Satisfaction is, perhaps, only an intellectual carries the awesome burden of the world. AU others are just toys, to be tossed about and thrown away. It is a self-destructive analysis that modern intellectuals spin out, and finally meet an end, which invokes little sympathy and raises enormous derision. And there exist relations pas......

  The definition of ‘French Feminism’ relies on a small number of unrepresentative texts by a small number of therorists, Karl Marx, the radical feminists of U.S., and the psychoanalysts, Jacques Lacan and Jacques Derrida were the major influence on “French Feminism.” The present anthology gives detailed notes on the feminist theories of Simon De Beauvior, Helene Cix......

  This book explores that E.M. Forster stands at a crucial point of literary tradition who is both a taker and a giver. He himself is an institution and a school of thought and has caused much of stimulation for the writers of succeeding generation. The area of research and study still remains unexplored, for a great novelist like E.M. Forster does not go by the label of an age and time but ......

  Teaching is a very subtle process.  No innovation—theory or technique—can be effective unless it has been gradually tried out and repeatedly proved.  Moreover, most teachers tend to accept what they feel intuitively certain about, even if they are not trained or exposed to various theories and methodologies. The articles in the book should interest them most. Some of......

            Another collection of my essays, written from time to time and published in different journals. I am greatly delighted to find that my Anthology of Essays is going into the hands of learned scholars and students of English. I have nothing to record here in particular except that these essays are not “loose sally of the mind&r......

            A.K. Ramanujan as a Poet is a comprehensive study of the work of one of the foremost Indian poets writing in English. It discusses the literary background, the range of Ramanujan’s poetry, the social themes in his poetry, the conflict between forces of tradition and modernity, women in his poetry, his philosophy and his style......