• ISBN13: 9788126930685
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: Atlantic
• Publication Date: June 15, 2020
• Pages: 178
• Original Price: INR 695.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 310 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): General

Comparative English Literature, beginning with a wide-ranging discussion of the theoretical dimensions of the comparative study of literature, its limits and prospects, includes a host of in-depth scholarly articles incorporating inter-genre, inter-authorial, and inter-textual studies from the perspective of comparative studies which constitute an innovative strategy to access recesses of texts hitherto unexplored. The perspective here is taken from other texts, facilitating a fuller appreciation of the texts involved and the artistic intent of the authors. The authors/texts covered in this anthology include Shakespeare and Kalidas; Wordsworth and Yeats; T.S. Eliot and The Gita; John Steinbeck and The Bible; Harold Pinter and Samuel Beckett, Sylvia Fraser, Susanna Moodie, and Yasmine Gooneratne; Margaret Atwood and Gita Mehta; Margaret Laurence and Bharati Mukherjee; Jawaharlal Nehru and Nirad C. Chaudhary; and Shobha De and Balwant Gargi. Also, it includes intra-authorial studies of the poems of Tagore and the novels of Santha Rama Rau and an inter-genre appraisal of fiction and film. It gives an invaluable exposure to the theory as well as practice of Comparative Study of English Literature.

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 Pune, Pune. 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 Fiction of Nayantara Sahgal. His areas of interest are Literary Theory, Comparative Literature, Commonwealth and Indian English Literature, and Third World Fiction.

• Preface
• 1. Comparative English Literature
• Limits and Prospects
• Dr. M.K. Bhatnagar
• 2. Surfacing and A Riversutra : A Comparative Study of Two Pilgrimages
• Dr. Rama Kundu
• 3. Raging Against the Trap of Marital Relationship : A Study of The Stone Angel and Wife
• Antum Amin Panjwani
• 4. Bushes in Two Hemispheres : A Comparative Study of Susanna Moodie’s Roughing It in the Bush and Yasmine Gooneratne’s A Change of Skies
• Dr. A.G. Khan
• 5. The Waste Land and The Gita : A Study in Spiritual Dynamics
• Dr. Anurag Sharma
• 6. Epic Dimensions in Pericles and Sakuntala : A Comparative Study
• Dr. Basavaraj S. Naikar
• 7. Wordsworth and Yeats: A Comparative Study
• Dr. Qaiser Zoha Alam
• 8. Myth as Structure in The Bible and John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath : A Comparative Study
• Dr. Prem Prakash
• 9. A Study of Shobha De’s Sushila’s Secret and Balwant Gargi’s The Tiger Skin
• Dr. (Mrs.) Pushp Lata
• 10. Pinter’s The Birthday Party and Beckett’s Waiting for Godot
• A Comparative Study
• Dr. Pradeep Trikha
• 11. The Autobiographies of Nehru and Chaudhary
• A Comparative Study
• Dr. Basavaraj S. Naikar
• 12. Canada as Female Brat : A Study of Sylvia Fraser’s Pandora through Susanna Moodie’s Roughing It in the Bush
• Akshya Kumar
• 13. Tagore’s Poetry with Special Reference to Gitanjali
• Dr. Padma Srinivasan
• 14. Shantha Rama Rau’s Novels: A Comparative Study
• Basavaraj S. Naikar
• 15. Literature and Cinema : Jayakantan’s Some Men on Some Occasions
• A Comparative Study of the Fiction and Film
• Dr. D. Parameswari
• 16. Sir William Jones and The Romantic Aesthetic
• Prof. G.R. Malik
• 17. A Comparative Study of The Treatment of Nature in Frost and Wordsworth
• Meenakshi Raman
• 18. Synaesthesia in the Poetry of Edith Sitwell and Wallace Stevens
• Dr. Shanthi Sivaraman