Thinking of the usefulness and the great popularity of the first eight editions of the book, Twentieth Century Literary Criticism and considering the valuable suggestions received from several quarters, the current ninth edition has been revised and enlarged by adding six new chapters on recent development in literary criticism across the globe. The book now contains 70 chapters in all, organized into four parts.
Six new chapters in Part IV are on post-humanities, Cyborgs, Resistance to Theory, Imitation and Gender Insubordination, Texts and Lumps, and Intercriticality (a term coined by the author).
The theories and the texts have been explained with clarity and precision in a simple language and lucid style. This is an invaluable reference book for anyone interested in the field of literary criticism in the twentieth century and beyond.
Bijay Kumar Das, M.A., Ph.D., D.Litt., formerly a Reader in English at Ravenshaw College, Cuttack, and Professor of English at Burdwan University, Burdwan, is a contributor to The Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century (New York). He has successfully guided 27 Ph.D. scholars and was the Chief Editor of The Indian Journal of English Studies for three years (2007-09). He is the Editor of The Critical Endeavour since 1995. He is also the President of the Researchers’ Association of Odisha which is devoted to the cause of English Studies in India.
He has published more than 200 research papers in national and international journals of repute. He has to his credit more than three dozen of authored/edited reference books. His published books include Critical Essays on Post-Colonial Literature, Twentieth Century Literary Criticism, Interpreting Poetry and Evaluating Criticism, A Handbook of Translation Studies, The Poetry of Jayanta Mahapatra, Form and Meaning in Mahesh Dattani’s Plays, Post-Modern Indian English Literature, Shiv K. Kumar as a Post-Colonial Poet, Revisiting W.B. Yeats’s World and Art, Comparative Literature, Studies in Postcolonial Literature, Ashis Nandy’s Exiled at Home: Theory and Praxis, Critical Essays on Research Methodology, Interdisciplinarity and Indian Literature, Interpreting Poetry and Evaluating Criticism, Perspectives on the Poetry of A.K. Ramanujan, Handbook of Communication Skills and Functional English, and A Reader’s Guide to Ten Twentieth Century Indian Poets. Professor Das is the winner of Professor C.D. Narasimhaiah Memorial Award for 2022.
