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Hardbound. Condition: As New. New. Contents Preface. 1. The financial expert a study of comic overtones/R.A. Singh. 2. Short stories of R.K. Narayan an evaluation/Kapileswar Parija. 3. The true voice of endurance a study of Savitri in R.K. Naranayan's The Dark Room/R.K. Gupta. 4. Old wine in new bottles traditionalism in R.K. Narayan's novels/S.B. Tiwari. 5. My dateless diary experiences in a distant land/Alka Saxena. 6. Marital Bliss desolation and mystic ecstasy in The English Teacher/Dipika Sahai. 7. R.K. Narayan's Mahatma Gandhi in Waiting for the Mahatma/Gurugopal Mukherjee. 8. R.K. Narayan Emancipation of women and the social reality a study/Subhashini Sinha. 9. R.K. Narayan's modern heroines and the Dilemma of Men/Jaya Prasad. 10. Wife in R.K. Narayan's The Dark Room a portrait/Neeraj Kumar. 11. Dr. R.K. Narayan's portrayal of British characters/R.B. Singh. 12. The woman question a study of the evolution of woman character in the novels of R.K. Narayan/Vandana Datta. 13. Man woman relationship as mirrored in Narayan's Gandmother's Tale/Sonal K. Mehta. 14. Regional consciousness in the novels of R.K. Narayan/Sadhana Chaturvedi. 15. Dr R.K. Narayan's novel A mix of myth and reality/S.C. Sharma and Birendra Kumar. 16. The Bachelor of Arts regional ambience universal appeal/C.L. Khatri. 17. Malgudi the heart land of Narayan's novels/R.A. Singh. 18. The world of Nagaraj an appraisal/S.K. Arora. 19. Treatment of love and marriage in R.K. Narayan's novels/Udayan Mukherjee. 20. Prose style of R.K. Narayan/M.P. Singh. Bibliography. This comprehensive study of R.K. Narayan's fiction is an endeavour honoris causa. By honouring the great fictionist we honour ourselves. The more we talk about him the fuller is our find of artistic skill and subterranean meaning. It is ever expanding ever rewarding and ever satisfying our inquisitive aspirations. His contribution to Indian literature is purely indigenous. The vast corpus of his writings is a testimony to his Indian sensibility deeply anchored in age old traditions and still responsive to current compulsive influences. Moreover Narayan's India has an essential monumental foundation and is not just an exhibit for foreigner's consumption. There fiction is fact art coated fact appearing as delectable novels and short stories. The middle class man's manners and morals joys and sorrows social incongruities domestics bliss and blisters and little ironies of life are the stuff his comedies are made of and they are the issues addressed to in this anthology. The present book is an anthology of contemporary criticism on his novels by perceptive academic critics belonging to different universities of India. It includes general introduction to his life and works a paper on My Dateless Diary ten synoptic research papers on his themes style and art nine comprehensive papers on his individual novels. While the volume offers a spectrum of critical views on the novels and indepth analysis of his short stories of R.K. Narayan it adds immensely to our awareness of the Indian literature and culture. 216 pp. Seller Inventory # 62854
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Contents Preface to the English edition Introduction 1 Factors in the social life of man II Culture 2 The role of culture 3 The contribution of biology factors 4 The influence of geographical environment III Human nature 5 Heredity and personality 6 Group and personality 7 Culture and personality 8 Personality disorganization IV Collective behaviour 9 Group life 10 Suggestibility crowds and publics 11 Status social classed 12 Co-operation competition and conflict 13 Accommodation and assimilation V Communities 14 Human ecology 15 The distribution of population 16 The growth of population 17 Characteristics of communities VI Social institutions 18 The organization of society 19 Economic institutions 20 Governmental institutions 21 Religious institutions 22 The family 23 The interrelationship of institutions VII Social change 24 The growth of culture 25 Obstacles to social change 26 The social effects of inventions 27 Social disorganization 28 The adjustment of man and culture Appendix Topics for further discussion and studySociology is a new discipline which has been developed in the western world in the modern form This book deals with all the development in the field of sociology in a historical context This book is useful for sociologists researchers and social reformers 868 pp. Seller Inventory # 99497
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