| Description |
1 online resource (153 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature Ser |
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Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Language, Style, and Variation in Indian English Literary Texts -- 1.2 Aims of the Book and Case Studies -- 1.3 For a New Methodological Paradigm: Postcolonial Stylistics -- 1.4 Overview of the Book -- 2 Indian English across Texts and Discourses -- 2.1 English in/and India -- 2.2 Indian English(es) and Linguistic/Stylistic Variation -- 2.3 Literary Texts and Contemporary Indian English Authors -- 3 Otherness, Style and Indian English 'Decadent' Fiction |
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3.1 The Language of Otherness in the Postcolonial Indian World -- 3.2 Author, Text, and Context: Jeet Thayil -- 3.3 Otherness and the Construction of Drug Discourse -- 3.4 Of Poets, Saints, and Sinners: Indian English and Postcolonial Heteroglossia -- 4 The Voices of 'Lament' in Indian English Literature -- 4.1 Language, Lament, and Literature -- 4.2 Author, Text and Context: Deepa Anappara -- 4.3 Constructing Empathy, Irony, and Texture -- 4.4 Author, Text, and Context: Avni Doshi -- 4.5 Remembering, Forgetting: Loss, Memory, and Identity -- 5 Languaging the Sense(s) of Indian English Fiction |
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5.1 Representing the Senses in Language and Fiction -- 5.2 Author, Text, and Context: Tabish Khair -- 5.3 The Pragmatics of Senses: Embodiment, Perception, and Suspense -- 5.4 Author, Text, and Context: Megha Majumdar -- 5.5 "You Smell Like Smoke": Language, Sense(s), and Identity -- 6 Conclusions -- 6.1 New Tools and Theories for Indian English in Fictional Texts -- 6.2 Further Research: Other Genres and Research Extensions -- Index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000644777 |
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1000644774 |
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