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bjupress.com | 800.845.5731 British Literature (3rd Edition) literature that establishes a A comprehensive overview of British This course discuss- framework of the development of literature. while presenting the es fi ve key time periods of British literature, be able to understand. Most material on a level the students will problem of the human con- importantly, this course explores the llenges students to under- dition as it occurs in literature and cha various solutions to the stand that problem. They will consider ff er from biblical solutions. problem and how those solutions di edition, student edition, Parts and pieces include the teacher key. assessments, and an assessments answer DHURSODQHV F \ Anita Desai (b. 1937) Despite constant displacement and the demands- The technological revolutions of the twentieth century of family life, Desai continued writing, always in Eng brought with them a profound sense of dislocation. lish, publishing her first novel in 1963. In 1977 she As mass media and rapid transit made the globe an published Fire on the Mountain, a stylized, imagistic increasingly smaller place, languages and novel that brought her critical attention. She THETHE DIARYIARI cultures disappeared, leaving behind followed this achievement in 1978 with the - Games at Twilight. THETHTHEHE PLAGUPLAPLAG E OF 1665 a sense of alienation and loss. Per short-story collection JunJunene 10th10th. InIn the eeven ev ningi g hohomhome to supper;ppper;p and there,re,, to my gr eat trouble, trotrouble haps one of the best novelists of hear thatthatt the hehe plaguelagueague isi ccome iinto ththe City (thoughthoughug it hathh theseesee three or fourour Desai’s growing literary stature led to weekss sincincencece itss beginningbeginninbeginbeginne beeneeeenen whollywhowholwh outu offfthe thet Cit y);y) . TToo ththe offi ffice to t this modern dislocation is the fifinish myy letletterste s andaan tthen home to bed,d beingingg trtrouttroubled at thee sicsi kness,ness, and mym a professorship in the United States, headheh d filledf ledd also witwiwith oother businessss eenough, andan particularlyularly hhow toto putu mym - thingss andndd ese tatetatate in orderordeordrder, in casee it shouldo please Godod to callcacal me away, which Indian writer Anita Desai. where she moved in 1987. The follow God dispdisposedisposeoseo of too his glorglo y!y Desai was born Anita shed an homage to Augususust 8th. ..Th TheTThhe streetss mightyhty emptyemptemp alll thehe way,y, now even ini LondonLondon,ondon,ndon,ndododon,ddonn ing year she publi whicwhich isis a saad sight.sighight . AndpoorWiAAnd poor WWill,lltht that used sed toto sell us ale at the Hallll- Baumgartner’s “BE YE MEN OF VALOR” door,oor hish sws wifwi e andannd ththreet childrenhildreildren dieddied, all, I thinknk, inn a day.ay.y. So home throthrough Mazumdar in Mussoorie, her German heritage in with Introduction by David Cannadine theh Cittyy agaigaiain, wishwwishingwishhingg I may have taketa n no ill inn going; bubut I willll go,ggo I ththit nk,nkk - non mormom ree thithitther.ere . Ask Questions: WhatW att detailsdetail in the India, the daughter of a Ben Bombay. Since then she has continued - VISUAL ANALYSIS t, what August 8 entry heelp youou to bebetteettettet r In this work, The Combat - In the early hours of 10 May, the Germans invaded Holland and Bel Augustu t 22nd22n I went away and walked to Greenwich,ich,ch, in myy way seeiseese ng a coff- understand thehe plagueaguea ue and itsit exe tenttenent two forces are in conflict? What 1 - finin withh a dead body therein, dead of the plague, lyl ing in an opopen closeclos be- andnd results? gali engineer and a German to publish a steady stream of critically ac gium, and within four days they had broken through the French de- does the artist, using visual lan fenses at Sedan. On 15 May, Holland surrendered, and Churchill flew guage, convey about the nature longingongingg to Coomemee farmfarm,f whih chh was carried out lastaststt night, anda the parish haveha - of each and about the state of notot apppointedpointeoin anybodyd to buryur it; but onlyy set a watw chh there ddaday andnd night,night mother. Growing up in colo to Paris to confer with the French ntinue,leaders. and It soon that becamethe position clear of that the claimed novels, novellas, and short stories. French resistance would not long co the conflict? thathat nobbody should go thither or comee thence, whichwwhi iss a most cruel thing:thing British troops on the Continent was perilous. At a meeting of the War- thishishi disedisease makingking us more cruel to oonne another t than iff we are dogs.gs. nial India, she became fluent Desai’s mature fiction explores the Cabinet on 18 May, Chamberlain urged the Prime Minister to broad cast to the nation, to indicate “that we were in a tight fix, and that no Septemmberber 3rd3 (Lord’s day)d . Amongmon other stories,ies,s,, one wawasasas very paspa sionn- personal considerations must be allowed to stand in the way of the atate,ate metethoughhoughug t, of a complco aint brought againstnstam a man inn theth towtotown for takingtaking a in English, Hindi, and German. quiet struggles and sense of loss felt by those measures necessary for victory.” chchilchild froom Lo ndon fromf an infectednfected house.. Alderman H ookerookookertoldusookerker told us u it was 2 On the following day, after only three hours in which to compose it, the childd of a veryver able citizen in Gracious Street, a saddler,saddlerddler,dler,e who had buriedd A lifelong lover of books, she wrote caught in the swirling tides of the modern world, Churchill broadcast this speech live, his first as Prime Minister. He- alla the reest off his cchichildren of thehe pplague,ue,e and himsh elf andd wwife now beingb shut - held out the hope that France might continue to resist, warned his lis upu and ini desese pairir oof escapesca ing, didd desidedes re only to save thee lifeife of this little child;childi her first story at age nine. She earned teners that a German assault on Britain might be imminent, and made and so prevaip ledtohaveiledd to have it receivedceivedvededd sst ark-nakedarkark-n intin o thee arms of a friend, who - often between conflicting cultural forces. These dilem plain his resolve “to call forth from our people the last ounce and the brought itt (h( aving put it intotoo newewwfw fresresh clothes) to Greenwich;reenwich;; wheree upon Ask Questions: - HHow doo thee detaidetailssi in a degree in English literature from the Uni last inch of effort of which they are capable.” hearingh thet story, we didd agree it should be permitti ed to beerec rrecerec ivedd and keptkep this entryentrtry aaffect youy differentldifferentently thanthaan mas frequently lead to personal tragedies. For Desai, It seems clear that this broadcast caught the nation’s imagination. An inn the towwn.wn . statisticscs in a reportrep wouwould? thony Eden told Churchill he had never “done anything as good or versity of Delhi in 1957. In 1958 she married Ashvin Evening Standard thought it a speech “of imperishable cultural dislocation produces misunderstanding and as great.” The 1.1 open close:close:ose roofless enclosuenclosure beside a houhouse;hous courtyard,urtyard,ard yard yar resolve.” Even Lord Halifax considered it “worth a lot.” Churchill’s war 2.2 saddleer:e “oneone that mmakes, repairs, or sells equipmentuipment for horhorses”es (AHD) Desai, with whom she had four children and whose of words had begun in earnest. 633 pain, but her fiction also shows how the sufferings of SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL SAMUEL PEPYS 315 career would repeatedly move the family across India. modern life can be borne with fortitude and grace. Making Literature Relevant The student edition relies on age-appropriate language and uses authors and genres that are relevant to the students to main- tain interest. Students are introduced to a wide variety of voices, from male and female authors to postcolonial authors. The selections take them beyond the vast body of English poetry into prose from essays, speeches, diary entries, novels, and other long works. nd gaunt, and spitting out a big gob of betel juice as if to mock their id this once too often: there had been a big party in the house, a party for tthe youngest son, and the celebrations had to be suddenly overed upp and hustled out of the way when the daughter-in-law dis- or thoughht she discovered, that the old man, stretched out from end his stringg bed, had lost his pulse; the party broke up, dissolved, even to a band of mourners, when the old man sat up and the distraught in-law recceived a gob of red spittle right on the hem of her new or- UNIT 2 OBJECTIVES i. After thhat no one much cared if he sat up cross-legged on his bed, nd spittinng, or lay down flat and turned gray as a corpse. Except, of r that pearrl amongst pearls, his son Rakesh. Rakesh wwho brought him his morning tea, not in one of the china which the rest of the family drank, but in the old man’s favorite bler, and sats at the edge of his bed, comfortable and relaxed with the is pajamas dangling out from under his fine lawn night-shirt, and or, rather, read out the morning news to his father. It made no to him thaat his father made no response apart from spitting. It was LITERARY ELEMENTS o, who, onn returning from the clinic in the evening, persuaded the come outt of his room, as bare and desolate as a cell, and take the out in thhe garden, beautifully arranging the pillows and bolsters Analyze examples of the following genres: n in the cornerc of the open veranda.