Reframing the Canon
Anita Singh
FROM CANON TO COVID: TRANSFORMING ENGLISH LITERARY STUDIES IN INDIA—ESSAYS IN HONOUR OF GJV PRASAD by Edited by Angelie Multani, Swati Pal, Nandini Saha, Albeena Shakil and Arjun Ghosh Routledge, UK & USA , 2024, 254 pp., INR ₹ 1295.00
September 2025, volume 49, No 9

Dedicated to GJV Prasad on the occasion of his retirement from the Centre for English Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University in November 2020, honouring his distinguished career as a teacher, researcher, translator, creative writer and literary critic, this volume celebrates his contributions to English literary studies in India.

The collection comprises seventeen chapters in five thematic sections. These chapters engage with a wide range of topics advancing from the study of British Literary traditions to the current state of the discipline encompassing contemporary investigations in language, drama, poetry, fiction, translation, transcreation and pedagogy. The essays are unified by their use of contextual frameworks and interdisciplinary approach.

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