Indian English Poetry

Indian English Poetry
Author: Jaydipsinh Dodiya
Publisher: Sarup & Sons
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2000
Genre: Indic poetry (English)
ISBN: 9788176251112

Contributed papers at a writers' workshop held in Calcutta, West Bengal.

Nissim Ezekiel

Nissim Ezekiel
Author: Raj R Rao
Publisher:
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2016-12-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9789385665493

Nissim Ezekiel is regarded as the father of modern Indian English poetry, and the founder of the Bombay school of poetry. In this meticulously researched biography, R. Raj Rao traces the development of Ezekiel's poetry and life against the background of the intellectual, cultural and political climate in India-from the 1930s to the end of the 20th century. The last section of the book deals with Ezekiel's increasing loneliness and his inability to recognize old friends, and finally being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 1998. Drawing on previously unpublished letters, poems and essays, as well as discussions with the poet and interviews with friends and peers, Rao examines the desires and realities of Ezekiel's life. Rao also provides detailed analyses of Ezekiel's poems. Scholarly, exhaustive and provocative, this is the definitive biography of one of India's foremost poets.

Indian Writing

Indian Writing
Author: K. V. Surendran
Publisher: Sarup & Sons
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2000
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9788176251136

Critical Essays on Post-colonial Literature

Critical Essays on Post-colonial Literature
Author: Bijay Kumar Das
Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Dist
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2007
Genre: Authors, Indic
ISBN: 9788126907892

The Present Book Is An Attempt To Analyse Some Of The Outstanding Post-Colonial Writers Like Arundhati Roy (Booker Prize Winner 1997), Vikram Chandra (Commonwealth Prize Winner 1997), Derek Walcott (Nobel Prize Winner), Margaret Atwood (Booker Prize Winner 2000), Jayanta Mahapatra, Dom Moraes, Nissim Ezekiel, Keki N. Daruwalla, Kamala Das, Shiv K. Kumar, Anita Desai, Shashi Deshpande, Ruskin Bond (All Sahitya Akademi Award Winners) In The Light Of Post-Colonial Theory. Apart From Analysing Individual Authors, An Attempt Has Also Been Made To Show The Trends In Post-Colonial Poetry, Indian English Fiction, Orissan Contribution To Post-Colonial Indian English Literature And Above All, Post-Colonial English Studies In India.

Encyclopaedia of Literature in English

Encyclopaedia of Literature in English
Author: M K Bhatnagar
Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Dist
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2001
Genre: English literature
ISBN: 9788171569557

A Compendium Of Literature In English, Written In The United Kingdom, The Continent, America, Australia, New Zealand, Africa, The West Indies, South Asia And Other Countries Of The Commonwealth.Critical Introduction To All Important Authors And Texts In All Essential Details Thematic As Well As Stylistic.Indispensable Historical, Sociological, Cultural, Literary And Critical Information To Facilitate A Comprehensive, Comparative And Dialoguic Discourse.A Ready Compilation Of Texts From Different Literary Streams, Suitable For Comparative Study.An Invaluable Supplement To Conventional Studies Of English, American Or Commonwealth Literature.An Asset Of Incalculable Worth For Students, Teachers, Researchers And Scholars.

Contemporary Indian English Poetry

Contemporary Indian English Poetry
Author: Kanwar Dinesh Singh
Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Dist
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2008
Genre: Indian women poets
ISBN: 9788126908899

The Present Book Is A Detailed Exposition Of The Multiple Dimensions Of Creativity In Men And Women Vis-À-Vis The Difference Of Sexuality And Gender As Mirrored In Their Texts. This Innovative And Perceptive Study Confronts The Essentialist Biodeterministic Standpoint That Men And Women Are Out And Out Different, Dissimilar And Divergent. By Discussing The Texts Of The Post-Independence Men And Women Poets Of India And Drawing Comparisons Between Them, It Asserts That, Despite Certain Biological Differences, Men And Women Are Similar In Many Ways. By Employing Theoretical Approaches Based On Psychoanalysis, Linguistics, Poetics, Reader-Responses And Cultural And Gender Studies, The Book Expounds That Gender Or Sexuality Can Make Some Difference To The Aesthetic But It Cannot Solely Determine The Content. The Social, Cultural And Political Milieu Of The Day Plays A Crucial Role In Deciding The Content And Object Of Writing, Besides Conditioning The Psyche And Thought Process Of The Author, More Than Gender Or Sexual Difference Does. This Study Provides New Insights Into The Varied Aspects Of Man-Woman Relationship, The Nitty-Gritty Of Different Family Relations, The Milieu, Human Correlation With Nature, And Metaphysical Questionings Of Life, Death, God And Human Existence, Besides Analyzing The Influence Of Gender And Sexual Difference On Poetic Craft, Particularly On Language, Style And Technique.It Analyses The Poems Of Over Twelve Major Indian Men And Women Poets And Compares Them In Terms Of Diverse Themes, Diction And Idiom, And With Particular Focus On The Workings Of Gender And Sexual Difference. The Major Poets Discussed Are Nissim Ezekiel, A.K. Ramanujan, Keki N. Daruwalla, Shiv K. Kumar And Jayanta Mahapatra Among Men And Monika Varma, Kamala Das, Gauri Deshpande, Sunita Jain, Suniti Namjoshi, Mamta Kalia And Eunice De Souza Among Women.Since These Authors Are Prescribed In The English Syllabi In The Universities Of India, This Study Will Be Extremely Useful To The Students And Teachers. The General Readers Who Are Interested In Indian Literature In English Will Find It Interesting And Informative.

Indian English Literature

Indian English Literature
Author: Ed. Basavaraj Naikar
Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Dist
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2007
Genre: Indic literature (English)
ISBN: 9788126905935

In Recent Years, The Indian English Literature Has Made Conspicuous Progress In All Its Forms, Mainly In Fiction And Poetry. The Present Anthology Aims At Presenting An In-Depth Study Of Twenty-One Authors Who Are Both Established As Well As Upcoming Writers: Nissim Ezekiel, Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Girish Karnad, R.K. Narayan, Raja Rao, Manohar Malgonkar, Bhabani Bhattacharya, Taslima Nasrin, Salman Rushdie, Anita Desai, Shashi Deshpande, Amitav Ghosh, Vikram Seth, Githa Hariharan, Kavita Daswani, Manju Kapoor, M.N. Roy, Sri. Aurobindo, Mahatma Gandhi, Lohia And Ambedkar. The Articles On Poets Contained In This Anthology Acquaint The Readers With The Fluctuating Scene Of Thematic Concerns And Technical Experimentations In Indian English Poetry. All Other Articles Are Also Unique Of Its Kind, Reflecting The Above-Mentioned Authors Treatment Of Their Chosen Literary Genre.Since Most Of The Authors Included In The Present Volume For Discussion Are Prescribed In The English Syllabus In The Various Indian Universities, It Is Hoped That Both The Teachers And Students Will Find Them Extremely Useful. Even The General Readers Who Are Interested In Literature In English Will Find Them Intellectually Stimulating.

The Poetic Art of Nissim Ezekiel

The Poetic Art of Nissim Ezekiel
Author: Sanjit Mishra
Publisher:
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2001
Genre:
ISBN:

Nissim Ezekiel Is One Of Those Few Men Of Letters Who Become Legends In Their Life-Time. A Playwright Of Credentials, A Critic Of Encyclopaedic Range And An Academician In His Own Rights, Ezekiel Will, However, Be Remembered Primarily As A Poet. His Poetic Odyssey Spanning A Period Of Over Half-A-Century Saw The Publication Of Eight Volumes Including The Akademi Award Winning Title Latter-Day Psalms. His First Book, The Epoch-Making A Time To Change Introduced The Modernist Element In Indian Poetry In English. A Winner Of Several Coveted Laurels Including The Prestigious Padma Shri For His Contribution To Indian Literature In English, Ezekiel Has Become A Phenomenon In The Later Half Of The Twentieth Century.The Present Book Claims To Provide, For The First Time, A Systematic Graph Of Ezekiel S Expanding Poetic Sensibility Taking Into Account The Whole Gamut Of His Poetic Output. Beginning With Significant Biographical Details And Formative Influences, It Formulates Ezekiel S Poetic Creed, Literally A Workshop Criticism To Use T.S. Eliot S Terminology. Worked Out In Three Well-Marked Phases The Romantic, The Realist, The Humanist The Book Discerningly Examines The Stylistic Niceties Of This Versatile Artist. The Concluding Chapter Demonstrates How Cultural Anguish And Anxiety Which Inform His Early Poetry Finally Yield To An Unusual Sense Of Acceptance And Affirmation My Backward Place Is Where I Am. The Post-Colonial Poetry In English Owes Much To Ezekiel For Creative Fecundity, Critical Insight And Astute Craftsmanship. The Present Book Asserts Its Indispensability For Offering A Perceptive Critique Of One Of The Father-Figures Among Contemporary Indian Men Of Letters.