• ISBN13: 9788171566310
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: N/A
• Publication Date: January 1, 2000
• Pages: 224
• Original Price: INR 375.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 130 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): General

Twentieth Century marks a watershed in human history, altering significantly the social, moral, psychological and spiritual dimensions of life. Reflecting these changes truthfully, literature in English written in disparate segments of the globe — England, America and the Commonwealth — comes to have a significant convergence of concerns and a not-too-divergent choice of artistic strategies. The present Volume of Twentieth Century Literature in English comprises original research articles, laying bare hitherto unexplored dimensions of the literature of the age along these lines. Prefaced by incisive insights into theoretical aspects, viz., the modern literary scenario, modernism and post-modernism, the Volume includes comprehensive critiques of the works of T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, Paul Mark Scott, Graham Greene, Anthony Burgess, Tennesse Williams, Saul Bellow, Farhana Sheikh, Bharati Mukherjee, Ruth Prawer Jhabwala, Bhabani Bhattacharya, Manohar Malgonkar, Nayantara Sahgal, V.S. Naipaul, R.K. Narayan, Wole Soyinka, George Lamming and Christopher J. Koch. Incorporating insightful analysis of works — old and new — often from a comparative perspective, involving scrutiny of cliched responses, the present Volume affords a view of the latest research in the field.

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. 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