This book examines the use of book covers as marketing devices, asking what exactly they communicate to their readers and buyers, and what images they associate with a genre and create about a culture. Focusing on Indian women's writing in English, it combines the study of text with the study of materiality of the book.
This book examines the use of book covers as marketing devices, asking what exactly they communicate to their readers and buyers, and what images they...
This book investigates fiction in English, written within, and published from India since 2000 in the genre of mythology-inspired fiction in doing so it introduces the term Bharati Fantasy . This volume is anchored in notions of the weird and thus some time is spent understanding this term linguistically, historically ( wyrd ) as well as philosophically and most significantly socio-culturally because reception is a key theme to this book s thesis. The book studies the interface of science, Hinduism and itihasa (a term often translated as history ) within mythology-inspired fiction...
This book investigates fiction in English, written within, and published from India since 2000 in the genre of mythology-inspired fiction in doing ...