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Communication Skills in English

The twenty- first century can be called the era of skill based era as well as the era of excellence. The word excellence is very important in nowadays, because everyone wants Excellency in every field of life. Here is talked about the Excellency over communication in English.Communication Skills in ..

Doorsteps to Eternity : Ghats of Varanasi

This book is about the ghats on the bank of the Ganga in Varanasi. In common parlance ghat means the steps and the adjacent area on the banks of a river. The steps lead to and fro the riverfront. The term ‘Ghat’ also refers to the area in the vicinity of any river, from where one can reach the ..

Sony

Explications of English Literary Texts : Poetry, F...

Literature interprets life. However life is not easy to be interpreted. Critical approaches emerged to help us to explicate literature and in a wider sense life itself. This book focuses on the practical application of critical theories. The preface of the book briefly contains a simplified version ..

Kavita Arya

History At The Crossroad : Investigating Partition...

The Present Volume is a study of the involvement of the Indian English novelists with history investigating Partition Novels. These novelists accepted the Partition as side issue in novels which pursued the policy of the Britisher's 'divide and rule' engulfing communal riots in India. It also discus..

Mind Games and Success in Interviews

Mind games explore the key mysteries of the mind and the question of consciousness. The stimulating mind games are used as a vehicle for investigating the complexities of the way the mind works. The present book contains inventive and engaging thought experiments for the general reader.Preparing for..

21st Century Diaspora: A Study of Chitra Banerjee ...

In Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's work we have women who either live abroad or happen to be visiting India. These women are no doubt conditioned by the Indian upbringing but have risen above the traditional constraints. They are torn between old and the new values. Throughout her work, Divakaruni uses..

A Jewish American Saga: Philip Roth’s Zuckerman ...

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Aspects of Literature: A Critical Exploration

ABOUT THE BOOKAspects of Literature: A Critical Exploration is a collection of scholarly essays written on diverse topics. The book critically explores the fields of drama, poetry, and literary criticism. The critical studies included in this book encompass William Shakespeare, Rabindranath Tagore, ..

Body Politics: Rethinking Gender and Masculinity

The research on men and masculinities traces back to the women’s and gay liberation movements that challenged existing understandings of gender and power. This proposes to look into gender as socially constructed than what was earlier thought to be biological. As a logical extension of Feminism, Mas..

Break in the Clouds

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Cadence of Love Divine: Indian Poetry in English

There is a passion in the Universe: the young Stars and Whirling Galaxies --the living pulsing Earth thrives in the passionate embrace of Life itself. Our love for one another is the language of oue passionate God. It is a desire that spins us around, desire that sends the blood through our veins, d..

Climate Fiction: Ecological Dimensions

ABOUT THE BOOKClimate Fiction: Ecological Dimensions offers an introspective gaze into intersections of literature, film and ecology to recognise how fiction mediates the Anthropocene. Employing postcolonial and intersectional lenses, this volume will interrogate the historical legacies of coloniali..

Comparative Perspectives in Partition Novels

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Contemporary Indian English Novels: Man-Woman Rela...

The book has attempted to envision the relationships between men and women and their roles in society which are sadly unequal and reflective of a certain patriarchal philosophy. These facts are often embodied in the conception of literature and literary transcripts of feminist writers of contemp..

Contemporary Indian Women Novelists (1900-1947) Vo...

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Cuckoo in Crisis: An Anthology of Poems

Prakriti and Purusha are two permanent entities - one completes itself in consonance with the other. Women, the representative of Prakriti have been in crisis for a long time, not only in undeveloped but also in developing countries. The crisis owes its origin to a break from tradition, multicultura..

Dalit Feminism & Dalit Women Narratives: An An...

Indian Feminism dismisses the need to include the intricacies of Caste as a major issue which problematises many other areas and concerns specifically for Dalit women and their lives on the margin of the margin. Dalit feminism aims to redirect and reorient Indian Feminism for inclusion and attention..

Diaspora and Transnationalism : Gender, Race and ...

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Diaspora Literature: Studies in Theories and Cultu...

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Diasporic Identities in Literature

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Eco-Feminist Perspective : Select Works of Kamala ...

The 'female body' since time immemorial is associated with Nature and has found corresponding representation in literature. But the female body is reduced to a mere matter in modern times. With the advent of Ecofeminism, the female body too has become an element of grave concern, an extended landsca..

Ecocritical Representation of Literature : An Indi...

The book “Ecocritical Representation of Literature: An Indian Perspective” is a collection of critical essays, which unfolds a new direction for the analytic and independent thinking in the field of literature and nature study. Human being and nature are two inseparable entities since time immemoria..

Edward Said’s Orientalism: A Critique of Western...

This book locates Edward W. Said in the discipline of Postcolonial studies and Orientalism of which he was a progenitor as well. Out of all his works Orientalism (1978) is the most discussed and criticized book. The present book elucidates the unique features of Said's discourse on orientalism (a Eu..

English Fictional World in the 21st Century

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English Grammar and Translation

English grammar is the grammar of the English language. Grammar is the rules about how to speak and write in a language. English grammar started out based on Old English, which is considered to be a Germanic language. After the Norman French conquered England in 1066, parts of the Latin language wer..

English Grammar: A Complete Guide

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Epistemes of Death : A Sociological Inquiry

Death and dying experiences are not common across human race because humans do not share common cultural heritage and physical environment. The fact of death thus can be considered as socially constructed fact abounded by idiosyncratic religious beliefs and rituals existing within social life. It is..

Essentials of Basic Grammar and Literature

This book is especially designed to help the students of Amity University. An attempt has been made to enrich the book with simple language, lucid expression. This book could help them in preparing for the verbal sections of many assessment and entrance exams. By practicing the contents given in..

Existential Temporality : The Plays of Girish Karn...

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Explications of English Literary Texts : Poetry, F...

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Feminism: Assumptions and Arguments

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Feminist Perspectives in The Fiction of Shashi Des...

ABOUT THE BOOKShashi Deshpande's novels and short stories primarily explore experiences of oppression of Indian woman in the domestic set up. Experiences which are rooted in " the presumption that [a woman] is an inferior being ,of carrying the burden of being an unwanted female child, of having to ..

Fifty Major Novels in English Literature

This comprehensive study is indented to be useful and popular among students because of the simplicity and directness of explanations of the various terms and concepts, its wealth of illustrative examples enables the reader to assimilate the content without being intimidated by its range and scope. ..

Fifty Major Novels in English Literature

This comprehensive study is indented to be useful and popular among students because of the simplicity and directness of explanations of the various terms and concepts, its wealth of illustrative examples enables the reader to assimilate the content without being intimidated by its range and scope. ..

Gabriel Garcia Marquez : Quest for Meaning

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Green Rhetoric: Trends in Environmental Discourse

ABOUT THE EDITORSAnwesha Gogoi is presently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of English, at BRM Govt. Model College, Doomdooma, Assam, India. She completed her M.A. in English Literature from Tezpur University, Assam, and her M.Phil. from Dibrugarh University, Assam. She is curren..

Haunted Selves: Trauma, History and Identity in To...

ABOUT THE BOOKFractured Selves: Identity Crisis and Trauma in the Novels of Toni Morrison is a profound literary exploration of how one of America’s most celebrated writers unveils the psychological and cultural complexities of Black identity. From The Bluest Eye to God Help the Child, this scholarl..

How to Sell Your Way through Life

Napoleon Hill’s timeless classic, Think and Grow Rich, has the distinction of being the best read self–help book of the twentieth century. Not so well known is how Hill earned his livelihood before he wrote ‘Think and Grow Rich’. ‘How to Sell Your Way through Life’, written in the depth of the Great..

Incredible Naipaul: The Literary Circumnavigator

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Indian English Poetry after Independence

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Indian Fiction in English: Post-Colonial Discourse...

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Intersecting Narratives: Feminist Insights and Phi...

ABOUT THE BOOKIntersecting Narratives: Feminist Insights and Philosophical Discourse is a thought-provoking anthology that traverses diverse intellectual landscapes, uniting feminist perspectives with philosophical explorations. This book delves into critical issues like gender dynamics, personal na..

Kampilya: Unraveling the Essence of History, Liter...

ABOUT THE BOOKKampilya : Unravelling the Essence of History, Literature and Spirit is a multidisciplinary exploration of one of ancient India's most culturally and spiritually significant cities. Kampilya—revered across Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist traditions—emerges in this volume as a vibrant conflue..

Lawrence Durrell as a Novelist: A Study

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Literary Culture across the World: Ecocritical Stu...

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Literary Voices and Social Realities: A Critical E...

ABOUT THE BOOKThis edited volume brings together a diverse range of scholarly essays that explore the rich intersections of literature, society, culture, and identity. Drawing from Indian and global literary traditions, the contributors critically engage with both canonical and contemporary works, ..

Mainstream Fifty Works of English Literature

This book is consisting of 50 chapters that are from nearabout all ages of English literature. These are the most important works by the most important writers to the UGC NET point of view. It covers the most important part in syllabus of D.U., B.H.U., K.U.U. M.D.U., P.U. and nearabout all universit..

Mapping Literature: Essays on Identity, Conflict a...

ABOUT THE BOOKMapping Literature: Essays on Identity, Conflict, and the Human Condition is a compelling exploration of the transformative power of literature to reflect and reshape our understanding of the world. This collection of essays traverses diverse literary landscapes, from the intimate vers..

Mary Margaret Kaye and Rumer Godden: A Comparative...

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Metaphysics of Confession: The Poetry of Sylvia Pl...

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Mother Nature’s Miracles

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Motherhood: Oppression and Delight

For centuries women have been oppressed and suppressed by the patriarchal forces. This book explores the reasons that have lead to male supremacy and female subjugation over the generations. Even though women are bestowed with the unique gift of motherhood this book analyses whether this gift is..

Motherhood: Social and Cultural Aspects

Women have been bestowed with the 'gift of motherhood,' is it a boon or a bane, does motherhood elevate and empower her or does it subjugate and enslave her? For generations women have faced suppression and subjugation in the hands of patriarchal forces, this book explores the oppression of wome..

Mulk Raj Anand's Novels: A Sociolinguistic Study

Sociolinguistic approach is a vital tool to study the effects of all the aspects of society, including cultural norms, expectations, and context, in the way language is used, and the effects of language use on society. It investigates the interrelationship between language use and society.The Indian..

Multiple Narratives: Studies in Intra-Cultural Lit...

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Multiple Waves

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My Dadu : To my Grandfather who Never Knew Old Age

The My Dadu series of poems are cryptic compositions of an ambivalent relationship between two minds set 60 years apart. The subject of the poems is the intriguing behavior of the grandfather who used to spend all his time in the study and sometimes interacted with strangers for the publication and ..

New Media New Poetics: The Changing Interface

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Partition: A Divided Legacy

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Personality Development and Soft-Skills

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Perspectives on Indian Fiction Writing in English

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Perspectives on Indian Writing in English: Text an...

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Pheonix: Triumph of Life

The biography titled Phoenix: Triumph of Life (A Biography) authored by Dr. M.A. Afzal Farooq is a brilliantly detailed life sketch of Alhaj Late Wazed Ali from an obscure village called Batamari in the district of Nagaon, Assam. The biography realistically portrays the besetting trials and trib..

Pick of the Basket

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Protean Images: A Study of Womanhood in Victorian ...

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Psychic Odyssey of Women: The Novels of Manju Kapu...

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Quintessence of Dalit Literature : Rebel Narrative...

The book in your hand is more than a mere jacketed manuscript. It's a veritable account of Dalit sensibility tossed among the various phases of struggle, revolution and challenges on the one hand and on the other hand, hope expectation and freedom. It treats Dalit Literature as violent volcano that ..

Quintessence of Dalit Literature: Rebel Narratives

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Recent Trends in English Language Teaching

Today, it is impossible to be a good language teacher without the knowledge of Language Teaching. There has been hardly any very few existing literature on the pedagogy and philosophy of education blended with the language teaching and language learning contexts across the our country.  To ..

Reflections of Indian Literary Horizons: Poetic an...

ABOUT THE BOOKReflections of Indian Literary Horizons: Poetic and Fictional Insights offers a comprehensive and nuanced exploration of the rich landscape of Indian literature. This collection of essays provides an in-depth analysis of both poetry and fiction, tracing their evolution and highlighting..

Renaissance, Translation and Poetry: Essays in Cri...

Renaissance, Translation and Poetry: Essays in Criticism has been developed out of some critical essays which were written at different times. Hence, it covers a wide and variegated range of subjects. The first essay “The Spirit of Renaissance” explains Derozio’s philosophy of life and his works as ..

Revisiting Partition and Bangladesh Liberation War...

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Savitayan

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Self-Delusion and Fragmentation in the Modern Fami...

Shobhaa De is one of those Indian English writers who occupy a distinctive place as a journalist as well as novelist in the literary world of India. Her popularity as a novelist rests with her ability to portray sensitive aspects of human life, social and sexual relationship and women's psychology w..

Selfhood and Agency in Post-1990: Indian Women Aut...

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Shashi Deshpande: Texts and Contexts

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Simplification of Literary Theories

The book 'Simplification Of Literary Theories' is aimed at students unacquainted with theory – undergraduates and postgraduates especially, and also for instructors or teachers who need a refresher approach and handy material on the subject. The book is about the recent critical literary theories li..

Sita in the Ramayana Traditions

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Smile and Tears in Childhood: A Psychoanalytical S...

ABOUT THE BOOKSmile and Tears in Childhood offers a deep psychoanalytical exploration of Rabindranath Tagore’s children’s literature, revealing the emotional complexities and inner worlds of his young characters. Tagore, a visionary poet and philosopher, approached childhood not merely as a phase of..

Social Perspectives in Shiv K Kumar’s Fiction

Shiv K. kumar's fiction is a strong base of social realism. Realism in literature is an approach that attempt to describe life without idealization of romantic subjectivity. In this sense, Kumar's fiction is like a mirror which reflects social realities vividly. Infidelity in love and  marriage..

Social Realism: The Novels of William Styron

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Kavita Arya

Society Civilization Literature Assimilation

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Socrates in Verse

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South Asian Literature, Culture and Society : An I...

South Asia or Southern Asia is a term used to represent the southern region of the Asian continent. South Asia is composed of eight countries of impressive diversity in religion, culture and history. These politically divided autonomous eight countries are Afghanistan, Bangladesh..

Strategies and Methods: Relocating Textual Meaning

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Strategies and Methods: Relocating Textual Meaning

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Ten Mahavidyas

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The Eternal Circle: Kashi and The Cosmic Imaginati...

In these meditative explorations, Charusheel Singh stands as an illustrious poet-scholar of mythic and metaphysical resonance, whose verse transmutes ontology into mantra and philosophy into flame. His poetics of sacred semiosis fuses Vedic hermeneutics with postmodern reflexivity, reimagining myth ..

The Land of Early Nightfall: Glimpses of the Liter...

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The Mirror and The Maze: A Journey through Litera...

ABOUT THE BOOKThis book serves as a guide to the major schools of literary theory and the essential terms that shape critical interpretation. Literature is not just art; it is a reflection of society, power, psychology, and identity. Through lenses such as Marxism, psychoanalysis, feminism, and post..

The Novels of Shashi Deshpande: A New Perspective

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The Novels of Shashi Deshpande: A Study of Human R...

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The Spirit of the Thirties in the Major Fiction of...

This book is a comprehensive study of the whole oeuvre of John Steinbeck, his fiction about the Depression era of the Thirties and the Dust Bowl trilogy, encounter with the American Dream and the prevailing socio-economic and political conditions of both depressions / post-depression torments.Th..

Thrice Born Nymph: Female Poetics in Elaine Showal...

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Tiny Droplets

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Transnationalism, Hybridity and Alienation: The Ex...

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Triumphant Failure : The Fiction of Abraham Cahan

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Twentieth Century Literary Criticism and Theory

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Understanding Marginalization: Contemporary Englis...

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Utopia to Negative Utopia: A Critical Study of Som...

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Views and Values

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Virginia Woolf: The Negotiations of Reality

About the BookThe novels of Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) have attracted the attention of a large number of eminent scholars who have tried to study the nature of the world presented by her in her novels but their observations are diverse. Her contemporaries labelled her as a hyperesthete, a high pries..

Voices and Visions: Exploring Identity, Politics a...

ABOUT THE BOOKThis thought-provoking anthology of critical essays delves into the core of modern literary consciousness, intricately examining themes of identity, cultural conflict, and poetic innovation. Spanning the introspective melancholy of The Inheritance of Loss to the politically charged ver..

Woman Within Women : Shobha De’s Select Novels

Indian English women fiction has becoming as popular as men fiction. Women are no less in creative writing than men. There are hundreds of poets, playwrights, novelists and journalists in the field of Indian English writing.Shashi Deshpande, Kamala Markandaya, Gita Mehta, and  Anita Desai are o..

Women Writes Of The South Asian Diaspora: Interpre...

Women Writers of the South Asian Diaspora: Interpreting Gender, Texts and Contexts offers varied perspectives on the literary works of women writers hailing from South Asia and living in different parts of the world. This volume deals with themes and issues represented by well-known and newer author..

Women, Literature, and Society: Discovering Pakist...

It has rarely been easy to be a woman and a writer. Most often, women do not have a language and a space of their own, nor do they have economic independence and the confidence to write freely. They do not even enjoy a right to their own body. It thus becomes imperative that they refuse, at some poi..

इकोफेमिनिज्म: भारत...

पुस्तक परिचय 'इकोफेमिनिज्म' शीर्षक से लिखी इस पुस्तक में भारतीय पर्यावरणीय आंदोलनों में महिलाओं की भूमिका की वर्तमान भारतीय संदर्भ में समीक्षा की गई है। प्रस्तुत पुस्तक लेखक के शोध प्रबंध पर आधारित है जो भारत में पारिस्थितिकी नारीवादी के सैद्धांतिक, विचारधारात्मक और आंदोलनात्मक पक्षों का समीक्ष..