• ISBN13: 9788126902248
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: Atlantic
• Publication Date: June 21, 2003
• Pages: 216
• Original Price: INR 395.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 230 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): General

A unique characteristic of a canonical text is that it is amenable to multiple interpretations and every age discovers a new meaning in it and a new significance for its own time. The insightful essays that constitute this volume cover a broad spectrum of English literature from Pope to Pinter through Wordsworth, Coleridge, Jane Austen, Dickens, Browning, George Eliot, the Pre-Raphaelites, Swinburne, Wilde, Conrad, Lawrence, Eliot, Spender, Golding, et al. By intelligently using the available scholarship in the field and by using the latest critical tools the scholars have shed new light on old authors and thus have brought the past into a dynamic relationship with the present, modifying the English literary tradition in the process. If it is interesting to see how Coleridge, the greatest exponent of the romantic theory of Imagination, combines reason and imagination in some of his poems, it is no less fascinating to discover post-modern elements in Swinburne; nor is it less intriguing to know how Wilde’s love for smart phrases and ambiguous expressions led to profound misunderstanding of his intentions, for example. While the students of English literature will find this book extremely useful the common readers also will find it excitingly interesting.

Mohit K. Ray, a full Professor since 1982, is one of the senior-most 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, New Literatures, Canonical Literature, Comparative Poetics and Translation Studies. Professor Ray has attended and chaired sessions as an invited participant in many international conferences, seminars, and colloquia held in different parts of the globe—England, France, Austria, Finland, Estonia, America, Canada, Japan, Hong Kong, etc. Professor Ray has studied several languages including Latin, Sanskrit, Arabic, French, German. He has edited several anthologies of critical studies, and edits two research journals. Professor Ray is a distinguished member of many international bodies including Association International de Littérature Comparée, Paris, and Association International des Critiques Littéraires, Paris.

• 1. Pope’s Horace: Classicism in Satire Revisited –Krishnan Unni P
• 2. A Critical Study of Nature Poetry of Wordsworth –D.K. Singh
• 3. Fusion of Imagination and Reason in Coleridge’s Poetry: A Critical Analysis 17–Meenakshi Raman
• 4. The Literary Contour and Context of Jane Austen –Kumar Chandradeep
• 5. Incompetent Parents in Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield –Sunita Nasker
• 6. Hard Times: Dickens’ Critique of the Utilitarian Theory of Education and its Relevance –J. Raju Antony
• 7. Nature Imagery in Browning –Dilip D. Bhatt
• 8. Adam Bede: A Thematic Study –Mrinal Kanti Chattopadhyay
• 9. The Pre-Raphaelite Movement in English Poetry –Rahatullah Khan
• 10. “A Forsaken Garden” Revisited –M.S. Rao
• 11. Deconstructing Critical Vocabulary –Sukriti Ghosal
• 12. Under Western Eyes: Conrad’s Political Vision –C.L. Khatri
• 13. Structure of Words in Lawrence’s Major Novels –Prakash Chandra Pradhan
• 14. Voyage Within: Quest for Integration with the Cosmos in D.H. Lawrence’s Poetry –S.P. Singha
• 15. T.S. Eliot: A Classicist in Criticism –Shailendra Kumar Mukul
• 16. The Waste Land: A Linguistic Manifestation of Modernism –Saryug Yadav
• 17. Social Consciousness in the Early Poetry of Stephen Spender –Uday Shankar Ojha
• 18. William Golding’s Pincher Martin and the Sea –Pralhad A. KulKarni
• 19. Power Discourse in Pinter –ChittAranjan Misra
• 20. Nature Alias Ecology as Topos of English Literature: A Cursory Study in Outlines –Manyclal Bhanja