Rudyard Kipling: Activist and Artist (Crosscurrents/Modern Critiques) - Hardcover

Shahane, Professor Vasant A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0809306220 ISBN 13: 9780809306220

Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press, 1973

In this unique Indian response to Kipling’s writings and view of the Anglo-Indian world, a distinguished Indian scholar points up the influences that colored Kip­ling’s imagination and pervaded his ma­ture writings. In addition, he gives a particularly full examination of the in­tellectual atmosphere of the late-Victorian age and its writers who helped shape Kipling’s mode of expression.

 

Of particular value to English-speaking readers is Professor Shahane’s discussion of Kipling’s idiolect, which is marked by preponderant use of Hindustani words and a peculiar mixture of Hindu syntax and English grammatical structure.

About the Author:

Vasant A. Shahane is Senior Professor of English at Osmania University in Hyderabad, India. He received his Ph.D. de­gree at the University of Leeds, England.

• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Publication date: 1973
• ISBN 10: 0809306220
• ISBN 13: 9780809306220
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176