{"product_id":"the-swan-the-eagle-essays-on-indian-english-literature","title":"The Swan \u0026 The Eagle - Essays on Indian English Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor: C D Narasimhaiah\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Vision\/Orient paperbacks\u003cbr\u003eYear: 1999\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003ePages: 295\u003cbr\u003eISBN\/UPC (if available): 8170943388\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Description\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor the discriminating reader, this work is an incomparable critical study of Indian English literature, offering both a qualitative perspective and a measuring rod at a time of great growth in the output of Indian writing in English.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book covers in its compass poetry, autobiography, novel, drama, and criticism.  It turns the spotlight on the 'poetic genius of Toru Dutt and Aurobindo, the imaginative prose of Vivekananda and Jawaharlal Nehru and the three senior novelists - Mulk Raj Anand, R K Narayan and Raja Rao - together with the precise nature of their contribution'.  Author's provocative assessment of some of today's much-publicized Indian novelists, Rushdie, Vikram Seth, Arundhati Roy is forcefully argued.  So, too, his views on contemporary Indian poetry in English - 'so few of these poets have made any difference to the quality of our living'. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor decades now, C D Narasimhaiah has laid the standard for critical study of Indian writing in English, Coolly, soberly, and with detachment from the excitement of the moment, has sought to evaluate the work of India's authors in English. Along with the pioneering writers themselves, CDN, as Professor Narasimhaish is popularly known, has made a signal contribution in establishing Indian English writing, not only as an academic discipline in the universities but also as one of the country's own literatures.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword \/ Preface: to the Second Edition \/ Third Edition \/ Introduction\u003cbr\u003eTowards an Understanding of the Species Called Indian writing in English\u003cbr\u003eTradition and Experiment: The Poets - Sarojini Naidu, Toru Dutt, Arurobindo and After\u003cbr\u003eA Tongue of Flame: The Speeches and Writings of Swami Vivekananda\u003cbr\u003eThe Ambivalence of Jawaharlal Nehru's Scientific Humanism\u003cbr\u003eJawaharlal Nehru and Nirad Chaudhuri as Writers of Autobiography\u003cbr\u003eThe Rise of the Indian Novel\u003cbr\u003eMulk Raj Anand: The Novel of Human Centrality\u003cbr\u003eRK K Narayan: The Comic as a Mode of Study in Maturity\u003cbr\u003eRaja Rao: The Metaphysical Novel - The Serpent and the Rope - and its Significance for our age.\u003cbr\u003eSpurious Reputations: Salman Rushdie, Vikram Seth, Shashi Tharoor and Arundhati Roy\u003cbr\u003eDrama as a Form of Art and Theatre\u003cbr\u003eAn Introduction to Indian Criticism\u003cbr\u003eAurobindo: Inaugurator of Modern Indian Criticism\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The India Club","offers":[{"title":"C D Narasimhaiah \/ Vision\/Orient paperbacks \/ Paperback","offer_id":68153742098800,"sku":"6619","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1041\/5203\/9792\/files\/6619.jpg?v=1793913472","url":"https:\/\/marketcalvexa.shop\/products\/the-swan-the-eagle-essays-on-indian-english-literature","provider":"Alderstone House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}