Language Style And Variation In Contemporary Indian English Literary Texts

Author : Esterino Adami
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000644791

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Language, Style and Variation in Contemporary Indian English Literary Texts by Esterino Adami Pdf

Language, Style and Variation in Contemporary Indian English Literary Texts is a volume which examines the linguistic and stylistic forms of Indian English in new fictional texts to explore the power of language to construct meaning, express identity, and convey ideology. Specifically, this study proposes the elaboration and application of postcolonial stylistics, i.e. an interdisciplinary methodology that uses different disciplines, such as literary linguistics and postcolonial studies as a critical lens to read contemporary Indian authors like Jeet Thayil, Deepa Anappara, Avni Doshi, Tabish Khair, and Megha Majumdar. The linguistic fabric of their fiction is investigated in a series of case studies, observing the stylistic rendition of a wide range of themes and tropes, such as the representation of Otherness, drug discourse, lament and the senses, which cumulatively portray aspects of the current Indian narrative scenario. The book develops ideas growing out of several disciplines to reach a fuller understanding of cultural phenomena in the postcolonial context, and by extension in the social world.

Author : ESTERINO. ADAMI
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1032211156

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Language, Style and Variation in Contemporary Indian English Literature by ESTERINO. ADAMI Pdf

This volume examines the linguistic and stylistic forms of new Indian English fiction to explore the power of language to construct meaning, express identity and convey ideology and benefits from an interdisciplinary methodology to read contemporary Indian authors like Jeet Thayil, Deepa Anappara, Avni Doshi, Tabish Khair and Megha Majumdar

Author : Andreas Sedlatschek
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027290120

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Contemporary Indian English by Andreas Sedlatschek Pdf

Contemporary Indian English: Variation and Change offers the first comprehensive description of Indian English and its emerging regional standard in a corpus-linguistic framework. Drawing on a wealth of authentic spoken and written data from India (including the Kolhapur Corpus and the International Corpus of English), this book explores the dynamics of variation and change in the vocabulary and grammar of contemporary Indian English. The aims are to document the extent of lexical and grammatical nativization at the beginning of the twenty-first century and compare contemporary Indian English to other varieties around the world (for example British and American English). The results are relevant to sociolinguists, variationists and lexicologists seeking to investigate ongoing language change in emerging standard varieties of English. With its strong empirical foundation and its comparative outlook, the book is also of interest to anyone looking for an introduction to the corpus-based description of varieties of English.

Author : Linda Pillière
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031548840

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Style and Sense(s) by Linda Pillière Pdf

Author : Elisabetta Marino,Bootheina Majoul
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527501515

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Precarity in Culture by Elisabetta Marino,Bootheina Majoul Pdf

The present state of research in precarity demands meta-questions and hence we need to probe both philosophy and practice in light of precarity’s different manifestations. The plural perspectives by which this phenomenon can be addressed also suggest potential for further theorization alongside that of Butler and her critics. By inviting scholars and experts from different fields and disciplines, and by applying multiple frameworks, methodological approaches, and critical lenses, this volume seeks to explore the different facets of our precarious world, while providing insights into the challenges of our possible futures.

Author : Clinton Bennett
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000787849

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Islam as Imagined in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century English Literature by Clinton Bennett Pdf

Since medieval times, English literature has often demonized Muslims. The term ‘Islamophobia’ is recent, but the phenomenon is old. This survey of literature focusing on the modern period up to 1914 identifies negative ideas about Islam in novels and plays. Some works are iconic, some more obscure. However, the book highlights writers who challenged stereotypes and tended to see Muslims as equally capable of virtue and vice as Christians and others. The book deals with the role of the imagination in depicting others and how this serves authors’ agendas. The conclusion brings the book’s thesis into dialogue with the debate in the USA today between supporters of multiculturalism and its critics. Anyone interested in how stereotypes are formed, perpetuated and can be challenged will profit from this book. It is aimed at a non-specialist readership.

Author : Alex Donovan Cole
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000797640

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The Politics of Remembrance in the Novels of Günter Grass by Alex Donovan Cole Pdf

This manuscript argues for the importance of Günter Grass as a political thinker in addition to his status as a novelist and public intellectual, capable of forming ethical responses to contemporary issues like neoliberalism and place of the petit bourgeoisie in social life. I define Grass’s trajectory as a thinker through his novels and speeches. Primarily, I draw attention to the role memory plays in Grass’s thought: that his work represented an intellectual and aesthetic response to the role Nazism continued to play in West German politics in the post war era. To Grass, Nazism represented a resurgent threat unaddressed following the end of World War II. Later, Grass amended his concept of memory politics to address neoliberal capitalism, reiterating his radicalism and affirming the need for German society to resist the rise of extreme ideologies.

Author : Carlos Garrido Castellano
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000619881

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Literary Fictions of the Contemporary Art System by Carlos Garrido Castellano Pdf

The main objective of this book is to explain how contemporary literatures in Spanish and Portuguese are dealing with artistic creativity when artmaking is no longer a specialised field of cultural production, but rather an expanded field of socioeconomic interaction, personal and creative self-definition and collective imagination. The project positions the contemporary art novel as the most suitable place to understand how the economisation of cultural labour is affecting writers and artists alike. The authors examined in this book, including José Saramago, Rita Indiana Hernández, María Gainza, Mayra Santos Febres and Ondjaki (amongst others) explore the contradictions of the art market, the dynamics of art education, the multifaceted activity of curators and socially engaged artists in relation to broader debates on the role of culture in the configuration of socioeconomic dynamics. The book maps a new trend within contemporary literature that taps into the visual art system to reassess the role of literature in critical ways.

Author : Bruce Barnhart,Marit Grøtta
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000832136

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Temporal Experiments by Bruce Barnhart,Marit Grøtta Pdf

Temporal Experiments: Seven Ways of Configuring Time in Art and Literature conducts an expansive exploration of different modes of timing. Its seven chapters pursue the question of time as it is embodied in key figures that shape both aesthetic and pragmatic life. Working closely with literary, visual, and musical artworks, the book aims to provoke new ways of engaging with the question of time. It treats artworks as experiments that launch temporal figures, and that test out the possibilities and connections these different figures enable. Thus, the book seizes upon works by artists like Anne Carson, King Tubby, and Raymond Queneau as opportunities for thinking through the valence of both existing and untested temporal configurations. What other modes of shaping time, it asks, might be conjured out of the viewing of an Omer Fast film, the reading of a poem by Baudelaire, or of a novel by Tom McCarthy? In treating artworks as temporal experiments, this book stresses the fact that artworks always experiment with the raw materials of time, fashioning it or refashioning it into novel combinations. This book follows the imperatives of these experiments in order to advance a nuanced understanding of the way time insinuates itself into all aspects of social and intellectual life.

Author : Gauri Shankar Jha
Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Dist
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Indic fiction (English)
ISBN : 8126906227

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Current Perspectives in Indian English Literature by Gauri Shankar Jha Pdf

Indian Writing In English Has Undoubtedly Acquired Its Own Independent Identity; It No More Remains Mere Imitative And Derivative. Its Long Journey From Colonial To Post-Colonial, From Imperial To Democratic And From English To Hinglish Forms A Remarkable Chapter In The History Of World Literature. Tagore Earned The First Recognition And Naipaul Is The Recent Laureate. In Between These Nobel Laureates Came A Number Of Writers Whose Work Earned Worldwide Appreciation.The Present Book Is An Attempt To Present The Different Genres Of Indian Writing In English. It Aims At Tracing Its Distinctive Features, Such As Cultural Alienation, Romanticism, Realism, Naturalism, Modernism Etc. While Nehru Has Furnished The Best English To The Globe, Amitav Ghosh, Shashi Tharoor, Arundhati Roy, Shiv K. Kumar And Dattani Have Stirred The West With Their Great Works. The Works Of These Renowned Literary Figures Have Been Considered Thoroughly And Meticulously In The Present Book.It Is Hoped That While The Student Community Will Find It Easily Accessible, The Teachers Will Also Consider It Exciting Study Material.

Author : Christoph Senft
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004277007

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Contemporary Indian Writing in English between Global Fiction and Transmodern Historiography by Christoph Senft Pdf

Christoph Senft provides a set of re-readings of contemporary Indian narrative texts as decolonial and pluralistic approaches to the past and thus offers a comprehensive overview of the subcontinent’s literary landscape in the 21st century.

Author : Gajendra Kumar
Publisher : Sarup & Sons
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Indic fiction (English)
ISBN : 8176252514

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Indian English Novel by Gajendra Kumar Pdf

Author : Rosemary Marangoly George
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107040007

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Indian English and the Fiction of National Literature by Rosemary Marangoly George Pdf

Tracks the establishment of a national literature in English for independent India over the course of the twentieth century

Author : Shweta Rao Garg,Deepti Gupta
Publisher : Springer
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789811053320

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The English Paradigm in India by Shweta Rao Garg,Deepti Gupta Pdf

This collection pulls together a wide range of perspectives to explore the possibilities and the boundaries of the paradigm of English studies in India. It examines national identity and the legacy of colonialism through a study of comparative and multi ethnic literature, education, English language studies and the role ICT now plays in all of these fields. Contributors look at how the issue of identity can be addressed and understood through food studies, linking food, culture and identity. The volume also considers the timely and very relevant question of gender in Indian society, of the role of the woman, the family and the community in patriarchal contemporary Indian society. Through the lens of literature, culture, gender, politics, this exciting volume pulls together the threads which constitute modern Indian identity.

Author : Dirk Wiemann
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9789042024939

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Genres of Modernity by Dirk Wiemann Pdf

"Genres of Modernity maps the conjunctures of critical theory and literary production in contemporary India. The volume situates a sample of representative novels in the discursive environment of the ongoing critical debate on modernity in India, and offers for the first time a rigorous attempt to hold together the stimulating impulses of postcolonial theory, subaltern studies and the boom of Indian fiction in English." "Combining close readings of literary texts from Salman Rushdie to Kiran Nagarkar with a wide range of philosophical, sociological and historiographic reflections, Genres of Modernity is of interest not only for students of postcolonial literatures but for academics in the fields of Cultural Studies at large."--BOOK JACKET.