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by Satish K. Gupta

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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: 788 grams
BISAC Subject(s): General

About The Book

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.

About The Author

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.

Table of Contents

1. Mark Twain Revisited
N.S. Sahu
2. The Dialectical Structure of Huckleberry Finn: A Critical Analysis
Sheela Rani Khare
3. Henry James : His Theory and Practice of the Novel
Akhilesh K. Tripathy
4. The Portrait of a Lady : Isabel Archer’s American Experience
Vijay Prakash Singh
5. Edith Wharton: The Self
Stella Thangaraj
6. An Indian Coda for an American Quest: Theodore Dreiser’s Trilogy
Angelina Paul
7. The Socio-Historic Vision in William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!
Prem Prakash
8. The Old Man and the Sea: From the Perspective of Vira Rasa of the Natya Sastra
Priyadarshi Patnaik
9. Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea and The Bhagvadgita: Santiago and Arjuna
Satyabrata Das
10. Agnes Smedley’s Daughter of Earth and the Emancipation of Eve
Nibir K. Ghosh
11. A Textual Analysis of the Sexual Obsessions in Saul Bellow’s Later Novels
Tarlochan Singh Anand
12. Paradox in the Novels of Carson McCullers
Satyarth P. Tripathy
13. The Catcher in the Rye : A Religious Interpretation
Elizabeth N. Kurian
14. The Transfiguring Self : Norman Mailer’s An American Dream
Binod K. Singh
15. The America in the 21st Century: A view Through John Barth’s The End of the Road
M. Kannan
16. Doomsday Vision and Hope for Renewal: Walker Percy and the US South
Prabhat K. Mohapatra
17. Narrating the Story: Thomas Pynchon’s Novels
Satish K. Gupta
18. New Images of Black Manhood: A Study of the Novels of Ernest J. Gaines
Asha Viswas
19. Writing Difference: Some Trends in Twentieth Century Women’s Fiction
Varghese John

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