Download or read book The Ayodhya Cantos written by Rukmini Bhaya Nair and published by Viking Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this impressive collection of poems, Rukmini Bhaya Nair weaves together complex strands of mythology, history and contemporary reality to produce poetry that is richly allusive, lyrical and uncompromising. The eponymous cantos in the first section are in ironic meditation upon a significant moment of our timesýthe destruction of the Babri Masjid on 6 December 1992. Skilfully moving between the planes of myth and history, Nair crafts a national allegory that demonstrates not only brilliance of conception, but also throws up a strikingly new perspective on this event. Almost each page speaks of imaginative power and profound insights as the poemsý protagonistsýVishnu, Hanuman and Sitaýengage in a play that is at once cosmic and contemporary, a play that ultimately culminates in the events of 6 December. Intensely thought-provoking, these cantos glitter with technical brilliance and wit. The second section, Gargiýs Silence, named after Gargi of the Upanishads, a woman with intellectual yearnings, communicates Nairýs passionate concern for and empathy with issues relating to women as well as her fascination with language. An immensely enriching read, The Ayodhya Cantos reveals an accomplished poet at work.
Download or read book A Socio political Study of the V lm ki R m ya a written by Ramashraya Sharma and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 1986 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work presents in a critical and analytical way a comprehensive picture of ancient Indian culture and civilization as reflected in the Ramayana of Valmiki. In forming an estimate of the social and political consciousness of the Ramayanic people the author has not been guided by the obiter dicta interspersed throughout the poem but by the actual behaviour of the various characters of the poem. In his treatment of every social and political institution the author has tried to give in the beginning a brief resume of its evolution from the vedic times to the epic period.
Download or read book The Book Review written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Creativity in Language and Literature written by Joan Swann and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Creativity in Language and Literature is a provocative and valuable book. Its breadth of topics, variety of approaches, and self-consciously creative and dialogic nature are especially appropriate and creative ways of approaching the subject of creativity. The scope, variety and original content of this book make it a unique contribution to the field" - Professor David L. Hoover, New York University, USA This unique resource brings together contributions from creative practitioners and academic researchers working across different disciplines. Researchers, literary authors, editors, performers and film makers reflect on their work and collectively explore the art of creativity in language and literature. Creativity in Language and Literature covers a range of texts, genres and practices, such as poetry, hip hop, film, story telling, web chat and pen-friend correspondence. Each part of the book begins with an introduction and the final part includes critical responses to the idea of linguistic creativity, encouraging ongoing dialogue and debate. This richly diverse collection is an ideal text for students and practitioners working at all levels. With contributions by Patience Agbabi, Daniel Allington, R. Amritavalli, Richard D. Brown, Lynne Cameron, Ronald Carter, Guy Cook, Jon Cook, Ruth Finnegan, Angela Goddard, Ben Haggarty, Graeme Harper, G. D. Jayalakshmi, Angel Lin, Janet Maybin, Rukmini Bhaya Nair, Kate Pahl, Mario Petrucci, Rob Pope, Elena Semino, Fiona Sampson, Jane Spiro, Peter Stockwell, Joan Swann, S. Upendran and Michelene Wandor.
Download or read book Forbidden Sex Forbidden Texts written by Hoshang Merchant and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2020-11-29 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book argues that there is no monolithic homosexuality; there are only homosexualities, that is, there are as many reasons for being gay as there are gays. Some people are born gay, some have gayness thrust upon them, and some do, indeed, achieve to great gayness. Representation of homosexuality/homoeroticism, as it is understood today, is thus a western import. The act and public/social discourses on same-sex love are still illegal; it is, according to many, against the Indian ‘tradition’; and a sense of ‘history’ is seriously problematic when we dig out for a past tradition of homoerotic love and desire. Hoshang Merchant, through an examination of texts, films, poetry, attempts to analyse and crack the codes of sexual (mis)conduct in contemporary India, giving short histories of the fate of several gay writers and explaining the difficulties of ‘coming out’.
Download or read book Indian English Poetry written by K. V. Surendran and published by Sarup & Sons. This book was released on 2002 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Poets Discussed In This Volume Are Vivekananda, Toru Dutt, Rabindranath Tagore, Sarojini Naidu, Nissim Ezekiel, Kammala Das, A.K. Ramanujan, T.R. Rajasekharaiah, O.P. Bhatnagar, Sugathakumari, Melanie Silgardo, Eunice De Souza And A Ew Others.
Download or read book Postcolonial Poetry in English written by Rajeev S. Patke and published by Oxford Studies in Postcolonial. This book was released on 2006-06-15 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an introductory survey of contemporary poetry in English from all the regions that have developed into modern nations from the former British Empire. It is ideally suited for readers interested in world writing in English, contemporary literature, postcolonial writing, cultural studies, and postmodern culture.
Download or read book Kalidasa s Trilogy written by Dipavali Debroy and published by Smriti Books. This book was released on 2005-06 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adaptation of Kalidasa's three verse works in prose form.
Download or read book Quarterly Journal of the Andhra Historical Research Society written by Andhra Historical Research Society and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of members in each volume.
Download or read book Poetry Politics and Culture written by Akshaya Kumar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-03-14 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book maps the journey of the Indian poetic imagination—in Hindi, Panjabi and Indian English—from its original quasi-spiritual longings to its activist interventions in the public domain. As Indian poetry of the post-1990s gravitates towards a non-Orientalised postcolonial nationalism, it seeks to rewrite and disseminate the shifting coordinates of nationalist imagination in terms of the dissent of the subaltern discontents of the nation. The book is interdisciplinary: it studies Indian poetry from the new emerging imperatives of postcolonialism, new historiography (subaltern, dalit and diasporas), nationalism, and cultural studies. Covering the two major north Indian languages—Hindi and Punjabi—along with poetry in Indian English, the book is a close textual study of about 150 poetry collections in these languages. It is path-breaking in its study of secular poetry written in the so-called vernaculars, with critical attention to its participation in the political as well as cultural processes of nation-making. This cutting-edge book should be of interest to scholars of Indian writings in English, Hindi and Panjabi, gender studies, dalit and diaspora studies, postcolonial poetry and to students reading South Asian literature and culture.
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Sappho written by P. J. Finglass and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-29 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed up-to-date survey of the most important woman writer from Greco-Roman antiquity. Examines the nature and context of her poetic achievement, the transmission, loss and rediscovery of her poetry, and the reception of that poetry in cultures far removed from ancient Greece, including Latin America, India, China, and Japan.
Download or read book Indian Epic Values written by Gilbert Pollet and published by Peeters Publishers. This book was released on 1995 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume contains thirty contributions to the theme of the classical Indian epic Ramayana. These are revised and occasionally enlarged versions of papers read at the International Ramanaya Conference, held at the University of Leuven in July 1991 to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Sanskrit and Indological studies in Leuven and in Belgium. The annotated papers, in English, have been grouped in three chapters: 1. Valmiki's Ramayana and Sanskrit epic literature; 2. International impact: translations and adaptations, reception of Sanskrit language and literature in the scholarly world; 3. Universal human values in Ramayana. The index of names, titles and key words will prove useful for reference and occasional cross-reference.
Download or read book The Bengali Ramayanas written by Dineshchandra Sen and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Language Teaching written by Michael Toolan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-01-13 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates the relevance of an integrational linguistic perspective to a practical, real-world need, namely the learning of languages. Integrational linguistics’ shunning of both realist and structuralist theories of language, its commitment to an unwavering attention to the perspective of the language user, and its adherence to a semiology in which signs are the situated products of interactants interpretive behaviour, mean that it radically reconceptualizes language learning and language teaching. Detractors have implied that IL is so ‘philosophical’ or ‘theoretical’ an exercise that it has no useful bearing on the practical problems of language learning. These papers refute that misconception by demonstrating how an IL stance can help disentangle the conflicting considerations and contradictory assumptions that arise in a host of language teaching situations: first, second- and foreign-language classrooms in a diversity of settings (including India, Australia, the United States, and Hong Kong), with different age-groups of students, whether the focus is on speech or writing, and in more informal settings.
Download or read book The Routledge Encyclopedia of Indian Writing in English written by Manju Jaidka and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-09-29 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, Indian writing in English is a fi eld of study that cannot be overlooked. Whereas at the turn of the 20th century, writers from India who chose to write in English were either unheeded or underrated, with time the literary world has been forced to recognize and accept their contribution to the corpus of world literatures in English. Showcasing the burgeoning field of Indian English writing, this encyclopedia documents the poets, novelists, essayists, and dramatists of Indian origin since the pre-independence era and their dedicated works. Written by internationally recognized scholars, this comprehensive reference book explores the history and development of Indian writers, their major contributions, and the critical reception accorded to them. The Routledge Encyclopedia of Indian Writing in English will be a valuable resource to students, teachers, and academics navigating the vast area of contemporary world literature.
Download or read book Lying on the Postcolonial Couch written by Rukmini Bhaya Nair and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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