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.
