Indian Writing in English: Tradition and Modernity
Prasad, Amar Nath & Kanupriya
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Book ID : 31308
ISBN-10 : 81-7625-717-6 / 8176257176
ISBN-13 : 978-81-7625-717-6 / 9788176257176
Place
of Publication :
Delhi
Year
of Publication :
2006
Edition : (First Edition)
Language : English
x, 257p., 23 cm.
CONTENTS
CONTENTS:- Imagery in Sri Aurobindo's Plays; The Indian Philosophy and Indianism in Sri Aurobindo's Savitir; Tradition and Modernity: an Interpretation of Mulk Raj Anand's Untouchable; Gandhian Ideology and Raja Rao; East-West Encounter in Raja Rao's The Cat and Shakespear; The Novels of U.R. Anantha Murthy: A Critical Study; Dialectics of Society and Self in Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's Heat and Dust; Arun Joshi and The Gita; Dialectics of Society and Self in the Novels of Kamala Markandaya's A Handful of Rice; Social Web and Cry of the Self: A Critical Analysis of Anita Brookner's Hotel du Lac and Anita Desai's Where Shall We Go This Summer?; Amitav Ghosh in an Antique Land; Difficult Daughters: Travails in Self Identity; Revelation of Indian Culture and Civilization; Nissim Ezekiel's "Enterprise": An Interpretation; Ghashiram Kotwal in the Eyes of Audiences; My Life is not My Own: A Glimpse into Rani's Life in Girish Karnad's Nagmandala; Gay Themes in Dattani's Plays; A Kaleidoscopic Vision: Short Stories of Basavarj Naikar; The Emerging 'I' among Indian Women Poets; East-West Encounter in Indian Poetry in English; Indian Drama in English: An Introduction.
DESCRIPTION
Indian Writing in English: Tradition and Modernity is a collection of scholarly articles and research papers contributed by different scholars hailing from the different parts of the country. It critically evaluates the various aspects of Indian Writing in English. Some of the papers are also related to the different trends of Indian Writing in English. It covers the following authors: R.N. Tagore, Sri Aurobindo, Mulk Raj Anand, Raja Rao, U.R. Ananth Murthy, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Arun Joshi, Kamala Markandaya, Anita Desai, Amitav Ghosh, Manju Kapur, Nirad C. Choudhary, Nissim Ezekiel, Vijay Tendulkar, Girish Karnad, Mahesh Dattani and B.S. Naikar. All the papers of this book have been so judiciously selected that book have been so judiciously selected that they may certainly, as it is hoped, cater to the need of all types of readers-students, teachers and those research scholars who want to be acquainted with the writers of both modernity and tradition in Indian Writing in English.
