Exploring the cultural significance of the braid and sari, this book delves into their roles as essential elements of Indian women's daily lives. The braid, often adorned with flowers or extensions, carries deep aesthetic and spiritual meanings, while the sari, a versatile piece of untailored cloth, has been a staple garment for centuries. Together, they represent the rich textures and narratives woven into the fabric of Indian femininity.
Response to Failure provides a significant contribution to the existing body of literary scholarship on Gerard Manley Hopkins, Francis Thompson, Lionel Johnson, and Dylan Thomas. The author explores the texture of autobiographical experiences of «failure» that inform the poems and the poets' responses within the intellectual, cultural, religious, and political climates of their times. Unique comparative and cross-disciplinary approaches, have been employed, including reader-response interpretation of the poems, as well as gender- and culture-centered theories of literary criticism and culture studies.