From the ‘Miller’s Tale’ to King Lear’s roaring sea, a history of flooding in literature

From the ‘Miller’s Tale’ to King Lear’s roaring sea, a history of flooding in literature

[ad_1] Geoffrey Chaucer’s Miller’s Tale is renowned for its salacious storyline of sexual misadventure. Set in 14th-century Oxford, it tells the tale of John the Carpenter, a husband so terrified that another “Noah’s flood” is coming to drown the world that he sleeps in a basket in the attic – freeing his wife to bed … Read more

‘What unites the Kannada world is an admiration for vachana literature’: Writer Srikar Raghavan

‘What unites the Kannada world is an admiration for vachana literature’: Writer Srikar Raghavan

[ad_1] As may be expected, reviews of Rama Bhima Soma: Cultural Investigations into Modern Karnataka have focused on the vast and varied connections between life and literature, and state and society, that the book has aimed to chronicle. Karnataka, the home state of the author, is the playground for the ball game introduced to us … Read more