• ISBN13: 9788126916573
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: Atlantic
• Publication Date: May 26, 2012
• Pages: 552
• Original Price: INR 1390.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 1000 grams

Literary theories are indispensable tools for literature meant to interpret and evaluate works of literature with the mind of revealing the in-depth implications of such works. Written in concise and clear language, Modern Literary Theories: New Perspectives (Vol. I), offers a historical overview of literary criticism and theory throughout the twentieth century along with a close analysis of some of the most important and commonly taught texts from the period. The book aims at providing an accessible introduction to modern literary theory and criticism and places various modes of criticism within their historical and intellectual contexts. It attempts to explore the works of a diverse group of 20th century writers, including Babbitt, Woolf, Bakhtin, Heidegger, Lacan, Derrida, Judith Butler, Zizek, Nussbaum, Negri and Hardt, and covers modern literary theories like Transversal Theory, Nation Theory, Queer Theory, Masculinity Studies, Feminism, Autobiographical Theory, Narratology and Film Theory, Formalism, Psychoanalytical Theory, New Criticism, Structuralism, Deconstruction, Marxism, New Historicism, Gender Studies and Culture Studies. The book offers a comprehensive, critical and theoretical tool for gaining access into deeper meaning of literary canons. It will not only benefit the beginners trying to get acquainted with the theoretical and critical tools of evaluation in English literature but also prove to be interesting and useful to the teachers of English literature, leading them to the new approaches to theory and criticism. Besides, it will help the researchers of modern literary theories.

A gold medallist from Patna University, Bihar, Sunita Sinha, has been teaching as an Associate Professor in English in Women’s College, Samastipur, L.N. Mithila University, Bihar. She has authored two books: Graham Greene: A Study of His Major Novels and Post Colonial Women Writers: New Perspectives Her editorial ventures include eight anthologies: New Urges in Post Colonial Literature: Widening Horizons; Reconceiving Postcolonialism: Visions and Revisions; Postcolonial Imaginings: Fissions and Fusions; Critical Responses to Kiran Desai; New Perspectives in British Literature (Vol. 1 & 11); and Indian Booker Prize Winners (Vol. 1 & 11). Dr Sinha has participated in many national and international seminars and conferences and has written many scholarly papers which have been published in various national and international journals. Her areas of interest are British, Indian, Australian and Canadian literature. She is the Honorary Editor/Director for Bihar, Atlantic Publishers & Distributors [P] Ltd. She is the Assistant Editor of The Atlantic Critical Review and the Associate Editor of The Atlantic Journal of Feminist Literature.

• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• 1. Objective Agency and the Shakespearean Antique: A Transversal Perspective in Light of Theater
• Bryan Reynolds
• 2. Tracking Skilled Diasporas: Globalization, Brain Drain and the Postcolonial Condition in Nigeria
• Nduka Otiono
• 3. Cheikh Hamidou Kane’s Ambiguous Adventure and Kenjo Jumbam’s The White Man of God: Towards the Syncretism of Cultures
• Kenneth Usongo
• 4. Postmodernism and A.S. Byatt’s Possession
• Arpa Ghosh
• 5. Travel Theory
• Joyashri Choudhury
• 6. Perennialism, Primordialism, Ethnicity and Theoretical Urgings of Nation
• Arindam Das
• 7. Existential Postulations in The Book of Job
• Anita Myles
• 8. Surviving Whole: A Feminist Approach to Ecocriticism
• Shampa Ghosh
• 9. Gestic Feminist Dramaturgy: A Study of Contemporary Indian Feminist Plays
• Anita Singh and Shreyasee Datta
• 10. Fiction and Style: A Case Study of Midnight’s Children
• Garima Gupta
• 11. T.S. Eliot’s “Tradition and The Individual Talent” as an Anti-intentionalistic Essay
• Reena Mitra
• 12. Predatory Intents and Pornographic Messages: Tendulkar Writing “Orient” in Ghashiram Kotwal
• Vanashree
• 13. A Comparative Study of A Golden Age and Kartography in the light of New Historicism
• Jackie Haque
• 14. Reflections on Indian Diasporic Novel(s): Category, Theory and Praxis
• Banibrata Mahanta and Koushik Bhattacharjee
• 15. Filming of Literature
• Bhaskar Roy Barman
• 16. Structuralism
• N. Sharada Iyer
• 17. Slanted Vision: Psychoanalysis and Religious Motifs in the Poetry of Kamala Das
• Purnendu Chatterjee
• Contributors