• ISBN13: 9788171566327
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: N/A
• Publication Date: January 1, 2000
• Pages: 672
• Original Price: INR 1125.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 500 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): General

Study of literature is the study of man’s struggles and aspirations, which in the twentieth century context have come to assume across the world a striking similarity in both form and content, irrespective of the disparate geographical, political, social and cultural situations. The present Volume of Twentieth Century Literature in English examines a wide selection of writers from different parts of the world — England, America and ‘the Commonwealth’ — to substantiate and scrutinize this contention. Comprising detailed critiques of modern trends/movements like Science Fiction and Feminism, broad-based critical analyses of Commonwealth Literary Studies and Women in Literature, the Volume also includes in-depth exploration of the works of Thomas Hardy, Virginia Woolf, John Osborne, Henry Miller, Henry David Thoreau, Nissim Ezekiel, Krishna Srinivas, Mulk Raj Anand, R.K. Narayan, and Bhabani Bhattacharya. Incorporating original studies of twentieth century literature in English from hitherto unexplored perspectives, the Volume facilitates a thorough re-evaluation of modern literature in English.

Dr. Manmohan K. Bhatnagar is Professor, Department of English, M.D. University, Rohtak (Haryana), India. A distinguished scholar and a veteran teacher of more than two decades’ standing, he has been Chairman, Department of English, M.D. University, Rohtak and also Chairman, State Inter-University Common Syllabi Committee in English of Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra and M.D. University, Rohtak. Having been selected for the prestigious Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellowship, Professor Bhatnagar has been a U.G.C.-empanelled Resource Person and part of the Guest Faculty at a number of U.G.C.-sponsored Refresher Courses for College Lecturers. He has also chaired individual sessions at National Seminars. He has been a U.G.C. Fellow at Panjab University, Chandigarh and a U.G.C. Research Associate at University of Poona, Poona. Currently, he is engaged in working as Principal Investigator on a U.G.C. Major Project on Indian English Fiction. Professor Bhatnagar’s publications include, besides a number of research articles in prestigious journals in India and abroad, Political Consciousness in Indian English Writing, Perspectives and The Novels of Nayantara Sahgal. His areas of interest are: Literary Theory, Comparative Literature, Commonwealth and Indian English Literature and Third World Fiction.

• VOLUME 1

• 1. Twentieth Century Literature in English
• An Overview
• Manmohan K. Bhatnagar
• 2. Postmodernism
• The New Intellectual Perspective
• Qaiser Zoha Alam
• 3. The Early Eliot As Critic : Genesis of a Conceptual Dilemma
• P.K. Rajan
• 4. The Scientifico-Psychological Approach to Shakespeare
• Sunil Kumar Sarker
• 5. Hamlet’s Existential Neurosis
• Sunil Kumar Sarker
• 6. “The Mourning Mother” : A Fresh Look at Hardy’s Poems
• Rama Kundu
• 7. Mysticism and Eliot’s Four Quartets
• A.N. Dhar
• 8. The Road From Colonus
• A Quest for the Ideal of Integrated Personality
• Najma Mahmood
• 9. E.M. Forster : In Search of A Golden Mean
• D.K. Chakravorty
• 10. Myth as Structural Principle in James Joyce’s Portrait
• Indrani Haldar
• 11. The Waves : A Poetical Novel in Search for the Mysteries of the Self
• Najma Mahmood
• 12. Isolation and Community in Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited
• Shelley Walia
• 13. The Playwright as a thinker
• A study of George Bernard Shaw
• Shyam S. Agarwalla
• 14. Communication through Silences and Pauses in Harold Pinter’s Plays
• Sanjay Kumar
• 15. Parents and Grandparents in Scott Fitzgerald
• Attia Abid
• 16. The Chosen People in the Promised Land : The Allegorical Structure of The Grapes of Wrath
• P. Balaswamy
• 17. The Conflict between Tradition and Modernity in The Lion and the Jewel
• Basavaraj S. Naikar
• 18. Novel as Political Chronicle
• A study of Manohar Malgonkar’s A Bend in the Ganges
• Manmohan K. Bhatnagar
• 19. “How to Stem the Rot?
• Nayantara Sahgal’s Prescription for Social Change”
• Manmohan K. Bhatnagar
• 20. C.J. Koch’s Feminine Perspective
• F.A. Inamdar
• 21. Australian Short Story and Frank Moorhouse : A Retrospective
• Pradeep Trikha

• VOLUME 2

• 1. A Dome of Multiple Pleasures
• Twentieth Century Literature in English
• Manmohan K. Bhatnagar
• 2. Keats and Eliot: Some Implications of Modernism
• V.M. Madge
• 3. Towards Postmodernism: A Critical View of British Poetry Since 1950
• Rangarao Bhongle
• 4. The Family Reunion : The Greek Furies in an English Country House
• Sudeshna Chakraborti
• 5. The Aesthetic World of T.S. Eliot in Choruses From The Rock
• Mohit Chakrabarti
• 6. T.S. Eliot’s The Murder in the Cathedral : ‘Action Suffering Formula’ and Vedic Pretext
• Surekha Dangwal
• 7. Recurrent Symbols and Images in T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets and The Family Reunion
• (Mrs.) Sumitra Kukreti
• 8. The Missing Link : Stephen Hero and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
• Amitabha Sinha
• 9. Paul Mark Scott
• The Man and the Writer
• Veeresh Badiger
• 10. Graham Greene : The Novelist
• A Gitique
• Shyam S. Agarwalla
• 11. The Geo-Spiritual Setting in the Novels of Graham Greene
• Veena Kumar
• 12. Graham Greene’s Monsignor Quixote : A Text Within a Text
• Rama Kundu
• 13. The Novel of Literary Interpretation
• Amitabha Sinha
• 14. Hopkins and the Concept of Organic Form
• A.H. Tak
• 15. Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire as a Domestic Tragedy
• K. Balachandran
• 16. Imagery and Symbols in The Glass Menagerie
• Iqbal Hasan
• 17. One-liners in Saul Below’s Herzog
• (Mrs.) S. Sivaraman
• 18. Expatriate Experience in Farhana Sheikh’s The Red Box
• F.A. Inamdar
• 19. “Between Expatriation and Assimilation
• A Study of Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine”
• P. Mallikarjuna Rao
• 20. Immigrant Lives : Protagonists in Bharati Mukherjee’s The Tiger’s Daughter and Wife
• F.A. Inamdar
• 21. Three Continents : A Critical Analysis
• F.A. Inamdar
• 22. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
• A View
• (Mrs.) Shakuntla Singla
• 23. Janus-faced Art : A Study of the Coalescing of the Political and the Personal in Indian English Novel
• Manmohan K. Bhatnagar
• 24. Novelist As Visionary
• Some Aspects of Indian English Fiction
• Manmohan K. Bhatnagar
• 25. A Way in the World: V.S. Naipaul’s Panoramic View
• Pradeep Trikha
• 26. Wole Soyinka’s Ake, George Lamming’s In the Castle of My Skin and R.K. Narayan’s Swami and Friends
• A Comparative Study of Childhood Experience
• K.T. Sunitha
• 27. The Image Patterns in The Boys in the Island: The Themes of Illusion and Reality and the Colonial Perspectives
• F.A. Inamdar & Yasmin Shaikh

• VOLUME 3

• 1. Literature in the Modern Context
• A Perspective
• Manmohan K. Bhatnagar
• 2. Thomas Hardy’s
• The Man and the Poet
• Mallikarjun Pishe (Patil)
• 3. Science in Fiction
• A Synoptic Overview
• R.N. Sarkar
• 4. Feminism in World Thought with Special Reference to Virginia Woolf
• Najma Mahmood
• 5. John Osborne’s Look Back In Anger
• A Clarion Protest
• Mrs. Ponni Balachandran
• 6. The Impact of Indian Thought on Henry Miller
• Ranganath Nandyal
• 7. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers : An American Travelogue
• Basavaraj S. Naikar
• 8. Commonwealth Literature Studies : A Look Across the Field
• Qaiser Zoha Alam
• 9. Krishna Srinivas : The Poet of Inner Aspiration
• R.K. Singh
• 10. The Company Nissim Ezekiel Keeps
• K. Balachandran
• 11. MULK RAJ ANAND'S Private Life of an Indian Prince : An Appraisal
• C.J. George
• 12. “The Achievement of R.K. Narayan
• A Perspective on his Novels”
• Shyam S. Agarwalla
• 13. The Women in India and the West
• A Perspective from fiction in English
• S.N. Prasad
• 14. The Sociology of Faith
• A Perspective from Indian English Literature
• Manmohan K. Bhatnagar