The Rhetoric of English India
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: February 15, 1993
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780226779836
Subjects: Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Rhetoric; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Literary Criticism; India; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Anglo-Indian literature; English literature; History and criticism; Indic influences; Indic literature (English)
First sentence: "THIS WAS HOW IT HAPPENED; AND THE TRUTH IS ALSO AN ALLEGORY OF Empire," claims Kipling's narrator, as he opens with grim brevity the quasi tale of 1886, "Naboth."