The late eighteenth-century world in which Jane Austen lived was one that combined good sense, elegant manners, intelligence and piety with a liberal dash of spirited fun. Small wonder that she felt so at home in it.
History of Indian Literature is a classic work covering the entire gamut of Indian Secular and Religious literature including epic; lyric, dramatic and didactic poetry, as well as Narrative and Scientific prose. It includes not only the large number of works of religious literature-hymns, sacrificial songs, incantations, myths and legends; sermons, Theological treatises; polemical writings, manuals of instruction on ritual and religious discipline but also the lyrical and dramatic works; including the two great epics, the fairy-tales, fables, prose-narratives; the belles-lettres and works on various sciences.
TTC Video Shakespeare: Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies
Shakespeare: Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies introduces the plays of Shakespeare and explains the achievement that makes Shakespeare the leading playwright in Western civilization. The key to that achievement is his abundance, says Professor Saccio not only in the number and length of his plays, but also in the variety of experiences they depict, the multitude of actions and characters they contain, the combination of public and private life they deal with, the richness of feelings they express and can provoke in an audience and in readers, and the fullness of language and suggestion.
Edgar Allan Poe revolutionized literature by inventing the modern detective story and horror genre. He is also known for his haunting poetry, which includes classics like "The Raven". Bloom's How to Write about Edgar Allan Poe offers valuable paper-topic suggestions, clearly outlined strategies on how to write a strong essay, and an insightful introduction by Harold Bloom on writing about Poe. This volume is designed to help students develop their analytical writing skills and critical comprehension of this important author's turbulent life and unforgettable works.
"Fiction imagines for us a stopping point from which life can be seen as intelligible,” asserts Joan Silber in The Art of Time in Fiction. The end point of a story determines its meaning, and one of the main tasks a writer faces is to define the duration of a plot. Silber uses wide-ranging examples from F. Scott Fitzgerald, Chinua Achebe, and Arundhati Roy, among others, to illustrate five key ways in which time unfolds in fiction. In clear-eyed prose, Silber elucidates a tricky but vital aspect of the art of fiction.
