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Literature Textbooks

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The Performance of Nationalism India, Pakistan, and the Memory of Partition Jisha Menon

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Companion to Comparative Literature, World Literatures, and Comparative Cultural Studies Steven Totosy de Zepetnek & Tutun Mukherjee

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Imagine the patriotic camaraderie of national day parades. How crucial is performance for the sustenance of the nation? The Performance of Nationalism considers the formation of the Indian and Pakistani nation, in the wake of the most violent chapter of its history: the partition of the subcontinent. In the process, Jisha Menon offers a fresh analysis of nationalism from the perspective of performance. Menon recuperates the manifold valences of ‘mimesis’ as aesthetic representation, as the constitution of a community of witnesses, and as the mimetic relationality that underlies the encounter between India and Pakistan.

The particular performances considered here range from Wagah border ceremonies, to the partition theatre of Asghar Wajahat, Kirti Jain, M. K. Raina, and the cinema of Ritwik Ghatak and M. S. Sathyu. By pointing to the tropes of twins, doubles, and doppelgangers that suffuse these performances, this study troubles the idea of two insular, autonomous nation-states of India and Pakistan. In the process, Menon recovers mimetic modes of thinking that unsettle the reified categories of identity politics.

ISBN: 9781107051867

272pp

` 795.00

This volume is intended to address the current situation of scholarship in the discipline of comparative literature and the fields of world literature and comparative cultural studies in a global context. While the discipline of comparative literature in the West appears to be losing ground in its institutional presence, in other parts of the world including Asia and Latin America, as well as in “peripheral” European countries such as Spain, Portugal, Poland, Greece, Macedonia, etc., the discipline is flourishing both in scholarship and in its institutional structure and pedagogical vitality. The field of world literatures is gaining renewed interest in US-American scholarship while the field of comparative cultural studies is a new area of study pursued by scholars who are committed to the intellectual trajectories of comparative literature — minus Eurocentrism and the nation approach — and cultural studies. 36 articles of around 6000 words each are presented in thematic groups in this volume.

ISBN: 9789382993506

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536pp

` 695.00

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy Second Edition Claire McEachern (editor)

This revised and updated Companion acquaints the student reader with the forms, contexts, critical and theatrical lives of the ten plays considered to be Shakespeare’s tragedies. Thirteen essays, written by leading scholars in Britain and North America, address the ways in which Shakespearean tragedy originated, developed and diversified, as well as how it has fared on stage, as text and in criticism. Topics covered include the literary precursors of Shakespeare’s tragedies, cultural backgrounds, subgenres and receptions of the plays. The book examines the four major tragedies and, in addition, Titus Andronicus, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus and Timon of Athens. Essays from the first edition have been fully revised to reflect the most up-to-date scholarship; the bibliography has been extensively updated; and four new chapters have been added, discussing Shakespearean form, Shakespeare and philosophy, Shakespeare’s tragedies in performance, and Shakespeare and religion.

ISBN: 9781107426979

324pp

` 595.00

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Urdu Literature and Journalism Critical Perspectives Shafey Kidwai

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Notwithstanding widespread adulation for the creative dexterity of writers like Meer, Ghalib, Premchand, Manto, Firaq and Shaharyar, Urdu literature has often been viewed as inordinary influenced by emotionalism. Urdu Literature and Journalism, comprising well-focused and cogently-argued essays, works out a new perspective on Urdu literature. The author weaves different strands of thoughts and new theoretical discourses reflected in various genres of literature to produce a kaleidoscopic portrait of contemporary Urdu literature. By analyzing the texts of famous Urdu writers in tautly-rendered poised prose, the book offers an alternative vision of our lived reality.

The book also includes essays on Urdu journalism, tracing its history and development in pre-and post-Partition India. The contribution of Urdu journalism to the freedom struggle of India and its influence on the First War of Independence have been made clear through these essays. However, the contention of the author is to make it clear to the readers that Urdu journalism is more than just ‘protest journalism’ – a term which, he thinks, has been wrongly attached to Urdu periodicals.

ISBN: 9789382993773

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204pp

` 495.00

Quest of a Discipline New Academic Directions for Comparative Literature Rizio Yohannan Raj (editor)

From the days of René Wellek’s ‘Crisis of Comparative Literature’ (1959) through the beginning of the twenty-first century that saw Gayatri Spivak’s provocative Death of a Discipline (2003), Comparative Literature as an academic discipline has endured like no other. This pioneering volume, Quest of a Discipline, offers challenging new directions to this field urging the readers to see the practice of Comparative Literature as a quest. It showcases the multicultural, multilingual India as the most potential site of quest today for the discipline of Comparative Literature.

The deliberations are divided into sections that deal with traditions, manifestoes of survival, the latest methodologies, and perspectives that comparatists from India, China, the Near West, Europe and America have brought into the discipline. Each section is prefaced with a short introduction that locates the interdisciplinary articles within the paradoxical wholeness of Comparative Literature. Challenging and unsettling many basic premises of comparative studies, the essays explore the possibility of redefining the scope of Comparative Literature by forging meaningful interfaces between the following fields: • Translation Studies • Performance studies • Film Studies • Media Studies • Dalit Studies • Women’s Writing • Comparative Poetics • Cartoon Art • Folklore ISBN: 9788175969339

Twentieth Century Classics Reflections on Writers and their Times Rajiva Wijesinha

328pp

` 395.00

Twentieth Century Classics is a collection of essays on 20th-century English society through surveys of leading prose writers of that period.

In this book the author, Rajiva Wijesinha, puts together 51 writers of English literature whose works have the best claim towards the hallmark of ‘classic’ in the 20th century. Each of the writers included in this book is representative of the period in terms of his or her literary concerns and choice of themes and subjects. Initially published in Sri Lanka in the newspaper, The Island, as a weekly column, the essays also contribute much to our understanding of the society they describe, the changes the society experienced and the moral perspectives that governed it. The essays are educational and written in a lucid manner. They can be a reader’s best guide to good literature of the previous century.

ISBN: 9789382264873

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228pp

` 295.00

The Cambridge History of English Romantic Literature James Chandler (editor)

The Romantic period was one of the most creative, intense and turbulent periods of English literature, an age marked by revolution, reaction and reform in politics, and by the invention of imaginative literature in its distinctively modern form. This History presents an engaging account of six decades of literary production around the turn of the nineteenth century. Reflecting the most up-to-date research, the essays are designed both to provide a narrative of Romantic literature, and to offer new and stimulating readings of the key texts. One group of essays addresses the various locations of literary activity - both in England and, as writers developed their interests in travel and foreign cultures, across the world. A second set of essays traces how texts responded to great historical and social change. With a comprehensive bibliography, chronology and index, this volume will be an important resource for research and teaching in the field.

ISBN: 9781107666023

The Cambridge Companion to Modern Indian Culture Vasudha Dalmia & Rashmi Sadana (editors)

794pp

` 750.00

India is changing at a rapid pace as it continues to move from its colonial past to its globalised future. This Companion offers a framework for understanding that change, and how modern cultural forms have emerged out of very different histories and traditions. The book provides accounts of literature, theatre, film, modern and popular art, music, television and food; it also explores in detail social divisions, customs, communications and daily life. In a series of engaging, erudite and occasionally moving essays the contributors, drawn from a variety of disciplines, examine not merely what constitutes modern Indian culture, but just how wide-ranging are the cultures that persist in the regions of India. This volume will help the reader understand the continuities and fissures within Indian culture and some of the conflicts arising from them. Throughout, what comes to the fore is the extraordinary richness and diversity of modern Indian culture.

ISBN: 9781107641037

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326pp

` 395.00

The Cambridge Companion to Creative Writing David Morley & Philip Neilsen (editors)

Creative writing has become a highly professionalised academic discipline, with popular courses and prestigious degree programmes worldwide. This book is a must for all students and teachers of creative writing, indeed for anyone who aspires to be a published writer. It engages with a complex art in an accessible manner, addressing concepts important to the rapidly growing field of creative writing, while maintaining a strong craft emphasis, analysing exemplary models of writing and providing related writing exercises. Written by professional writers and teachers of writing, the chapters deal with specific genres or forms – ranging from the novel to new media – or with significant topics that explore the cutting edge state of creative writing internationally (including creative writing and science, contemporary publishing and new workshop approaches).

ISBN: 9781107630475

The Metaphysics of Text Sukanta Chaudhuri

230pp

` 245.00

The advances of book history and editorial theory remind us that it is vital to look behind the text we read. Sukanta Chaudhuri explores, at a very fundamental level, how texts are constituted and how they work.

He applies insights from many lines of study not brought together so closely before: theories of language, signification and reception alongside bibliography, textual criticism, editorial theory and book history. Blending case studies with general observation and theory, he considers the implications of the physical form of the text; the relation between oral and written language, and between language and other media; the new territory opened up by electronic texts; and special categories like play-books and translations. Drawing on an exceptionally wide range of material, both Western literature and Indian works from Sanskrit aesthetics to the poetry of Rabindranath Tagore, Chaudhuri sets a new agenda for the study of texts.

ISBN: 9781107400337

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238pp

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Studying English Literature A Practical Guide Tory Young

Studying English Literature is a unique guide for undergraduates beginning to study the discipline of literature and those who are thinking of doing so. Unlike books that provide a survey of literary history or non-subject specific manuals that offer rigid guidelines on how to write essays, Studying English Literature invites students to engage with the subject's history and theory whilst at the same time offering information about reading, researching and writing about literature within the context of a university. The book is practical yet not patronizing: for example, whilst the discussion of plagiarism provides clear guidelines on how not to commit this offence, it also considers the difficulties students experience finding their own 'voice' when writing and provokes reflection on the value of originality and the concepts of adaptation, appropriation and intertextuality in literature. Above all, the book prizes the idea of argument rather than insisting upon formulaic essay plans, and gives many ways of finding something to say as you read and when you write, in chapters on Reading, Argument, Essays, Sentences and References.

ISBN: 9780521137546

R. K. Narayan An introduction (Contemporary Indian Writers in English) Mohan G. Ramanan

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176pp

` 195.00

Contemporary Indian Writers in English (CIWE) is a series that presents critical commentaries on some of the best-known names in the genre. With the high visibility of Indian writing in English in academic, critical, pedagogic and reader circles, there is a perceivable demand for lucid yet rigorous introductions to several of its authors and genres.

A pioneer in Indian writing in English, R. K. Narayan’s breath of work, based on the fictitious world of the tiny Malgudi town, offers both the academic-scholar and general reader a variety of ideas about and insights into a small town’s many lives. Narayan’s novels, short fiction, non-fiction and travelogues hover around sweet shop owners, schoolchildren, teachers, family planning propagandists, ghosts, criminals-turned-savants and housewives - the deceptive simplicity of his prose style offering a microcosm of the Indian society, with its caste, class and gender complications. All of the these essential aspects of Narayan’s work come in for sustained attention in this eminently readable introduction by Mohan G. Ramanan. Ramanan posits a genealogical perspective on Narayan’s themes and concerns by locating these in intellectual contexts, such as the role of English in Narayan’s works and Indian Writing in English as a genre.

ISBN: 9789382993537

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214pp

` 295.00

Raja Rao An Introduction (Contemporary Indian Writers in English) Letizia Alterno

Contemporary Indian Writers in English (CIWE) is a series that presents critical commentaries on some of the best-known names in the genre. With the high visibility of Indian Writing in English in academic, critical, pedagogic and reader circles, there is a perceivable demand for lucid yet rigorous introductions to several of its authors and genres.

Raja Rao, along with RK Narayan and Mulk Raj Anand, defined Indian writing in English in the early twentieth century. His works exhibit a deep engagement with psychology, mysticism, spiritualism and philosophy. His narratives become cultural as well as individual chronicles, and very often draw implicitly or explicitly upon various aspects — the freedom movement to Gandhi to myths — of an Indian ethos. Letizia Alterno’s detailed, incisive and eminently readable introduction is a rigorous examination of the diverse, and complex, Raja Rao canon, including some of his lesser known short-fiction.

ISBN: 9788175966277

Vikram Seth An Introduction (Contemporary Indian Writers in English) Rohini Mokashi-Punekar

232pp

` 245.00

Contemporary Indian Writers in English (CIWE) is a series that presents critical commentaries on some of the best-known names in the genre. With the high visibility of Indian Writing in English in academic, critical, pedagogic and reader circles, there is a perceivable demand for lucid yet rigorous introductions to several of its authors and genres.

Vikram Seth is one of the most celebrated authors in Indian Writing in English today. With the complexity and depth of his work and his significant achievements in prose as well as verse, Seth has proved the master of the English language. Seth’s many themes and concerns, from land ceiling in post-Independence India to Western classical music to relationships, all cast in formally perfect prose or poetry, have gained him a formidable reputation as a stylist and a perfectionist. Rohini Mokashi-Punekar’s thorough study works its way through the many forms, themes and styles of Seth’s verse and prose. It pays attention to both form and content, and presents a comprehensive study of Seth’s oeuvre by linking plot, characterization and theme in a densely textured analysis and close reading.

ISBN: 9788175965898

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230pp

` 150.00

Rohinton Mistry An Introduction (Contemporary Indian Writers in English) Nandini Bhautoo-Dewnarain

Contemporary Indian Writers in English (CIWE) is a series that presents critical commentaries on some of the best-known names in the genre. With the high visibility of Indian writing in English in academic, critical, pedagogic and reader circles, there is a perceivable demand for lucid yet rigorous introductions to several of its authors and genres.

Mistry’s fiction covers many themes, from politics to Parsi community life and economic inequality to national ‘events’ such as wars, rigorously examining the impact of historical forces and social events on ‘small’ lives. Nandini Bhautoo-Dewnarain’s study, a schematic introduction to Mistry’s works, looks at the process of marginalization or ‘Othering’ in his fiction. Exploring Mistry’s themes of tradition, ageing and families, Bhautoo-Dewnarain demonstrates how his fiction moves from the local to the universal.

ISBN: 9788175963115

Amitav Ghosh (Contemporary Indian Writers in English) John C. Hawley

134pp

` 150.00

Contemporary Indian Writers in English (CIWE) is a series that presents critical commentaries on some of the best-known names in the genre. With the high visibility of Indian writing in English in academic, critical, pedagogic and reader circles, there is a perceivable demand for lucid yet rigorous introductions to several of its authors and genres.

Amitav Ghosh, a novelist with an extraordinary sense of history and place, is indisputably one of the most important novelists and essayists of our times. In this volume, John Hawley provides a lucid, friendly and thorough introduction to the fiction and essays of Ghosh.

ISBN: 9788175962590

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223pp

` 150.00

Mahesh Dattani (Contemporary Indian Writers in English) Asha Kuthari-Chaudhuri

Contemporary Indian Writers in English (CIWE) is a series that presents critical commentaries on some of the best-known names in the genre. With the high visibility of Indian writing in English in academic, critical, pedagogic and reader circles, there is a perceivable demand for lucid yet rigorous introductions to several of its authors and genres.

Mahesh Dattani is perhaps one of India’s most daring, innovative and important playwrights in English today. He blends conventional themes with some startingly new ones in his work. His plays combine the intimate with the social, the personal and the public, often exploring the boundaries between these realms. In this volume, Asha Kuthari Chaudhuri, explores Dattani‘s central themes - the family, alternate sexualities, other genders, morality and identity - while also examining the dramaturgical innovations in his work.

ISBN: 9788175962606

An Introduction to Research The Rudiments of Literary Research Shirish Chindhade & Ashok Thorat

155pp

` 150.00

An Introduction to Research is a differently written book that tries to explode the myth that all research work is produced with a wry face and has to be read with a wry face. It is meant for students who are already carrying out research or are about to undertake it. It is an attempt to communicate the message that research, though a serious activity, is not, after all, ‘the flower of paradise’ which only angels and supermen can pluck. Every sincere and disciplined student can perform research and complete it satisfactorily, provided certain simple and basic guiding principles are followed.

An Introduction to Research deals with many of the important facts of academic research. Some of the key issues handled in the book: • Status of research in India • Hypothesis formulation • Techniques of writing research papers • Avoiding plagiarism • Quality in research and its sustenance ISBN: 9788175967106

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88pp

` 145.00

Rediscover Shakespeare with Cambridge as we launch our stunning new-look Cambridge Shakespeare series.

Featuring the same excellent page layout, glossing, critical introductions and illustrations, you can now enjoy studying Shakespeare as never before.

Now refreshed and complete, The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to readers worldwide with its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance.

Edited by an expert international team, the series includes all Shakespeare’s plays, sonnets and poems.

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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All’s Well That Ends Well

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Antony and Cleopatra

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As You Like It

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Hamlet

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Julius Caesar

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King Henry VIII

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King Richard II

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Macbeth

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Measure for Measure

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Much Ado About Nothing

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Othello

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Romeo and Juliet

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The Comedy of Errors

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The Merchant of Venice

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The Sonnets

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The Taming of the Shrew

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The Tempest

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The Tragedy of King Lear

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Twelfth Night

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New Cambridge Shakespeare Set (20 books)

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The Cambridge Shakespeare Guide Plots, Characters and Interpretations Emma Smith

Perfect for students and theatregoers, this lively and authoritative guide contains key information on Shakespeare. Covering all of Shakespeare’s dramatic and poetic works in compact, alphabetical form, the book provides plot and character summaries, essential background context, information on major themes and descriptions of performance history.

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The Concise Cambridge History of English Literature George Sampson

Sampson’s Concise History of English Literature was first published in 1941. Basically it was then a summary, in readable form, of the great Cambridge History, with some personal touches by Sampson. The second edition had a substantial new chapter by R. C. Churchill on twentieth-century literature and appeared in 1961. The present edition, prepared by Mr. Churchill, provides a revision of the first thirteen chapters. Three very substantial new chapters are now added which have the effect of making this the only complete and up-to-date survey of world literature in English.

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The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing David Morley

989pp

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This pioneering book introduces students to the practice and art of creative writing and creative reading. It offers a fresh, distinctive and beautifully written synthesis of the discipline. David Morley discusses where creative writing comes from, the various forms and camouflages it has taken, and why we teach and learn the arts of fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction. He looks at creative writing in performance; as public art, as visual art, as e-literature and as an act of community. As a leading poet, critic and award-winning teacher of the subject, Morley finds new engagements for creative writing in the creative academy and within science.

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The Cambridge Introduction to the Short Story in English Adrian Hunter

The short story has become an increasingly important genre since the mid-nineteenth century. Complementing The Cambridge Introduction to the American Short Story, this book examines the development of the short story in Britain and other English-language literatures. It considers issues of form and style alongside - and often as part of - a broader discussion of publishing history and the cultural contexts in which the short story has flourished and continues to flourish. In its structure the book provides a chronological survey of the form, usefully grouping writers to show the development of the genre over time. Starting with Dickens and Kipling, the chapters cover key authors from the past two centuries and up to the present day. The focus on form, literary history, and cultural context, together with the highlighting of the greatest short stories and their authors, make this a stimulating and informative overview for all students of English literature.

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A Short History of English Literature Pramod K. Nayar

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A Short History of English Literature is a comprehensive survey, in chronological fashion, of the major periods, authors and movements from Chaucer to the present. Written for undergraduate and postgraduate students in South Asian universities, this History locates authors, genres and developments within their social, political and historical contexts. Informed by contemporary literary and cultural theory, this account also prepares the student for further explorations in particular genres and periods in English literature.

Key features: • A timeline and background chapters in each section to locate texts and writers in their social and political contexts • Additional information in boxes to draw attention to crucial ‘moments’ in the story of English literature • A revisionist reading of each period from new perspectives including feminism, new historicism and post-colonialism • An up-to-date bibliography and webliography to guide students to further specialized readings and introduce them to indispensable online resources • A detailed index of writers and their writings for easy reference and accessibility ISBN: 9788175966260

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Themes and Conventions of Elizabethan Tragedy M.C. Bradbrook

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INDEX A

I

A Short History of English Literature ............... 14

Indian Women in the House of Fiction ............ 15

Alterno, Letizia .................................................. 8

K

Amitav Ghosh ................................................... 9

Kidwai, Shafey .................................................. 3

An Introduction to Research ........................... 10

Kuthari-Chaudhuri, Asha ................................. 10

B

M

Bhautoo-Dewnarain, Nandini ............................ 9

Mahesh Dattani ............................................... 10

Bradbrook, M.C. .............................................. 15

McEachern, Claire ............................................ 3

C

Menon, Jisha ..................................................... 2

Chanda, Geetanjali Singh ............................... 15

Mokashi-Punekar, Rohini .................................. 8

Chandler, James ............................................... 5

Morley, David .............................................. 6, 13

Chaudhuri, Sukanta .......................................... 6

Mukherjee, Tutun .............................................. 2

Chindhade, Shirish .......................................... 10

N

Civility, Literature & Culture in British India ..................................... 16

Nayar, Pramod K. ............................................ 14

Companion to Comparative Literature, World Literatures, and Comparative Cultural Studies ........................... 2

Neilsen, Philip ................................................... 6

Copley, Antony ................................................ 16

Poplawski, Paul ............................................... 17

D

Q

Dalmia, Vasudha ............................................... 5

Quest of a Discipline ......................................... 4

de Zepetnek, Steven Totosy ............................. 2

R

E

R. K. Narayan ................................................... 7

English Literature in Context ........................... 17

Raj, Rizio Yohannan ......................................... 4

P

Raja Rao ........................................................... 8

G

Ramanan, Mohan G. ......................................... 7

Gay Writers in Search of the Divine ................ 16

Rohinton Mistry ................................................. 9

H

Roy, Anindyo ................................................... 16

Hawley, John C. ................................................ 9

S

Hunter, Adrian ................................................. 14

Sadana, Rashmi ............................................... 5 Sampson, George ........................................... 13 23

Smith, Emma .................................................. 12

The Metaphysics of Text ................................... 6

Studying English Literature ............................... 7

The New Cambridge Shakespeare ................. 11 The Performance of Nationalism ...................... 2

T The Cambridge Companion to Creative Writing ................................................ 6 The Cambridge Companion to Modern Indian Culture ...................................... 5 The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy ................................... 3 The Cambridge History of English Romantic Literature .............................. 5

Themes and Conventions of Elizabethan Tragedy ....................................... 15 Thorat, Ashok .................................................. 10 Twentieth Century Classics ............................... 4

U Urdu Literature and Journalism ......................... 3

V

The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing .............................................. 13

Vikram Seth ...................................................... 8

The Cambridge Introduction to the Short Story in English ............................... 14

W Wijesinha, Rajiva .............................................. 4

The Cambridge Shakespeare Guide .............. 12 The Concise Cambridge History of English Literature ............................ 13

Y Young, Tory ....................................................... 7

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