this edition positions the play in the socio-cultural context of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. macbeth is analysed here in terms of the changing political scenario that influenced attitudes and perspectives of the time. the reader will find this book useful for its range of per..
virginia woolf's 1925 novel, mrs dalloway, is a landmark in modernist/feminist writing, and this worldview critical edition provides the opportunity to make its reading a complete experience. along with annotated text, it offers a wide range of supporting material so that the student/scholar can si..
This reader introduces six American poets and short Story writers whose works span five centuries from the seventeenth to the twenty-first. The short stories and poems are supplemented with additional readings as well as critical and contextual essays. The critical introductions for the poetry and t..
his anthology presents a selection of extracts from women's lifenarratives dating from late 18th century europe to 19th and early 20th century india, prescribed as part of the women's writing paper. the lifenarratives included are extracts from a vindication of the rights of woman (1792) by mary wol..
The Shadow Lines, which won the Sahitya Akademi Award, is a book that captures the times and events of the permanent rupture that was created by the Partition not only in terms of the division of the sub-continent, but also in regard to the permanent dislocation of the individual psyche that it brou..
the volume includes critical essays by frank kermode, john goode, ross c murfin, aruna sitesh and sikander lal . they cover various aspects of sons and lovers— from the sociological to the psychoanalytical, from the feminist to the structural. a lucid introduction focusing on the significance of son..