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| Twentieth
Century Indian English Fiction |
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M.K. Naik |
| ISBN:
81-85753-57-1 |
| Year
of Pub:
2004 |
| Price:
Rs.450.00(hb) |
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The
Book :
This wide-ranging study examines
the emergence and the peaking of the twentieth century Indian
English fiction, including its new bearings and fresh flowering
in the last two decades of the century. It offers both a survey
of the trends and tendencies of this genre during this period
and a critique of some of its major voices. At once incisive
and comprehensive, and laced with telling percep-tions, the
volume epitomizes Professor M.K. Naik's vintage writing on
the Indian English fiction of this period.
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The Author : M.K.
Naik (b. 1926), former Professor and Chairperson of the Department
of English at Karnatak University, Dharwad, currently lives
in Pune (India)/Melbourne (Australia). Apart from A History
of Indian English Literature (1982, currently in its sixth
edition), he has also published studies on the 'Big Three' of
Indian English fiction: Mulk Raj Anand, R.K. Narayan and Raja
Rao. He has edited the Perspective Series, which covers
all the major forms of Indian English literature, and Critical
Essays on Indian Writing in English (1968). He is the author
of five books of light verse under the nom de plume EMKEN.
These include Indian Clerihews, Indian Limericks and Beowulf
and All That: An Unorthodox History of English Literature in
Comic Verse. He has recently co-authored (with Shyamala
A. Narayan) the widely acknowledged volume Indian English
Literature (1980-2000): A Critical Survey (2001). |
Review
: Reveals not only
Naik's wide and keen critical scholarship but innate capacity
for wit even in his critical discourse... volume which no student
or teacher of Indian English Literature can afford to miss. |
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