• ISBN13: 9788126901029
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: Atlantic
• Publication Date: April 21, 2002
• Pages: 208
• Original Price: INR 395.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 210 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): General

The essays included in this volume constitute the first volume of a new series Studies in Literature in English. It is extremely fascinating to see how in different historical and cultural situations literatures produced in different countries assume different shapes notwithstanding their generic similarity in search for identity and search for roots. The spectrum of views offered in the present volume on as different authors as Dryden, Pope, Coleridge, Keats, Bronte, Dickens, Conrad, Eliot, Lawrence, Russell, and Lee Zacharias, Mark Twain, O’Neill, or Brian Moore, Coetzee, Soyinka helps us to have a glimpse of the rich variety of English literature down the ages and across the spaces. Anybody who is interested in English literature as literature, or as a function of Culture Studies, will find this book extremely interesting. Teachers, scholars, and students of English literature will also find the book useful because of the authors’ masterly handling of canonical texts.

Mohit K. Ray, a full Professor since 1982, is one of the seniormost professors in the country. He has published three books and a large number of research papers in scholarly journals in India and abroad, which reflect his wide range of scholarship including Criticism, Comparative Literature, Comparative Poetics and Translation Studies. He has also edited several books. Professor Ray is associated with many international bodies, and has attended and chaired sessions as an invited participant in different parts of the world — England, France, Austria, Finland, Estonia, America, Canada, Japan, Hong Kong, etc. Professor Ray has studied several languages including Latin, Sanskrit, Arabic, French and German, etc. He edits two research journals.

• 1. Dryden’s All for Love and Aesthetics of Adaptation–Rama Kundu
• 2. Sexuality in The Rape of the Lock–Mohit K. Ray
• 3. Aridity and Rain : Coleridge in Perspective–Rama Kundu
• 4. From the Senses to the Soul : A Study of Keats’s Concept of Beauty and Truth–Varghese Dolly
• 5. Wuthering Heights : Soul’s Comedy–P.N. Sinha
• 6. The Search for Identity in Dickens’s Novels–Amar Nath Prasad
• 7. Evil in Heart of Darkness–Prahlad A. Kulkarni
• 8. Masks and Masquerades : Interplay of Voices in Eliot’s ‘Preludes’–Indranil Acharya
• 9. Verse Drama and the Language of Murder–N.V. Raveendran
• 10. The Philosopher as Artist : Bertrand Russell–Basavaraj Naikar
• 11. Strategies of Survival in Pinter’s The Caretaker–M. Murali Ganam
• 12. The Female Experience in Lee Zacharias’s Lessons–K.V. Surendran
• 13. Journey as Motif in Huckleberry Finn–Rama Kundu
• 14. Sex and Property as Means of Tragedy in Desire under the Elms–Basavaraj Naikar
• 15. Perspective on Terrorism : Brian Moore’s Lies of Silence–Madhu Mehrotra
• 16. Brian Moore’s The Emperor of Ice Cream : Some Basic Twentieth-Century Preoccupations–Rama Kundu
• 17. Primitivist Nostalgia and Desire for (S)expression in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace–Anvar Sadhath
• 18. A Dance of the Forests : A Socio-Political Satire–Basavaraj Naikar