Red Oleanders A Drama in One Act

Rama Kundu

Peacock

Indian Writing in English

Atlantic

Anita desai, a recipient of many literary awards in india and abroad, and a creative writing teacher at massachusetts institute of technology since 1993, in addition to being a fellow of the royal society of literature in london and honorary fellow of the university of cambridge, has proved herself to be a major indian novelist of the post-seventies india, whose novels epitomize the emerging women's search for self-hood in the indian context. Fire on the mountain (1977), winner of the 1978 national academy of letters award, and generally considered desai's masterpiece, is a beautiful novel, focused on two elderly ladies and one small girl. Nanda kaul retires to a hill station house in her old age, and leads an isolated life there, when her great-granddaughter comes to stay. With the arrival of raka the story takes a new turn, gathers momentum, and unfurls quickly to a symbolic end when the mountain has been set on fire. The atlantic critical study of fire on the mountain, which is primarily meant for the students of english literature of indian universities, is a comprehensive, self-sufficient and in-depth study of the text. The author, a distinguished scholar in the area, has taken special care to combine lucidity and profundity in her treatment of the text. In its eight chapters the present study examines the text from various angles such as the title, themes, characters, images and symbols, narrative technique, and feminist discourse, in addition to providing an 'introduction', a brief 'story-outline', and a detailed 'critical summary' of the entire text in its three parts, along with a 'select bibliography' and sample questions. The book will be immensely useful for students, scholars and teachers in the area.

Antai Desai's Fire on the Mountain: A Comprehensive Self Sufficient and In Depth Study

Literature & Fiction

Studies in Women Writers in English, Vol. 6

Ed. Mohit K. Ray

Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd.

The Atlantic Literary Review, January-March 2007"

<p>A Passage to India, E.M. Forsters masterpiece, which has remained consistently popular and widely studied in India for eight decades, has also emerged as the most controversial of all his works, to have received both enthusiastic applause and corrosive criticism across geographical and cultural frontierssince its first publication till datefor varied reasons. The available corpus of criticism on the novel, quite voluminous and often contrapuntal, can reasonably baffle and intrigue the young students. While keeping in view the need of the general students of our universities the present study aims at a lucid analysis and in-depth study of the book with reference to its various facets. The author who has been teaching the book to university students for nearly three decades has penetrated the text with sensitive insight and scholarly command from the varied angles of the genesis, historical setting, title, themes, structure, characters, narrative technique including symbol, rhythm, language, interterxtual echoes, and imperial and postcolonial discourses, in addition to providing an Introduction, a Story-outline, and a detailed Critical summary of the entire text, along with a select Bibliography and sample questions. The study will be immensely useful to students, scholars and teachers in the area.</p>

E.M. Forster's A Passage to India (The Atlantic Critical Studies)

Atlantic Publishers & Distribu

The Atlantic Literary Review, April-June 2007"

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