Indonesian culture has historical roots, institutions, customs, values, and beliefs that many of its people share, but it is also a work in progress that is undergoing particular stresses at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The name Indonesia, meaning Indian Islands, was coined by ...
This is a less well-known story to English readers than the battlefields of France and Belgium, and the focus on the war from the point of view of the Austro-Hungarian and Russian empires makes for very interesting reading. Russia lost more than 2.3 million soldiers in the war; the Austro...
Introduction the body of written works produced in the English language by inhabitants of the British Isles (including Ireland) from the 7th century to the present day. The major literatures written in English outside the British Isles are treated separately under American literature, Australian liter...
The following chapters offer an overview of English literary history, which we have divided in seven parts : the Middle Ages , the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries , the eighteenth century , Romanticism , the Victorian Age , modernism , and postmodernism. As we have emphasised in the general...
literatures' of India, Singapore, the Philippines etc. However, many of these new Englishes are much older in provenance than many linguists have previously recognized. The process of British and American imperial expansion in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries took the English language to many ...
The vocabulary of Telugu language is largely Indo-Aryan and has been influenced by Sanskrit, which is regarded as the mother of the Indian languages. Translation From Sanskrit Most literatures began with translations from Sanskrit. So did Telugu, with Nannayabhatta (1020AD), the adikavi or �...
The English Romance in Time: Transforming Motifs from Geoffrey of Monmouth to the Death of Shakespeare (Oxford Univ. Press, 2004). Lauriola, R. & Demetriou, K. N. Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Sophocles (Brill, 2017). Kalinke, M. E. The Arthur of the North: The Arthurian ...
Indian Writing in English: Structure of Consciousness, Literary History and Critical Theory T he Indian Imagination is an interdisciplinary study in the humanities and a critical discourse on patterns of consciousness. Essentially a work in twentieth-century literature, this book focuses on literary deve...
— The Cholas: administration, village economy and society “Indian Feudalism”. — Agrarian economy and urban settlements. — Trade and commerce. — Society: the status of the Brahman and the new social order. — Condition of women.
to those life-worlds situated at the “margins” of modernity.3Taking Heidegger as his philosophical touchstone, Chakrabarty argues that such a heterotemporal sensibility conceives of time and its range of plural possibilities as neither the “not-yet” of the ripening fruit nor the additively tota...