“This book is the preliminary outcome of a research project at The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad. Its thrust area is literary pedagogy, dealing with the textual canons, critical traditions and theoretical frameworks applied in literary studies. The present volume is an attempt to explore critical discourses on conceptualizations of literature and criticism in the discipline of English literary studies in India and canonical configurations of the predominantly Anglo-American canon of literary studies.
The contributing academics are from different universities who explored questions that reflect upon the literary, directly or tangentially, through the discourses and contexts of the literary, linguistic, reflective and cultural traditions of India.
This volume thus attempts to bring together diverse inquiries, locating and reflecting upon them. Finally, it features a conversation about the humanities in India with D. Venkat Rao, a distinguished academic scholar, whose work focuses on cultural memory and cultural difference.”