The position of Naipaul as a writer is debatable whether he is colonial or postcolonial.
The colonial perspective on Naipaul's works was covered entirely by critics pertaining to the societies generally known as uncivilized. However, no critic analyzed how the ...
What makes us human? Where is the limit between human and animal? These are questions
that haunt post-Darwinian literature. Covering fiction from Kipling to Kafka, this study offers a historically embedded analysis of anthropological anxiety in the period between the ...
ORACLES AND ODYSSES OF THE CLERGYImages of the Ministry in Western LiteratureWhat should be the
role of the pastor-teacher in the twenty-first century? Shepherd? Rancher? CEO? Impresario? Vigorous discussion and debate are in process right now. Beyond the Biblical documents ...
Do our lives have purpose? Despite the rise of secularism, we are still confronted by
a sense of meaning and direction in the events of history and our own lives - something which is beyond us and not our own ...
The essays collected in Reader of the Purple Sage reflect Ann Ronald’s wide-ranging interests. Here
are highly informative—and deeply informed—critical essays on writers as diverse as Zane Gray, Edward Abbey, and Wallace Stegner, as well as the Tonopah Ladies (a ...
The Latin word fama means 'rumour', 'report', 'tradition', as well as modern English 'fame' or
'renown'. This magisterial and groundbreaking study in the literary and cultural history of rumour and renown, by one of the most influential living critics of ...
Since the sixteenth century, Western literature has produced picaresque novels penned by authors across Europe,
from Alemán, Cervantes, Lesage and Defoe to Cela and Mann. Contemporary authors of neopicaresque are renewing this traditional form to express twenty-first-century concerns. Notwithstanding its ...
An important monograph of relevance to several disciplines, including East-West (Asian) studies, gender studies and
20th century English literature. Also of interest to and written in a manner readily accessible by the general reader. Since China and the West first ...
