Vikram Seth, an Anthology of Recent Criticism

Vikram Seth, an Anthology of Recent Criticism PDF Author: G. J. V. Prasad
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Languages : en
Pages : 200

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This Collection Of Essays Explores The World Of Vikram Seth With Critical Readings Of His Major Works. Seth'S Position In The Pantheon Of Indian English Writing, His Poetic Craft, His Responses To Contemporary Codes Of Relationships, His Notations As A Postcolonial Writer Living In And Writing About Various Countries, And His Politics Are All Examined Closely By The Scholars Who Have Contributed To This Volume. They Engage With His Works From Various Critical And Ideological Positions, From The Aesthetic To The Postcolonial To The Ecological. The Aim Of The Dozen Chapters In This Collection Is To Open Various Windows Into Seth'S World To Enhance The Reader'S Understanding And Appreciation Of The Work Of This Highly Talented And Most Accessible Writer.

Vikram Seth, an Anthology of Recent Criticism

Vikram Seth, an Anthology of Recent Criticism PDF Author: G. J. V. Prasad
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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Book Description
This Collection Of Essays Explores The World Of Vikram Seth With Critical Readings Of His Major Works. Seth'S Position In The Pantheon Of Indian English Writing, His Poetic Craft, His Responses To Contemporary Codes Of Relationships, His Notations As A Postcolonial Writer Living In And Writing About Various Countries, And His Politics Are All Examined Closely By The Scholars Who Have Contributed To This Volume. They Engage With His Works From Various Critical And Ideological Positions, From The Aesthetic To The Postcolonial To The Ecological. The Aim Of The Dozen Chapters In This Collection Is To Open Various Windows Into Seth'S World To Enhance The Reader'S Understanding And Appreciation Of The Work Of This Highly Talented And Most Accessible Writer.

A Critical Analysis of Vikram Seth's Poetry and Fiction

A Critical Analysis of Vikram Seth's Poetry and Fiction PDF Author: Seemita Mohanty
Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Dist
ISBN: 9788126908318
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 294

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The Book, Through Critical Analysis And Assessment, Tries To Establish Seth As A Powerful And Serious Writer, Who Deserves To Be Taken Seriously, Both By The General Reader And The Discerning Scholar And Researcher. The Analyses Concentrate On His Individual Books And Attempt To Trace The Continuity Of Seth S Thought-Process, Motivation And Attitudes, As Well As The Dimensions Of His Structural Control Over The Medium. It Is A Comprehensive Account Of Seth S Poetry And Fiction Contained Within A Singular Volume. An Attempt Has Also Been Made To Briefly Place Seth As An Indian Writer Of English, In The Context Of The Development Of Indian English Literature, Particularly In The Post-Independence Period.On The Whole, Seth In His Poetry And Fiction, Puts Continuous Emphasis On Love And Relationship, And Explores Their Many Dimensions In A Shifting, Changing And Corroding Background. At The Same Time He Incorporates Together The Complementary Segments Of Life As Available In The Modern World Into A Meaningful Form. His Creative Insight And Creative Achievement Could Be Considered As One Of The Finest In The Post-1980 Indian English Literature. This Book Reflects All These And Much More. It Is Hoped That Students And Teachers Of Indian English Literature Will Find This Book An Extremely Useful Reference Source While The General Readers Who Are Interested In Literature In English Will Find It Intellectually Stimulating.

Vikram Seth’s Poetics of Pastiche

Vikram Seth’s Poetics of Pastiche PDF Author: Mélanie Heydari
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031672291
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 286

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Postliberalization Indian Novels in English

Postliberalization Indian Novels in English PDF Author: Aysha Iqbal Viswamohan
Publisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 0857285645
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 251

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“Postliberalization Indian Novels in English: Politics of Global Reception and Awards” is a critical handbook that focuses on trends in contemporary Indian novels and discusses the global reception of these works. The volume provides a systematic approach to the study of Indian novelists that have not been (with certain exceptions) extensively examined.

Secularism in the Postcolonial Indian Novel

Secularism in the Postcolonial Indian Novel PDF Author: Neelam Srivastava
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113414220X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 433

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This study explores the connections between a secular Indian nation and fiction in English by a number of postcolonial Indian writers of the 1980s and 90s. Examining writers such as Vikram Seth, Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh, Shashi Tharoor, and Rohinton Mistry, with particularly close readings of Midnight‘s Children, A Suitable Boy, The Shadow Lines and The Satanic Verses, Neelam Srivastava investigates different aspects of postcolonial identity within the secular framework of the Anglophone novel. The book traces the breakdown of the Nehruvian secular consensus between 1975 and 2005 through these narratives of postcolonial India. In particular, it examines how these writers use the novel form to re-write colonial and nationalist versions of Indian history, and how they radically reinvent English as a secular language for narrating India. Ultimately, it delineates a common conceptual framework for secularism and cosmopolitanism, by arguing that Indian secularism can be seen as a located, indigenous form of a cosmopolitan identity.

The Déjà-vu and the Authentic

The Déjà-vu and the Authentic PDF Author: Jean-Jacques Chardin
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443839299
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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The correlated concepts of the déjà-vu and the authentic suggest that all cultural productions are per se palimpsests whose construction is the result of such processes as reprise, recycling, and recuperating. Reprise is approached as various forms of citation, reference and intertextuality; recycling is defined as commodification and intellectual impoverishment; while recuperating implies the ideological process that makes reappropriation possible. By covering a wide spectrum of research interests, from literature to music, art and the cinema, the seventeen contributions in English or in French explore the political and ethical implications inherent in the creation of culture.

Another Canon

Another Canon PDF Author: Makarand R. Paranjape
Publisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 1843318040
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 193

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‘Another Canon: Indian Texts and Traditions’ in English traces the development of Indian English literary and textual practice over a period of seven decades, focussing on classic texts which have fallen beyond the scope of the established canon.

Linguistic Foundations of Identity

Linguistic Foundations of Identity PDF Author: Om Prakash
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000218007
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 250

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The collection of chapters in this book brings together researchers working in paradoxes and complexities of cultural identities through uses of language and literature from varied perspectives. This volume is an important step towards achieving the goal of reaching out to many who have been looking at the complexities of identity formation from linguistic, cultural, social and political perspectives. Please note: This title is co-published with Aakar Books, New Delhi. Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Maldives and Sri Lanka.

Chutnefying English

Chutnefying English PDF Author: Rita Kothari
Publisher: Penguin Books India
ISBN: 0143416391
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 275

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Contributed articles."Something has happened to English; and something has happened to Hindi. These two languages, widely spoken across India, need to be understood anew through their 'hybridization' into Hinglish -- a mixture of Hindi and English that has begun to make itself heard everywhere -- from daily conversation to news, films, advertisements and blogs. How did this popular form of urban communication evolve? Is this language the new and trendy idiom of a youthful population no longer competent in either English or Hindi? Or is it an Indianized version of a once-colonial language, claiming its legitimate place alongside India's many bhashas? Chutnefying English: The Phenomenon of Hinglish, the first book on the subject, takes a serious look at this widespread phenomenon of our times which has pervaded every aspect of our daily lives. It addresses the questions that many speakers of both languages ask time and again: should Hinglish be spurned as the bastard offspring of its two parent languages, or welcomed as the natural and legitimate result of their long-term cohabitation? Leading scholars from literature, cultural studies, translation, cinema and new media come together to offer a collection of essays that is refreshingly new in thought and content."--Page 2 of cover.

Adorno and the Architects of Late Style in India

Adorno and the Architects of Late Style in India PDF Author: Tania Roy
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131718534X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 378

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In the postcolonial world, the claim to an emancipated national culture was bound to its aesthetic correlate, the unfolding time and experiments of the twentieth-century novel. Today, the constructs of both novel and a progressivist national project function, in all their closures, within global scales of economic disparity and violent exclusion. What is the fate of a literary canon when it is no longer capable of delineating a future – or otherwise, is bound to reproduce the failures of the past within its own inscriptions? How do we experience our current "globalist" moment, when lived inequities of gender, labour and ethnicity emerge in a text’s inability to speak on time? When does artistic or literary failure become the measure of a work's accomplishment? And what sort of liberation is envisioned by works that refuse the imperatives of "progress" and "independence" – which embrace the appearance of obsolescence by rejecting values of artistic freedom, originality and innovation? These are some of the provocations that arise from T.W. Adorno's idea of late style for our own conjuncture – a properly postcolonial context, in which every conceptual or expressive engagement is articulated through an awareness of eroded national promise. Examining works by Rabindranath Tagore, Mulk Raj Anand, Vikram Seth and the photography of Dayanita Singh, Tania Roy examines the delayed claims of literary and artistic modernity in India through Adorno’s category of late-style. In striking readings of Adorno and his interlocuters, the book extends a poetics of lateness toward a speculative history of the twentieth-century novel in India. Comprised of critically neglected selections from the oeuvres of canonical writers, Adorno and the Architects of Late Style in India proposes that under conditions of advanced capitalism, logics of redundancy overtake the novel’s foundational reference point in the nation to produce altered frames of thought and sensibility – and therein, a reader who might encounter, anew, the figures of an unfulfilled twentieth century.