• ISBN13: 9788126918003
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: Atlantic
• Publication Date: July 25, 2013
• Pages: 448
• Original Price: INR 995.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 630 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Ancient & Classical

Some of the modern critics of myth have stressed that the myth is essentially related to creation. The corpus of myths and rituals with its roots in the oral traditions and folklores has always captivated the writers worldwide who turned to myths and mythology to juxtapose the past and the present in order to depict the predicament of mankind and to probe the mythicality of human existence. The fertile terrain of interdisciplinary scholarship has added to the richness and diversity of oral/traditional genres. Orality as a feature of communication embodies in it both traditional and modern characteristics. Timeless and unanchored, it freely travels from age to age, country to country and genre to genre. In India, we have a powerful oral tradition which still persists in various forms. Studies in Myth, Orality and Folkore in World Literature is an anthology of scholarly critical articles contributed by scholars hailing from different parts of India and United States of America, thereby, establishing the generic similarity of myth, orality and folklore in all literatures of the world across space, time and culture. The contributors—all widely acknowledged scholars—have presented an interesting mosaic of myth, folklore and orality in a lucid and comprehensive way. A good number of the papers examine Rabindranath Tagore’s mythopoeic vision and his use of orality and embedding of it in his narrative and dramatic forms. Some papers critically deal with a cross-section of Indian, British, American, Canadian and African writers who have used myth and folklore in their writings. There are some articles which deal with the regional myths, folklore and oral narratives of India too. This book, it is hoped, will certainly prove to be very fruitful to all the students and researchers who want to be acquainted with the various aspects of myth, folklore and oral discourse.

Vandhana Sharma has been officiating as the Director of the School of Languages and Literature, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University Katra Jammu since 2006. She set up the School of Languages and Literature in Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, launched Postgraduate and Ph.D. programme in English and has been regularly organising various seminars and colloquia in the school. She has attended various conferences, seminars and workshops at national and international levels and has contributed papers to journals published in India and abroad. She constituted the Jammu Chapter of English Language Teachers’ Association of India (ELTAI) and is the coordinator of ELTAI Jammu Chapter. She is also a member of various professional bodies. She has translated a highly acclaimed Dogri play Bawa Jitto written by Padmashree Prof. Ramnath Shastri into English. She has been assigned translation project by Sahitya Akademi for the English translation of Dogri short stories Dudh, Lahu, Jehr written by Prof. Madan Mohan Sharma. Her areas of interest include Post-colonial Literature, Gender Studies, Translation and Indian Writings in English, particularly Indian English Drama.

• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• 1. Myth, Orality and Folklore in World Literature with Special Reference to Tagore
• Indra Nath Choudhuri
• 2. Tagore’s Use of Myth, Orality and Folklore
• Mohit K. Ray
• 3. The Listener in the Tale: Orality, Tradition and Modernity
• Jasbir Jain
• 4. Folk Dance and Rabindranath Tagore
• Mahua Mukherjee
• 5. En-textualizing and Re-contextualizing the Oral Tradition, Myth and Folklore in Tagore’s Dramatic World
• Neeru Tandon
• 6. Overflowing the Boundaries of Form: Legends, Myths and Folktales in the Works of Rabindranath Tagore, Girish Karnad and Amitav Ghosh
• Santosh Gupta
• 7. Myths and Tagore’s The Home and the World
• Sanjoy Saksena
• 8. Glimpses of Bengal in Rabindranath Tagore’s Stories
• Ajay B. Kukade
• 9. Tagore: The Librettist of Orality
• Saikat Banerjee
• 10. Nautanki and Street Theatre: Community Folk Performance Traditions: A Study of Safdar Hashmi’s Select Early Street Plays by Jana Natya Manch
• Samina Khan
• 11. The Heroic Monomyth: A Study of Duggar Folk Hero Bawa Jitto
• Vandhana Sharma
• 12. Dogri Folk Narrative Songs (Lok Gathas): Their Socio-Cultural Context
• Mrinalini Atrey
• 13. The Jatayu Myth in Gujarati Poem “Jayatu”
• Indira N.
• 14. Naturally Supernatural
• The Role of Animals and Nature Spirits in the Myth and Folklore of The Lepchas
• Catherina Moss
• 15. Deification and Divestment: Perspectives on Female Divinization in Mrinal Pande’s Works
• Shashi Khurana
• 16. Revisionist Myth-Making: Acts and Enactments of Feminist Anti-Authoritarianism and Resistance
• K.S. Vaishali
• 17. Tradition of Myth in Chitra Banerjee’s The Mistress of Spices and The Palace of Illusions
• Geetanjali Multani
• 18. Contextualising Myth for Re-Presentation of History and Politics: A Reading of Shashi Tharoor’s The Great Indian Novel
• Prakash Chandra Pradhan
• 19. The Past in the Present: Myth and Folklore in Girish Karnad’s Yayati and Hayavadana
• Geetanjali A. Rana
• 20. Destabilizing Fixities: Intermingling of History, Myth and Realism in Ghasiram Kotwal
• Anita Bhela
• 21. The Stories of R.K. Narayan: A Return to Myth, Orality and Folklore
• Pulakesh Ghosh
• 22. The American Hero’s Passage to India: Geography, Frontier Myths, and Planetary Perspectives
• Alan Johnson
• 23. When N’api Dances Day: Myth, Orality and Process in Pikuni (Blackfeet) Trickster Narratives
• Jay Hansford C. Vest
• 24. W.B. Yeats and Irish Legends: A Reading of The Countess Cathleen
• Rashmi Attri
• 25. Exploding the Myth of Universal Human Nature: A Critique of William Golding’s Fiction
• Ravi Bhushan
• 26. Merging Myth and Contemporary Reality: Ismail Kadare’s Spring Flowers, Spring Frost
• Shahla Gauri
• 27. To Kill a Myth in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mocking- Bird
• K.B.S. Krishna
• 28. Revisiting the Myth of Androgyny in Feminist Writing
• Isha Malhotra
• 29. Myth of a Doomed Woman Artist in Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing and Lady Oracle
• Sonia Khajuria
• 30. Mythical Effects of Calvinism on Canadian Consciousness: A Study of Hugh MacLennan’s Each Man’s Son
• Reena Salaria
• 31. Myth and Orality in Gloria Naylor’s Mama Day and Baileys’ Café
• Jatinder Kaur
• 32. Unveiling the Myth of Harem: A Study of Fatima Mernissi’s Dreams of Trespass
• Rupali Gupta
• 33. Ogun Myth as a Paradox of Creation and Destruction in Wole Soyinka’s A Dance of the Forests
• Vishali Sharma and Vandhana Sharma
• Contributors