• ISBN13: 9788171566303
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: Atlantic
• Publication Date: January 1, 2000
• Pages: 224
• Original Price: INR 375.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 230 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): General

The present anthology of critical essays on Twentieth Century English Literature seeks to put together the body of writing — criticism, poetry, fiction, short-story, — in England, America, Australia, Africa and India in the present age, to discover how, despite its seeming divergence and dissimilarities, it falls into a broad pattern with regard to the choice of themes and formal strategies. The essays included are theoretical, comparative and exigetical, expounding movements like Modernism and Post-Modernism; critical perspectives like the Scientifico-Psychological Approach and its practical application, and critiques of T.S. Eliot, Thomas Hardy, E.M. Forster, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Evelyn Waugh, G.B. Shaw, Harold Pinter, Scott Fitzgerald, John Steinbeck, Wole Soyinka, Manohar Malgonkar, Nayantara Sahgal, C.J. Koch and Frank Moorhouse. The anthology reveals ‘the family resemblance’ in twentieth century English literature irrespective of geographic and cultural barriers, reinforcing the view that in the ‘global village’ that the world has become, literature in English all over the world in the modern context has come to assume the form of a community-discourse.

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.

• 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