This anthology assembles sixteen essays on different aspects of modern criticism, by some of the best scholars from six countries and four continents. The essays, variously, examine a range of theoretical perspectives, point up key issues in the area of postcolonial literary studies, or open up new interdisciplinary perspectives for the future of criticism.
Among the critical schools and approaches expounded by the distinguished contributors are Postmodernism, Reader-Response Theory, Postcolonial Theory, Psychoanalytic Criticism, Feminist Criticism and Marxist Criticism. The concluding essays bring the critical debate right up-to-date by suggesting new critical paths for the Internet age.
The contributors included such reputed experts, from India and abroad, as T. Ravichandran, Nouri Gana, Prakash Chandra Pradhan, N. Raveendran, Gangadhar Gadgil, Anthonia Kalu, Mala Pandurang, Subhendu Mund, Dámaso Javier Vicente Blanco, and Virgílio Augusto Fernandes Almeida. This rich and diverse volume will prove an invaluable source of reference and stimulus for further thought, for students and scholars alike.
Christopher Rollason graduated with First Class Honours in English literature from Trinity College, Cambridge (England) in 1975, and obtained his Ph.D. from York University (England) in 1988, with a dissertation on Edgar Allan Poe. From 1980 to 1987 he was a member of the Department of Anglo-American Studies at the Faculty of Letters of Coimbra University (Portugal). He has collaborated in recent years with the Universities of Bath (England) and Bologna (Italy), and, as a guest lecturer, with Kakatiya University (Warangal, AP) and CIEFL (Hyderabad). He is Language Editor for The Atlantic Literary Review, and has contributed articles on Indian Writing in English to several of the anthologies published by Atlantic Publishers and Distributors, New Delhi. He is married and lives in Metz (France).
Rajeshwar Mittapalli is Associate Professor of English at Kakatiya University, Warangal, Andhra Pradesh, India. His published works of criticism include The Novels of Wole Soyinka and Indian Women Novelists and Psychoanalysis. So far he has edited 16 anthologies of literary essays. They include Post-modernism and English Literature, Indian Fiction in English, Studies in Indian Writing in English, Volume 1 & 2, Post-Independence Indian English Fiction, Commonwealth Fiction: Twenty-first Century Readings, Modern American Literature, V.S. Naipaul: Fiction and Travel Writing and IT Revolution, Globalization and the Teaching of English.
Dr. Mittapalli is currently the editor of The Atlantic Literary Review published from New Delhi. Earlier he was the Associate Editor of Kakatiya Journal of English Studies for several years.
He has published 32 articles on Indian, African and American fiction and ELT in such reputed journals as New Quest, ARTSresearch, Indian Literature, The Journal of Indian Writing in English, Commonwealth Quarterly, The Commonwealth Review and Revaluations.
