essays deal with wide range of themes—Theoretical Paradigms, Indian American, Chinese American, African American Voices and Intercultural Studies.

ISBN: 81-7551-163-X                      Rs. 600 | USD 30


Afro-American Literature

R.K. Dhawan, ed.

Afro-American writing is essentially a human and social document which deals with the experience of Americans of African ancestry. A section of the book is devoted to Toni Morrison, the Nobel Prize winner, and has a chapter each on The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon, Tar Baby, Beloved and Jazz . Other writers discussed include the novelists Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, Gloria Naylor, Ralph Ellison, Alex Haley, and the dramatists Alice Childress, Marsha Norman, Ntozake Shange and Lorraine Hansberry.

ISBN: 81-7551-110-9                      Rs. 400 | USD 20


New Directions in American Literature

K.S. Iyer, ed.

This collection of articles is divided into four parts: general, poetry, novel and drama. While the introductory section provides a general introduction to American literature today, subsequent sections include exploratory papers on Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, Melville, Hemingway, Edgar Allan Poe, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor and Edward Albee.

ISBN: 81-7551-130-3                      Rs. 400 | USD 20


Indian Views on American Literature

A.A. Mutalik-Desai, ed.

The book presents critical response of Indian scholars to the contemporary American literature. With a diversity of themes and approaches, the essays in this anthology exhibit the scholars's awareness and perceptions of all the cross-currents in the Anglo-American world of academia, literary studies and the latest Theory Wars. The essays pay a discerning attention to American poetry, fiction and drama with special consideration of Afro-American writers.

ISBN: 81-7551-054-4                      Rs. 400 | USD 20


Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the U.S.

Anil Raina, Manju Jaidka, et al, ed.

The authors discussed include Toni Morrison, Richard Wright, Rudolfo Anaya, Bernard Malamud, Amy Tan, D'Arcy McNickle, Alexei Sherman, Maxine Hong Kingston, Claude Mckay. The anthology has essays on Afro-American, Native American, and Asian American literature.

ISBN: 81-7551-124-9                      Rs. 500 | USD 25


Asian American Writing (3 vols.)

Somdatta Mandal, ed.

Asian American literature reflects the Asian experience in the United States—right from the beginning of Chinese immigration in the mid-nineteenth century to the present. As both social document and mirror of memory, myth, dreams and desires, Asian American literature provides unique access to understanding the social history and sensibilities of this emerging minority group. This anthology in three volumes tries to break new ground by emphasizing upon the Asian American experience in all possible genres—interviews, creative writing, criticism, mass media. Writers of Indian diaspora—Bharati Mukherjee, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Meena Alexander and Jhumpa Lahiri are widely discussed.

ISBN: 81-7551-096-X                      Rs. 1200 | USD 60


American Literature Today

Suman Bala, ed.

The writings of Arthur Miller, Sam Shepard, Saul Bellow, J.D. Salinger, Ernest Hemingway, Norman Mailer, Sylvia Plath, Kate Chopin, Toni Morrison and some others are recognized throughout the world as masterpieces of world literature. The book, a collection of 26 essays, attempts to review and evaluate contemporary American literature.

ISBN: 81-7076-067-1                      Rs. 400 | USD 20


Indian Perspectives on the U.S.: Literature and Foreign Affairs

P.M. Kamath, A.A. Mutalik-Desai, ed.

The essays deal with American literary figures: Willa Cather, Ellen Glasgow, Flannery O'Connor, Toni Morrison, Ann Petry, Ayn Rand, Norman Mailer, J.D. Salinger, Jo-Anne Akalaitis and Rechel Rosenthal.

ISBN: 81-85218-76-5                      Rs. 400 | USD 20


American Literature and Indian English Literature: Studies in Cultural Contiguity

A.M Geevarghese, Varghese John, ed.

The volume brings together articles on two areas of literature generally perceived as separate identities. The essays cover perspectives on American Literature and Indian Literature, and often lead to scholarly discourses on poetry and poetics, fiction, women's studies, drama and dramaturgy.

ISBN: 81-7551-065-X                      Rs. 400 | USD 20


American Studies in India

P.M. Kamath, ed.

The importance of American Studies is increasingly being realized and it is growing into a major area of study and research. American Studies is essentially a multi-disciplinary program built on subjects drawn from Humanities and Social Sciences. The volume is a collection of fourteen essays by Americanists in the field of literature, history, politics and foreign affairs.

ISBN: 81-85218-84-6                      Rs. 400 | USD 20


American Literature and Culture

Laxmi Parasuram, ed.

The book represents a wide spectrum of critical responses by eminent scholars to American literature and culture. The first section is devoted to critical studies on major writers like Ernest Hemingway, Salinger, Norman Mailer, Pearl Buck, Sam Shepard and Arthur Miller. The second section covers subjects like multiculturalism, Americanism, films, crime fiction and the woman question as handled by Toni Morrison and Maria Forbes.

ISBN: 81-85218-94-3                      Rs. 400 | USD 20


Contemporary American Drama

Abha Singh

The twentieth century American drama has registered a phenomenal growth. The fundamental contention of the book is that Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller and Edward Albee map the contours of the contemporary American consciousness.

ISBN: 81-7551-045-5                      Rs. 400 | USD 20


American Drama

D. Venkateswarlu

The book establishes a perspective on some major themes in Jewish American drama and Jewish literature itself. It tries to systematize the audience's response to the dialectics of prejudice, the problem of Americanization, the Holocaust and the other related themes.

ISBN: 81-85218-19-6                      Rs. 400 | USD 20


Perspectives on Post-War American Drama

D. Venkateswarlu et al

The book focuses on some of the exciting moments of Post-War American Drama duly recognising the contribution of playwrights such as O'Neill, Neil Simon, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, among many others. Inevitably, ethnic theatre, feminist drama, avant-garde theatre ambience of the sixties and the culture of theatre criticism also occupy the attention of the book.

ISBN: 81-7551-014-5                      Rs. 400 | USD 20


Edward Albee: Towards a Typology of Relations

Rana Nayar

The book offers new insights into conceptual understanding of a subject as complex as relationships in human life. The author explores the psycho-dynamics of human relations as evidenced in the plays of Edward Albee, one of the greatest American dramatists.

ISBN: 81-7551-140-0                      Rs. 500 | USD 25


The Plays of Lillian Hellman

Tenneti Nagamani

The plays of Lillian Hellman have been approached mostly from the social, political and psychological angles. The book, divided into ten chapters, seeks to examine her plays from a moral point of view since Hellman writes with a sense of righteous indignation and what is more, interprets both action and failure in terms of good and evil.

ISBN: 81-7551-102-8                      Rs. 400 | USD 20


Jewish American Writers & Intellectual Life in America

D. Venkateswarlu

The first part contains a series of interviews with prominent Jewish writers; the second part is devoted to a detailed discussion of the twentieth century literary criticism and some specific texts. There are the author's lively interviews with Saul Bellow, Noam Chomsky, Norman Podhoretz, Wayne C. Booth, David Perkins, Richard Stern, Elie Wiesel, Marshal Sklare and others.

ISBN: 81-85218-67-6                      Rs. 400 | USD 20


The Plays and Novels of Thronton Wilder

Vrinda Mathur

The book critically examines the various themes and techniques employed by Thornton Wilder in his plays and novels, and interprets them in relation to their thought, style and structure.

ISBN: 81-85218-59-5                      Rs. 250 | USD 12.50


Nathaniel Hawthorne

A Study in the Theme of Morality

Rosy Misra

The book offers a comprehensive analysis of moral concerns of Hawthorne, one of the greatest novelists of America. Also, it makes a thorough examination of Hawthorne's allegorical and symbolic techniques offering new insights and interpretations.

ISBN: 81-7551-141-9                      Rs. 300 | USD 15


The Fiction of Carson McCullers: Quest for Love

Pratibha Nagpal

Carson McCullers is a major American novelist who in her fiction probes the issues of loneliness and quest for love. She emphasized on the importance of human values and humanistic philosophy.

ISBN: 81-7551-142-7                      Rs. 400 | USD 20

Feminist Consciousness in Toni Morrison's Fiction

Sandip Pathak

K. Sumana

The book, the first of its kind by an Asian scholar, makes an in-depth study of the interrelationship of race, gender and class in her novels The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon, Tar Baby, Beloved and Jazz. It reveals that Morrison is essentially a fictional artist combining political consciousness with aesthetic sensibility.

ISBN: 81-7551-048-X                      Rs. 400 | USD 20


Toni Morrison's Beloved : A Reader's Companion

Ayesha Irfan, ed.

Toni Morrison is one of the foremost contemporary African-American women novelists. In 1988, she won Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel Beloved . The present book makes a detailed study of Toni Morrison as a novelist with a focus on her novel Beloved .

ISBN: 81-7851-006-5                      Rs. 500 | USD 25


Alice Walker's The Color Purple

A Reader's Companion

Nandita Sinha, ed.

The book offers a detailed study of Alice walker as a novelist, focusing on her novel The Color Purple . The first section introduces Alice Walker, with an exhaustive commentary on the novel The Color Purple .

ISBN: 81-7551-007-3                      Rs. 500 | USD 25


Gabriel Garcia Marquez's

Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Santwana Haldar

It discusses Marquez's contribution to Latin American literature & offers a detailed analysis of his unique mystery novel Chronicle of a Death Foretold . The work is a social satire on contemporary Latin American society.

ISBN: 81-7851-009-X                      Rs. 400 | USD 20


William Faulkner: A Centennial Tribute

Somdatta Mandal, ed.

William Faulkner's novels The Sound and the Fury, Absalom, Absalom! and As I Lay Dying are regarded the modern classics. The wide-ranging anthology offers a critical appraisal of Faulkner as a novelist on the 100th anniversary of his birth by international scholars.

ISBN: 81-7551-056-0                      Rs. 500 | USD 25


F. Scott Fitzgerald: Centenary Essays from India

Mohan Ramanan

The volume comprises papers presented at an All-India seminar on Scott Fitzgerald, held in Hyderabad. Several of Fitzgerald's novels are discussed and the insights gained from the growing critical theories have been put to good use in the analyses of Fitzgerald's works in these articles.

ISBN: 81-7551-041-2                      Rs. 400 | USD 20


F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Centennial Tribute (in 2 vols.)

Somdatta Mandal, ed.

Fitzgerald is one of the most colourful, significant and cherished talents that brought American literature to world prominence. This wide-ranging anthology presents Fitzgerald as the literary giant of the Roaring Twenties whose works ushered in and christened the Jazz Age. The contributors to the volume comprise an august group of Fitzgerald scholars of international repute.

ISBN: 81-7551-039-0                      Rs. 600 per set | USD 30


The Novels of John Gardner

T. Bharathi

John Gardner is America's most important spokesperson of moral and cultural values in literature. He takes up the cause of traditional values and wages a battle against man's tendency to shirk personal and moral responsibility. The book studies the prominent theme of affirmation which recurs in his novels.

ISBN: 81-7551-118-4                   Rs. 400 | USD 20


The Novels of William S. Burroughs

Ranjeet Singh Gill

The works of Burroughs span both the modernist as well as the postmodernist phase of the American novel. In his treatment of form and technique, especially the depiction of character, plot, theme and imagery, Burroughs defines himself as a hardcore practitioner of unorthodox techniques. The book takes up for discussion all his major novels.

ISBN: 81-7551-149-4                      Rs. 400 | USD 20


American Women Novelists

Rajyashree Khushu-Lahiri

The book is a study of the male protagonist and the man-woman relationship in the selected novels of Edith Wharton, Ellen Glasgow and Willa Cather from the feminist perspective.

ISBN: 81-7551-092-7                     Rs. 400 | USD 20


The Novels of Bernard Malamud

M. Rajagopalachari

The book presents a perceptive study of Malamud's novels considered in terms of the theme of compassion which is of central concern in Jewish literature. With a chapter exclusively on his short stories, it provides an integrated view of the novelist's entire work.

ISBN: 81-85218-02-1                      Rs. 400 | USD 20

The Fiction of J.D. Salinger

Subhash Chandra

Salinger, a major post-Second World War American novelist, exercised deep and wide-ranging influence on the American society. The book examines his fiction with a view to ascertaining the concept of man in its totality as it emerges from the corpus of his writings.

ISBN: 81-7551-082-X                      Rs. 400 | USD 20


The Novels of William Styron

S. Laxmana Murthy

The book presents a perceptive study of Styron's concern with the tragic fact of human existence as a constant endeavour to affirm love and compassion despite the nihilistic terror caused by ubiquitous violence in modern world. It has chapters on Lie Down in Darkness, The Long March, Set This House on Fire and The Confessions of Nat Turner.

ISBN: 81-85218-03-X                       Rs. 400 | USD 20


Sylvia Plath: The Complete Poet

Keya Majumdar

The book presents an honest appraisal of the whirlpool of Plath's powerful poetry from the biographic, thematic, stylistic & spiritual perspectives. The book will be of immense use to feminists & lovers of American literature.

ISBN: 81-7551-122-2                       Rs. 500 | USD 25

The Poetry of Theodore Roethke

P. Hannah Padma

Theodore Roethke is one of the most significant American poets. The book reveals that in Roethke's poetry, there is a fusion of psychological strength, intellectual depth, complexity and stylistic originality.

ISBN: 81-7551- 016-1                       Rs. 250 | USD 12.50

Literary Theory Today

Pramod Nayar

Theory is perhaps the most important area of study in the academic curriculum today. Both students and teachers are bewildered by the plethora of theories and baffling criticism constantly pouring in. The book gives a comprehensive introduction to this fast-growing discipline of Literary and Cultural Theory. It elaborates concepts & explains the arguments of principal thinkers and specific schools.

ISBN: 81-7851-005-7                     Rs. 500 | USD 25


Marxism and Literary Value

Anil Raina

Literary Theory is perhaps the most debated subject in academic circles today. The theorists discussed include Karl Marx, Georg Lukács, Lucien Goldmann, T.W. Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, Louis Althusser, Pierre Macherey, Terry Eagleton and Mikhail Bakhtin.

ISBN: 81-7551-121-4                      Rs. 400 | USD 20


Literature and Culture

Sachidanand Mohanty

The book brings together a set of essays on literature, culture and literary conversations that have appeared in some of the leading forums in the country. Straddling many worlds —from Cairo to Cambridge, from Sandra Gilbert to Sri Aurobindo—the perspectives aim at the creation of a cultured community.

ISBN: 81-7551-113-3                       Rs. 500 | USD 25


Postcolonial Discourse: A Study of Contemporary Literature

R.K. Dhawan, ed.

As a critical ideology, postcolonialism has acquired various interpretations. Postcolonial literature generally deals with the literature of those countries once ruled or colonized by the British. The book offers a hot and stimulating debate on the term postcolonial and discusses how passionately Indian English, African and Caribbean literatures have responded to colonialism & post-Independence.

ISBN: 81-7551-033-1                       Rs. 300 | USD 15


Literary Theory and the New Critics

N.D.R. Chandra

The book examines the nature of the traditional criticism vis-a-vis modern criticism. The new in America is represented by J.C. Ransom, Cleanth Brooks, W.K. Wimsatt, Allen Tate and R.P. Blackmur who were highly influenced by critics like T.E. Hulme, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot and I.A. Richards. The book enumerates the different faces of the new criticism of the new critics in general and Cleanth Brooks in particular.

ISBN: 81-7551-076-5                       Rs. 400 | USD 20


Western and Eastern Poetics

K.M. Tharakan

The East and the West meet at many points, especially in the field of literary criticism. The book is a psychological as well as philosophic study of the similarity between the aesthetic principles of I.A. Richards and Abhinavagupta. By establishing a close relationship between Western and Eastern poetics, the book makes a rich contribution to the disciplines of Comparative literature, Indological studies and literary criticism.

ISBN: 81-7551-36-6                       Rs. 300 | USD 15


Literary Theory and F.R. Leavis

M. Sridhar

This book places the contribution of F.R. Leavis, one of the most controversial and influential critics of this century, in the context of the rise of English studies as a University discipline in England and subsequent developments in criticism and theory.

ISBN: 81-7551-058-7                       Rs. 300 | USD 15


Trends in the Twentieth Century

Literary Criticism

N.M. Aston, ed.

The volume brings together a series of scholarly papers on trends in the twentieth century literary criticism. Various issues have been considered in depth by these theories viz. the functions of criticism, deconstruction, structuralism, the female identity, feminist criticism and multiculturalism.

ISBN: 81-7551-056-0                       Rs. 300 | USD 15


Surviving Postmodernism

Ron Shapiro

This book is concerned with some of the difficulties posed by postmodernism. It argues that there have been both gains and losses in the widespread acceptance of postmodernist ideas within universities and Western society.

ISBN: 81-7551-042-0                       Rs. 400 | USD 20


Studies in Translation: Theory & Practice

T.Vinoda & V. Gopal Reddy, ed.

Translation has a significant role to play in a multilingual and multicultural country like India. It can help build strong bridges between regions, languages and cultures. The book stresses on the need to develop a theory of translation that would go a long way in ensuring standards of excellence and professionalism in this field.

ISBN: 81-7551-083-8                       Rs. 300 | USD 15


Translation: From Periphery to Centrestage

Tutun Mukherjee, ed.

Translation of literary texts has led to both the globalization of culture and the promotion of inter and intra culture bonding. The book is divided into three sections: 1. The setting forth of the theoretical parameters of translation studies; 2. The problematic space of praxis, representing different language and text types; 3. Interviews with famous creative writers in different genres who have done considerable translation work themselves. The issues discussed present a broad spectrum of theoretical, textual and contextual specifics in the field of translation.

ISBN: 81-7551-031-5                        Rs. 400 | USD 20

Biography

CP: A Short Biography of

C.P. Ramaswami Iyer

A. Raghu

Dr. Sachivottama Sir C.P. Ramaswami Aiyar is one of the most controversial, yet fascinating figures in the history of the Kerala region. This monograph is the first-ever objective biography of CP. This little book not only gives a vivid chronicle of the public life of CP but also attempts to come to grips with the inner man. Written in a succinct and lucid style, the book is remarkable as a biography as also a piece of literary art.

ISBN: 81-7551-055-2                         Rs. 100 | USD 5

Creative Writing

The Songs of Daya Bai

Daya Bai ki Bani

Harry Aveling & Peter Friedlander

The poet-mystic, Daya Bai, wrote in Hindi in Delhi during the eighteenth century. Osho Rajneesh has called her “A little cuckoo,” meaning that she was “a sweet singer like the Indian koyal.” The book offers her voice in simple English prose translation. It will be of interest to students of literature and religion, and to those who seek a deeper understanding of Indian society & the place of women in it.

ISBN: 81-7551-169-9                       Rs. 200 | USD 10


Song of a Bard and Other Poems

Dilip Sankar Reddy

The anthology of poems, in three parts, contains fascinating poems, with a wide range of themes: from love to mundane realities, fiction to facts, and the essential truths of life.

ISBN: 81-7551-165-6                        Rs. 200 | USD 10


Cracks in the Wall: A Collection of Poems with a comprehensive introduction to Contemporary Indian Poetry

P.V. Dhamija

The volume contains 36 poems by the author, with a preface by the renowned poet Shiv K. Kumar. A special feature of the book is the introductory chapter that makes a comprehensive study of modern Indian poetry.

ISBN: 81-85218-06-4                          Rs. 100 | USD 5


Cross and Creation

An Anthology of Poems

Pashupati Jha

The collection deals with the eternal themes of love, life, suffering and hope for salvation. In addition, it incorporates the contemporary complex problems like incresing individuality and the resultant isolation, growing tension in man-woman relationship, fragmentation of society and family, the plight of old men and Indian women, militancy and communal violence.

ISBN: 81-7551-135-4                       Rs. 150 | USD 7.5


Girls Go Wild

Kiran Pallod

A fantastic maiden novel by the teenager Kiran Pallod, a new star on the literary horizon. Set in the USA, this is the story of Kim, an American girl from a middle-class family, who because of the attitude of the people around her is made to believe that her parents are going to get divorced. A must for all youngsters who love to read, especially for girls. Tomboys for sure will love it.

ISBN: 81-7551-106-0                       Rs. 100 | USD 5


Shattered Hopes: A novel

Daya de Silva

An excellent novel by an eminent Sri Lankan writer. The protagonist Nelu, who had begun to build a successful academic career in Chicago, hears that her mother is in hospital after a tragic traffic accident. As the story unfolds, Nelu reflects on her father, a professor from Sri Lanka, who had failed to secure an appointment in an American university. In the concluding pages, Nelu reflects upon the challenges faced by contemporary career women and the choices she herself made.

ISBN: 81-7551-104-4                       Rs. 250 | USD 12.5


A Story of True Love: A Novel

Omesh Mathur

An English translation of Urdu novel, Samrhae Naykie (Reward of Kindness) written in 1928, it tells the story of a rich young Englishman, Nevlin Lane. Family conflicts and harassment drive him from a life of luxury and material comforts to a life of poverty and hard labor in an Australian gold mine. By coincidence, he meets Sylvia Bond, a cultured and talented girl whose parents were at one time wealthy and well respected. The story reveals the true love that binds the two.

ISBN: 81-7551-089-7                           Rs. 500 | USD 25


Beyond the Tunnel: a novel

P.V. Dhamija

The novel delineates two distinct levels of response to Evil in society. The story undulates through the lives and careers of two friends, Jagdeesh and Ajeet, different in respect of age and attitude but tied together by unbreakable bonds of mutual concern and affection.

ISBN: 81-7551-024-2                         Rs. 120 | USD 6


Dark Passion: a novel

Sarala Barnabas

The novel presents a gripping tale of love, passion, and dark secrets hidden for decades. The central character in the novel is Piyali, the descendant of the former ruling house of Chandravats of Divyasthala, a beautiful, tall, regal girl with blue eyes. A narrative simply irresistible.

ISBN: 81-7551-013-7                         Rs.120 | USD 6


Following the Game

A Collection of Stories

John Cailes

The nineteen stories in the volume are of varying length, each having little in common with its neighbours. The stories range from the comic to the tragic to the downright cruel. There's a ghost story, a fantasy, satire and at the end a cautionary tale to conclude this diverse collection.

ISBN: 81-7551-148-6                       Rs. 250 | USD 12.5


Games They Play and Other Stories

Ramesh K. Srivastava

The stories in the volume have a great appeal and the reader is irresistibly drawn by the sheer force of the narrative. A special feature of the book is the introductory chapter on contemporary Indian short story.

ISBN: 81-85218-08-0                        Rs. 100 | USD 5

Love and Lust: a novel

P.V. Dhamija

The novel delineates a society where people of influence thrive at the cost of their poor & unfortunate brethren. Woman in this society is a victim of masculine rapacity and violence.

ISBN: 81-85218-05-6                         Rs. 100 | USD 5


The Encounter: a novel

P.V. Dhamija

Yet another novel from the author of Love and Lust . It depicts an exciting encounter between two cultures, Indian & West European, and focuses on their sparkling interface.

ISBN: 81-85218-68-4                         Rs. 100 | USD 5

The Long Walk: Indian Plantation Labour in Sri

Lanka in the Nineteenth Century

Ian Driesen

A number of scholars have undertaken detailed studies on Indian labour in Africa, Mauritius, Fiji, Southeast Asia and the West Indies, but its history in Sri Lanka has never been investigated. The book by Ian vanden Driesen fills that gap and the mosaic is now complete. The study, highly stimulating and refreshing, has a great appeal to the general reader. It makes a rich contribution to the scholarly areas of Economic Growth, Immigrant Studies, Indo-Sri Lankan Relations, South Asian Studies, and Inter-disciplinary Studies.

ISBN: 81-7551-047-1                       Rs. 500 | USD 25


Divine Akbar and Holy India

Farzana Moon

This is an excellent work of historical fiction. Akbar is the child of India, nurtured by its God and Goddesses. A devotee of truth, wisdom and knowledge, he embraced and explored the beauty of all religions in an effort to weave the tapestry of one united whole. This saga unfolds such a tapestry in colours warm and exquisite. The theme itself was a journey toward unity in time and timelessness. On the path to truth, Akbar invited padres and theologians from all over the world to discover similarities in religions, not disparities. On the path to love, he became the disciple of his Hindu and Muslim brides, paying homage to the sanctity in beauty, both physical and spiritual.

ISBN: 81-7551-088-9                      Rs. 800 | USD 40


Growing from Within:A Study in Self-Actualization

N.E. Bhagyavathi

An exhaustive discussion of the concept of Self-Actualization which is posited as a central motivating force that impels human behaviour and determines the course of development and expression of human personality.

ISBN: 81-85218-30-7                       Rs. 300 | USD 15

Religion/Indology

Episodes from Uttara Ramayana: Stories for the Modern Man

V.V. Sarma

Rama is an embodiment of virtue and righteousness. His attributes expound an exemplary behaviour for mankind of the succeeding ages. Ramayana , a great monumental work composed by Valmiki, is his life story. The book is very useful and interesting compilation of Sarma's translation of a few marvellous and hitherto unearthed stories.

ISBN: 81-7551-                                    Rs. 200 | USD 10

Higher Education

Funding Higher Education

Joy Job Kulavelil

The book discusses one of the most controversial topical issues of higher education—should universities and institutions of higher learning conform to the traditional pattern based on support from the government or should the students fund their education. Keeping in mind the contemporary paradigms of education, the author offers a pragmatic solution to the problem being discussed in educational curriculum.

Dictionary

Chang-English English-Chang

Dictionary

Achilla Imlong Erdican

Chang is one of the most important languages spoken and written in the state of Nagaland. The dictionary makes a pioneering attempt at presenting a standard spelling system and definitive meanings of the words in this language. The book makes a rich contribution to language and linguistic studies in Asia.

ISBN: 81-7551-132-X                            Rs. 500 | USD 25

English Literature: New and Old

Thomas Briggs, Herzberg, Bolenius

2 vol. set Rs. 1600

A Concise Encyclopaedia

A.C. Cawley Rs. 200

Marriage in the Eighteenth Century English Novel

Sarup Singh Rs. 320

Jane Austen: An Anthology of Recent Criticism

Harish Trivedi, ed. Rs. 400

Forster's A Passage to India

An Anthology of Recent Criticism

G.K. Das & C.R. Devadawson, ed. Rs. 450

India in the Works of Kipling, Forster and Naipaul: Postcolonial Revaluations

Purabi Panwar Rs. 400

George Eliot: Self & Society in Her Novels

D.S. Dalal Rs. 300

Nature and Human Nature in Thomas Hardy's Novels

Mainak Dutt Rs. 400

D.H. Lawrence: A Critical Study

Inderjit Wadhawan Rs. 350

Graham Greene

S.K. Sharma Rs. 300

Greene, Isherwood, Orwell & Waugh

Urmil Talwar Rs. 425

Joseph Conrad

Ranjit Kapur Rs. 200

The Novels of Iris Murdoch

P.P. Punja Rs. 250

Edgar Allan Poe: Style and Structure of His Short Stories

Satish Kumar Rs. 400

Laurence Sterne: A Critical Revaluation

A.K. Lal Rs. 200

The Theme of Temptation in Milton

Sushil Sharma Rs. 300

P.B. Shelley: An Anthology of Recent Criticism

N.P. Singh, ed. Rs. 400

W.H. Auden and Other Oxford Group of Poets

B.K. Bhattacharya Rs. 400

Studies on T.S. Eliot

A.N. Dwivedi Rs. 300

John Keats: Philosophy of Love

Namita Singh Rs. 250

John Keats: An Anthology of Criticism

E. Nageswara Rao, ed. Rs. 350

W.B. Yeats: An Anthology of Criticism

G.R. Taneja, ed. Rs. 400

Shakespearean Comedy

Avtar Singh Rs. 200

Love and Beauty in Shakespeare

R.S. Tiwary Rs. 450

The Tragic Heroes of Shakespeare

D.S. Pannu Rs. 400

Re-Discovering Shakespeare: An Indian Scrutiny

V.Y. Kantak Rs. 260

The Pattern of Tragicomedy in Bernard Shaw

C.D. Sidhu Rs. 300

Ibsen and Shaw: A Critical Evaluation

J.D. Dhingra (2 vols.) Rs. 500

Commonwealth Literature

Other Englishes Essays on Commonwealth Writing

Niaz Zaman, ed. Rs. 300

Essays in Commonwealth Literature

C.D. Narasimhaiah Rs. 400

Canadian Literature: Recent Essays

Manorama Trikha, ed. Rs. 450

Patrick White and Shakespeare

Shaikh Samad Rs. 300

Post-Colonial African Fiction: The Crisis of Consciousness

Mala Pandurang Rs. 400

Prophet from the Desert Critical Essays on Patrick White

John McLaren Rs. 500

The Novels of Achebe and Ngugi

K. Indrasena Reddy Rs. 300

Subversive Women: Women's Movements in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean

Saskia Wieringa Rs. 300

Remapping Culture: Nobel Laureates in Literature (1986-1997)

C. Vijayasree Rs. 250

Indian English Literature

Explorations in Modern Indo-English Fiction

R.K. Dhawan Rs. 400

Contemporary Indian English Fiction

K.N. Awasthi Rs. 300

Victim Consciousness in Indian English Novel

Usha Bande, ed. Rs. 300

Mothers and Mother-Figures in Indo-English Literature

Usha Bande Rs. 250

Symbolism in Indian English Fiction

Ramesh K. Srivastava Rs. 400

English Studies in India: Widening Horizons

C.D. Narasimhaiah Rs. 495

Twentieth Cen. Indian English Fiction

M.K. Naik Rs. 450

Continuities in Indian English Poetry:

G.J.V. Prasad Rs. 400

Indian Literature: Positions & Propositions

K. Satchidanandan Rs. 400

Makers of Indian English Literature

C.D. Narasimhaiah, ed. Rs. 495

Perspectives on Indian Literary Culture

V.Y. Kantak Rs. 400

Rethinking Indian English Literature

U.M. Nanavati and P.C. Kar, ed. Rs. 300

The Twice Born Fiction: Themes and Techniques of the Indian Novel in Eng.

Meenakshi Mukherjee Rs. 350

Indian English Literature, 1980-2000: A Critical Survey

M.K. Naik and Shyamala Narayan Rs. 495

Author, Texts, Issues: Essays on Indian Literature

K. Satchidanandan Rs. 260

The Fiction of Anita Desai

R.K. Dhawan Rs. 300

Women in the Novels of Anita Desai

Virender Parmar Rs. 400

The Novels of Kamala Markandaya and Arun Joshi

A.A. Sinha Rs. 300

Jhabvala's Heat and Dust

Harinder K. Sohi Rs. 100

U.R. Anantha Murthy's Samskara : A Critical Reader

Kailash C. Baral, et al Rs. 480

Perspectives on Kamala Das's Prose

Iqbal Kaur Rs. 300

The Perforated Sheet Essays on Salman Rushdie's Art

Uma Parameswaran Rs. 100

Narayan's Style

Anil Daditch Rs. 400

Social Realism in R.K. Narayan's Novels

Veena Mohod Rs. 300

Myths and Symbols in Raja Rao and R.K. Narayan

Rajesh K. Pallan Rs. 400

Message in Design: A Study of R.K. Narayan's Fiction

P.S. Ramana Rs. 400

R.K. Narayan: An Anthology of Recent Criticism

C.N. Srinath, ed. Rs. 450

Rabindranath Tagore

Rita D. Sil Rs. 450

Theme of Alienation in Contemporary Indian English Poetry

Shashi Kant Uppal Rs. 500

Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay: The Romantic Rebel

Sakuntala Narasimhan Rs. 200

Perspectives on Kamala Das's Poetry

Iqbal Kaur Rs. 300

Sri Aurobindo: His Poetry & Poetic Theory

Prem Tyagi Rs. 300

Sri Aurobindo: The Poet

R.L. Varshney & S. Prabha Rs. 200

Need for a New Religion & Other Essays

Khushwant Singh Rs. 125

Jawaharlal Nehru: The Man & the Writer

R.K. Thakur Rs. 400

American Literature

The Most Popular Plays of the American Theatre

(10 longest-running plays of the American Stage, with Intro. & Notes)

Stanley Richards, ed. 704 pp. Rs. 400

American Short Plays

Roman Delgado 5 volumes Rs. 1500

The Norton Book of American Short Stories

Peter Prescott 780 pp. Rs. 400

Science Fiction and Fantasy

George Zebrowski 366 pp. Rs. 300

What It Means to be an American: Essays on the American Experience

Michael Malzer Rs. 200

Coming to America: A History of Immigration and Ethnicity in American Life

Roger Daniels 450 pp. Rs. 400

First Person America

Ann Banks 288 pp. Rs. 300

The Plays of Eugene O'Neill (3 vols.)
3-vol. set Rs. 900

Vol. 1 The Hairy Ape, The Iceman Cometh, Anna Christie, Beyond the Horizon, The Emperor Jones, The Great God Brown, The Straw, Dynamo, Days without End

728 pages Rs. 300

Vol. 2 Gold, Mourning Becomes Electra, Ah Wilderness!, All God's Chillun Got Wings, The First Man, Marco Millions, Welded, Diff'rent 692 pages Rs. 300

Vol. 3 The Dreamy Kid, Desire under the Elms, Strange Interlude, Lazarus Laughed, The Fountain, The Moon of the Caribbees, Bound East for Cardiff, The Long Voyage Home, In the Zone, Ile, Where the Cross is Made, The Rope, Before Breakfast

634 pages Rs. 300

Contemporary American Jewish Novel

T.S. Anand (2 vols.) Rs. 500

Critical Studies in English and American Literature

Ramesh K. Srivastava Rs.300

Colonial Consciousness in Black American, African and Indian English Fiction

Ramesh Srivastava Rs. 400

Critical Essays on American Novel

T.S. Anand Rs. 450

Perspectives on Afro-American Novel

T.S. Anand Rs. 300

The Fiction of Bernard Malamud

R. Astro and Jackson J. Benson Rs. 300

Saul Bellow in the 1980s

A Collection of Critical Essays

Cronin and Goldman, ed. Rs. 400

Saul Bellow & the Modern Wasteland

G. Neelakanthan Rs. 300

Saul Bellow: Vision and Revision

Daniel Fuchs 348 pp. Rs. 400

Saul Bellow: The Feminine Mystique

T.S. Anand Rs. 175

The Hemingway Arc

N. Ramachandran Nair Rs. 300

The Hero in Hemingway

B.S. Dahiya Rs. 300

Henry James: A Life

Leon Edel 740 pp. Rs. 300

Henry James: Craftsmen-Critic of the Novel

R.S. Tripathi Rs. 300

Creative Writing

Possession: A Romance

Winner of 1990 Booker Prize

A.S. Byatt Rs. 300

Esmond in India

Ruth Jhabvala Rs. 300

How I Became a Mother

Ruth Jhabvala Rs. 300

The Stream Within: Short Stories by Contemporary Bengali Women

Swati Ganguly and S. Dutta Rs. 130

Indelible Imprints Daughters Write on Fathers

Priti T. Desai, et al. Rs. 140

Courtyards of My Childhood

Promila Chatterjee Rs. 150

Sketches from My Past Encounters with India's Oppressed

(Trans. of Ateet ke Chalchitra by

Mahadevi Varma ) N. Sohoni, trans. Rs. 250

The Slate of Life: Short Stories by Women Rs. 70

Dissection Box

Ajit Singh Rs. 150

Beyond the Threshold: Indian Women on the Move

Yashoda Bhat, ed. Rs. 395

Theory

Creating Theory: Writers on Writing

Jasbir Jain, ed. Rs. 400

Critical Spectrum: Essays in Literary Culture in honour of Prof. C.D. Narasimhaiah

Satish C. Aikant, ed. Rs. 550

Translation and Multilingualism:Post-Colonial Context

Shantha Ramakrishna, ed. Rs. 400

Theory and Praxis: Curriculum, Culture & English Studies

Prafulla C. Kar et al Rs. 495

Translation as Recovery

Sujit Mukherjee Rs. 380

Feminism: Theory, Criticism, Analysis

Sushila Singh Rs. 400

Oblique Poetry and the Western Poetics

R.S. Pathak Rs. 400

Vakrokti and Stylistic Concepts

R.S. Pathak Rs. 200

Poetic and Non-Poetic Discourse

R.S. Pathak Rs. 300

Comparative Literature

R.K. Dhawan, ed. Rs. 400

Untying and Retying the Text: Kamala Das

Iqbal Kaur Rs. 300

Derrida's Heel of Achilles & Other Essays

K.V. Tirumalesh Rs. 200

Teaching English Literature

Gurupdesh Singh Rs. 250

The Semiotics of Creative Process in the 18th Century France

H.S. Gill Rs. 150

Newspaper English in India

Vinod S. Dubey Rs. 300

Non-Formal Education

R.P. Singh Rs. 150

Hopkins and Syntax

S.K. Agrawal Rs. 250

Structural Semiotics

A.J. Greimas and H.S. Gill Rs. 200

Papers in Language and Linguistics

U.S. Bahri Rs. 300

Critical Perspectives on Indian Education

Di Bona Rs. 400

Dictionary

Urdu-English Dictionary

Abdul Haq Rs. 300

English-Urdu Dictionary

Abdul Haq Rs. 300

English-Punjabi Dictionary

Rev. W.P. Herpes Rs. 300

Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Waman Shivram Apte Rs. 200

Religion

Rig Veda: A Scientific and Intellectual Analysis of the Hymns

J.K. Trikha Rs. 200

Saints, Gurus and Mystics of India

Giriraj Shah 2 vol. set Rs. 795

Buddhism in India and Abroad

An Integrating Influence in Vedic and Post-Vedic Perspective

K. Sankarnarayan, et al Rs. 800

Hinduism and Buddhism

Iyengar & Coomaraswamy Rs. 250

The Bhagavata Purana

Ghana Kanta Bhagwati Rs. 550

The Bhagavad Gita

Georges Gracieuse Rs. 60

Hindu Mythology

Tr. Iyengar Rs. 150

Jnaneshvai: Path to Liberation

Fr. Felix Machado Rs. 575

Hindu Manners, Customs & Ceremonies

Abbe J.A. Dubois 750pp. Rs. 300

Political Science

Sabarmati to Dandi: Gandhi's Non-Violent March and the Raj

Jyotsna Tiwari Rs. 275

Triumph and Tragedy: Psychohistorical Decisions of Mahatma Gandhi

Prakash Desai & H. Muslin Rs. 495

Father of the Constitution of India

Swapan Kumar Biswas Rs. 250

U.S. Policy towards South Asia

Aftab Alam Rs. 350

Mysteries and Glimpses of Kashmir

Mohammad Yasin and Madhavi Yasin

Foreword by Dr. Karan Singh Rs. 400

Foreign Impact on Indian Life & Culture

Satyendranath Naskar Rs. 450

My South Block Years: Memoirs of a Foreign Secretary

J.N. Dixit Rs. 225

Personnel Administration & Management: Concepts and Techniques

Simmi Goel Rs. 450

The Hindu-Muslim Problem

B.N. Pande Rs. 40

Marginal Communities and Social Development

Snehlata Chandra Rs. 495

Kinship and Family in the North East

J.S. Bhandari, ed. Rs. 695