Literature, language, and the classroom : essays for Promodini Varma / edited by Sonali Jain, Anubhav Pradhan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Varma, Promodini, honouree.

Jain, Sonali, editor.

Pradhan, Anubhav, editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Study and teaching--India.

English language.

English language--Study and teaching.

English literature--Study and teaching.

India.

English literature--Study and teaching--India.

English literature.

English language--Study and teaching--Foreigh speakers.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

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Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge India, 2022.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Sonali Jain is Associate Professor (English) in Bharati College, University of Delhi. Her doctoral workat Jawaharlal Nehru University(JNU) centredon Vijay Tendulkar and the semiotics of cinema. She was Translator- in-Residence at the University of East Anglia, UK in 2008 and has translated Tendulkar's play Baby into English. She has also edited Strindberg's Miss Julie. Her areas of interest include psychoanalytic theory, film studies and translation. She is trained in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy. She has been painting for many years andher works have been exhibited in a number of group shows. Anubhav Pradhan is Assistant Professor with the Department of Liberal Arts, IIT Bhilai. His research straddles urban history, heritage, planning, and writing as well as colonial cultural contact and the intersections of empire and modernity. He is Deputy Editor of South Asia Research; editor of Articulating Urbanity: Writing the South Asian City (forthcoming, 2022) and co-editor of Kipling and Yeats at 150: Retrospectives/Perspectives (2019). He has taught at Ambedkar University Delhi, South Asian University, Jamia Millia Islamia, and the University of Delhi and has served Primus Books, Delhi as their Senior Marketing Editor. He has also been associated as a researcher with the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies and the Indian Institute for Human Settlements. He reviews frequently for national and international journals and has presented his work in a wide range of conferences all over the world.

Contents:

Introduction: "Towards a Framing of Parts", by Anubhav Pradhan

1. Arthur Conan Doyle and William Butler Yeats: Contemporaries, Strangers, Partners / R.W. Desai

2. Ibsen's Ghost in Forster's <i>The Longest Journey / Sumanyu Satpathy

3. Redefining British Masculinity in <i>Captains Courageous / Chetan

4. Reading Poetry Through Translation: A Note on a Hindi Translation of Shakespeare's Sonnets / Rajiva Verma

5. Teaching in Translation, Teaching Gender and Sexuality / Ruth Vanita

6. Radical Unlearnedness with Proletarian Schooling: Dilemmas of discipline and teaching in D.H. Lawrence's <i>Education of the People and <i>Fantasia of the Unconscious / Divya Saksena

7. Holding Environments: An Enquiry into Institutional Minds / Sonali Jain

8. The Challenges of <i>Skilling the English Language Learner for the Global Market / Anjana Neira Dev and Sameer Chopra

9. Evidence-based decision making in our teaching: why is it important and how do we do it? / Rama Mathew

10. Developments in teaching College English at University of Delhi / Mukti Sanyal

11. Theatre, Feminism, and Society: Notes from a Practitioner / Anuradha Marwah in conversation with Anubhav Pradhan and Sonali Jain

12. Nostalgic possibilities: Planning and heritage in Shahjahanabad / Anubhav Pradhan

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ISBN:

9781000432398

1000432394

9781000432350

1000432351

9781003049777

100304977X

Publisher Number:

40030873121

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