Download or read book The Political Novels of Milan Kundera and O V Vijayan written by C. Gopinathan Pillai and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book Compares The Fiction Of Milan Kundera And O.V. Vijayan In An Illuminating And Original Manner. Both Kundera And Vijayan Are Concerned With Problems Posed By Societies, Exposed To Totalitarianism. Abuse Of Political Power Was Endemic To Both Post-Stalinist Czechoslovakia And Post-Nehruvian India. The Method Of Juxtaposition Adopted By The Author While Analysing The Novels Of Kundera And Vijayan Leads To Interesting New Cross-Cultural Findings.
Download or read book A Study Guide for Milan Kundera s Hitchhiking Game written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on 2016-07-14 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for Milan Kundera's "Hitchhiking Game," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
Download or read book Cultures in Movement written by Martine Raibaud and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-05 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors to this volume encourage a re-thinking of the very notion of culture by examining the experiences, situations and the representations of those who chose – or were forced – to change cultures from the nineteenth century to the present day. Beyond a simple study of migration, forced or otherwise, this collective work also re-examines the model of integration. As recent entrants into new social settings may be perceived as affecting the previously-accepted social equilibrium, mechanisms encouraging or inhibiting population flows are sometimes put in place. From this perspective, “integration” may become less a matter of internal choice than an external obligation imposed by the dominant political power, in which case “integration” may only be a euphemism for cultural uniformity. The strategies of cultural survival developed as a reaction to such a rising tide of cultural uniformity can be seen as necessary points of departure for an ever-growing shared multiculturalism. A long-term voluntary commitment to make cultural boundaries more flexible and allow a more engaged individual participation in the process of defining the self and finding its place within a culture in movement may represent a key element for cultural cohesion in a globalized world.
Download or read book Adityan Radha and Others written by Eṃ Mukundan and published by Sahitya Akademi. This book was released on 2004 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Milan Kundera written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of critical essays about the work of Milan Kundera.
Download or read book Czech Republic written by Vladk̕a Edmondson and published by Oxford, England : CLIO Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most entries of this revised edition are new as so much has been recently published on Czech affairs. All aspects of the country are covered in selective, critical annotations of pre-eminently English-language publications, making this an invaluale reference work for scholars, students and the general reader alike.
Download or read book Makers of Indian English Literature written by C. D. Narasimhaiah and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Comprehensive Study Of The 'Makers' Of Indian English Literature Ranges From The Sporadic But Landmark Voices Of The Nineteenth Century To The Spurting Creativity In The Post-Rushdie, Contemporary Scenario. The Contributors, Unswayed By The Increasing Threat Of Publisher - Media Offensive To Appropriate The Critical Function, Firmly Adhere To The Time-Tested Tradition Of Explorations. They Interrogate Inflated Reputations, Underscore Unnoticed Achievements, And Probe The Mush Contested Inadequacy Of Indian English Poetry And The Paucity Of Indian English Drama. The Literary Discourse Is Largely Focused On Tradition And Avant-Garde, Indigeneous Roots And Western Influences, Colonial And Post-Colonial Perspectives, And Self-Indentity And Heterogeneity (Even Hybridity) In Indian English Writing. The Volume Also Investigates The Problematic Of Using The English Language To Filter And Indian Experience, Especially In Terms Of Departures From Standard English Constructions, Semantic Neologisms, Nativization Of The Language, And Cross-Cultural Significations. It Scrutinizes The Three Alternative Of Transcreation, Etymological Use And Transliteration For Moulding The English Language Into An Indian Cast. Despite An Increasing Number Of 'Unmaker'S Of Indian English In Indian Society (As Argued In The Last Essay), The Book Paradoxically Posits How The Indian English Writing Has Come Alive As A Vibrant, Autonomous Constituent Of Contemporary International English.
Download or read book The Pearson General Knowledge Manual 2011 written by Thorpe Edgar and published by Pearson Education India. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Scandalizing Jesus written by Darren J. N. Middleton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-11-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2005 marks the fiftieth anniversary of Nikos Kazantzakis' The Last Temptation of Christ. Since Kazantzakis ranks as one of the twentieth century's most important European writers, and given that this particular work of his has garnered so much publicity, this collection of essays re-assesses the novel, though not forgetting the movie, in light of one half century's worth of criticism and reception history. Clergy and laity alike have denounced this novel. When it first appeared, the Greek Orthodox Church condemned it, the Vatican placed it on its Index of Forbidden Texts, and conservative-evangelicals around the world protested its allegedly blasphemous portrayal of a human, struggling Messiah who "succumbs" to the devil's final snare while on the Cross: the temptation to happiness. Assuredly, the sentiments surrounding this novel, at least in the first thirty years or so, were very strong. When Martin Scorcese decided in the early 1980s to adapt the novel for the silver screen, even stronger feelings were expressed. Even today his works are seldom studied in Greece, largely because the Greek government is unable or unwilling to anthologize his material for the national curriculum. After fifty years, however, the time seems right to re-examine the novel, the man, and the film, locating Kazantzakis and his work within an important debate about the relationship between religion and art (literary and cinematic). Until now a book-length assessment of Kazantzakis' novel, and the film it inspired, has not appeared. No such volume is planned to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the novel's publication. For those who work in Kazantzakis studies, a focused anthology like this one is missing from library collections. The volume contains original essays by Martin Scorcese, the film critic Peter Chattaway, and Kazantzakis' translator, Peter A. Bien.
Download or read book History fiction Interface in Indian English Novel written by Tej N. Dhar and published by Prestige Publications. This book was released on 1999 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book Studies The Indian English Novelist`S Involvement With History. It Is Based On The Assumption That History-Fiction Connection Is Fascinating As Well As Culturally Significant.The First Two Chapters Discuss Theoretical, Methodological And Historical Issues Related To The History-Fiction Interface. Later Chapters Provide A Detailed Analysis Of The Novels Of M.R.Anand, Nayantara Sahgal, Salman Rushdie, Shashi Tharoor And O.V. Vijayan, To Illustrate The Whole Range Of The Variety In The Novelist`S Use Of History.
Download or read book The Pearson General Knowledge Manual 2012 written by Edgar Thorpe and published by Pearson Education India. This book was released on 2012 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Southern Postcolonialisms written by Sumanyu Satpathy and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2020-11-29 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Southern Postcolonialisms is an anthology of critical essays on new literary representations from the Global South that seeks to re-invent/reorient the ideological, disciplinary, aesthetic, and pedagogical thrust of Postcolonial Studies in accordance with the new and shifting politico-economic realities/transactions between the North and the South, as well as within the Global South, in an era of globalization. Since the emergence of Postcolonial Theory in the 1980s, the shape of the world has changed dramatically. Old Cold War boundaries have shifted in the wake of the collapse of communism, Globalization, on an unprecedented scale, has dramatically changed the meaning of time and space. The rise of the US as a new imperial power has profound implications for the world order. In the South, new emerging markets have challenged the older division of industrial ‘first world’ and non-industrial ‘third world’. In most parts of the world, the academy is struggling to keep up with these developments. One result has been a major transnational turn in the humanities and social sciences. Terms like ‘world history’, ‘globalization’, ‘glocalization’ and ‘transnationalism’ now dominate academic agendas worldwide. These changing circumstances raise far-reaching questions. What does the new emerging world order mean for established models of postcolonial theory? Is postcolonialism as a field of study being overtaken by models of globalization and transnationalism? What implications do the new configurations in the South have for postcolonial theory? This volume, drawn from a major literary conference at Delhi University, provides a set of perspectives on these questions. With a majority of contributions by scholars from the South, these research articles have a dual focus – they revisit older debates on postcolonial theory, while suggesting new perspectives and directions.
Download or read book Pearson General Knowledge Manual 2009 written by Edgar Thorpe and published by Pearson Education India. This book was released on 2008-02 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Updated and Revised Edition of the Most Popular General Knowledge Manual. FEATURES * Up-to-date, comprehensive and all purpose in approach * Includes a set of multiple-choice questions at the end of each section to test your understanding * Based on current trends in various examinations * National and international current affairs included
Download or read book Reference Guide to Short Fiction written by Thomas Riggs and published by Saint James Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 1258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reference Guide to Short Fiction provides study and commentary on the most instrumental writers of short fiction through the 20th century. International in scope, this single scholarly volume includes 779 entries on 377 authors and 402 short stories.
Download or read book Contemporary Authors New Revision written by Daniel Jones and published by Contemporary Authors New Revis. This book was released on 1999-04 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of Contemporary Authors(R) New Revision Series brings you up-to-date information on approximately 250 writers. Editors have scoured dozens of leading journals, magazines, newspapers and online sources in search of the latest news and criticism. Writers appearing in this volume include: Milan Kundera Sedar Leopold Senghor Shel Silverstein
Download or read book The Pearson General Knowledge Manual 2010 New Edition written by Thorpe and published by Pearson Education India. This book was released on 2010 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Updated and Revised Edition of the Most Popular General Knowledge Manual
Download or read book Critical Survey of Short Fiction Henry James Ezekiel Mphahlele written by Charles Edward May and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles more than four hundred authors of short fiction from around the world, presenting biographical and bibliographic information and summaries of major works. Also includes a reference volume with a chronology; a bibliography; lists of major award winners; twenty-nine essays on short-fiction history, theory, and world cultures; and three indexes.
