Bruce King maps uncharted territory,...provides ideas toward a poetics of Indian poetry in English, analyses poets in dialectical sets, summarizes poetic obsessions...King surveys, judges, informs, and provokes.

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'Bruce King maps uncharted territory,...provides ideas toward a poetics of Indian poetry in English, analyses poets in dialectical sets, summarizes poetic obsessions...King surveys, judges, informs, and provokes.' -- Peter Nazareth, World Literature Today '...a significant book...King provides us with a detailed history of publication of poetry in English in India. One aspect to admire...is King's analysis of individual poems.' -- Journal of Indian Writing in English 'When [the book] first appeared, it almost became like a Bible on the subject, the only worthwhile reference tool [to] dip into [for] trivia on poetry written in English by Indians.' -- Biblio
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This edition is a revision of the classic, which has become the standard work on the subject. Five chapters covering the 1990s have been added with an updated chronlogy. These discuss a number of more recent poets, along with one chapter on the late Agha Shadid Ali.
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INTRODUCTION; HISTORY AND PUBLISHING CIRCLES; THE POETS, THEIR READERS AND THE MARKET; TOWARDS A CANON; POETICS AND CRITICISM; EZEKIEL AND HIS INFLUENCE; THE POETS INDIA I: EZEKIEL, RAMANUJAN, PATEL, DARUWALLA, SHIV KUMAR; THE POET'S INDIA II; PEERADINA, RODRIGUES, DE SOUZA, SHETTY, SILGARDO; WOMEN'S VOICES: KAMALA DAS, DE SOUZA, SILGARDO; TWO BILINGUAL EXPERIMENTALISTS: KOLATKAR AND CHITRE; EXPERIMENTALISTS II: MEHTOTRA AND MAHAPATRA; EXILE: RAMANUJAN, SHARAT CHANDRA, KUMAR, NAZARETH, SETH; AND RETURN: PARTHASARATHY AND JUSSAWALLA; PART 2: THE DISAPORA: AGHA SHAHID ALI'S TRICULTURAL NOSTALGIA; PUBLISHING 1987-99; MATURITY: MORAES, PEERADINA, RAMANUJAN, PATEL, SHETTY, MEHROTRA, DARUWALLA, DE SOUZA, ALEXANDER; NEW WOMEN POETS: SHIVDASANI, PATEL, D'SOUZA, SAMBRANI, DHARKER, DIVAKARUNI, BHATT; NEW POETS, STYLES, AND FEELINGS: HOSKOTE, THAYIL, SURENDRAN, NAMBISAN, MERCHANT, RAO, PADHI, KHAIR, PRASAD, RAMAKRISHNAN; CHRONOLOGY OF SIGNIFICANT PUBLICATIONS, JOURNALS AND EVENTS, 1947-99; CHART; I: LIFE AND CAREER DETAILS OF SOME POETS; CHART 2: ANTHOLOGIES, PUBLISHERS AND AWARDS, CHART 3: IMPORTANT ANTHOLOGIZED POEMS; INDEX
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KING, BRUCEllFeaturing Nissim Ezekiel A K Ramanujan Tara Patel Keki Daruwalla Shiv Kumar Saleem Peeradina Santan Rodrigues Eunice de Souza Manohar Shetty Melanie Silgardo Kamala Das Arun Kolatkar Dilip Chitre Sharat Chandra Shiv Kumar H O Nazareth Vikram Seth R Parthasarathy Adil Jussawalla Agha Shahid Ali Dom Moraes Gieve Patel Arvind Krishna Mehrotra Meena Alexander Menka Shivdasani Charmayne D'Souza Mukta Sambrani Imtiaz Dharker Chitra Banerjee Divakurni Sujata Bhatt Ranjit Hoskote C P Surendran Vijay Nambisan Hoshang Merchant R Raj Rao Bibhu Padhi Tabish Khair G J V Prasad E V Ramakrishnan Jeet Thayil Jayanta Mahapatra
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780195671971
Publisert
2005
Utgiver
Vendor
OUP India
Vekt
464 gr
Høyde
214 mm
Bredde
138 mm
Dybde
20 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
428

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Biographical note

KING, BRUCE^l^lFeaturing Nissim Ezekiel A K Ramanujan Tara Patel Keki Daruwalla Shiv Kumar Saleem Peeradina Santan Rodrigues Eunice de Souza Manohar Shetty Melanie Silgardo Kamala Das Arun Kolatkar Dilip Chitre Sharat Chandra Shiv Kumar H O Nazareth Vikram Seth R Parthasarathy Adil Jussawalla Agha Shahid Ali Dom Moraes Gieve Patel Arvind Krishna Mehrotra Meena Alexander Menka Shivdasani Charmayne D'Souza Mukta Sambrani Imtiaz Dharker Chitra Banerjee Divakurni Sujata Bhatt Ranjit Hoskote C P Surendran Vijay Nambisan Hoshang Merchant R Raj Rao Bibhu Padhi Tabish Khair G J V Prasad E V Ramakrishnan Jeet Thayil Jayanta Mahapatra