• ISBN13: 9788171566945
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: N/A
• Publication Date: February 13, 1997
• Pages: 192
• Original Price: INR 295.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: N/A

The book contains well researched articles by scholars from Indian Universities. The articles offer a comprehensive view of what American fiction has been like during the last hundred years or so. American culture, society, family, cities of Blacks and Whites have been variously framed into the narrative art form by a galaxy of talented American novelists : Mark Twain, Henry James, Theodore Dreiser, Faulkner, Hemingway, Saul Bellow, Salinger, Norman Mailer, John Barth, Thomas Pynchon, Ernest J. Gaines, among others. The editor has adopted a chronological approach and the emphasis in articles has fallen upon providing a synoptic view of American fiction rather than giving a historical account of it. The approaches covered here are multi-disciplinary as well as intertextual. The reader, teacher and scholar should find the book full of fresh insights.

Satish K. Gupta (b. 1969) was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in English (1993) by Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapith, Varanasi. He is the author of Kenneth Burke’s Literary Theory (1995) which studies Burke’s theory in the light of the principle of binarism. The book in the words of Sukhbir Singh (Fulbright Visiting Professor of English, University of Chicago) “... is a remarkable example of brilliant scholarship”. Dr. Gupta has also published research papers on literary theory, fiction and poetry in distinguished scholarly journals and anthologies. He has been widely reviewed and has also reviewed many books.
Satish has been a fellow twice at American Studies Research Centre, Hyderabad wherefrom he completed a course on American Civilization. He is a member of several literary bodies, learned societies in India and abroad. Dr. Gupta has also been invited as a Visiting Fellow to the Department of English & Comparative Literature, University of California at Irvine in U.S.A. (1994).
Dr. Gupta’s interests are in addition to literature, in Music and Motion Picture. At the moment he is engaged in a postdoctoral research on post-1950 American Literary Theory.