• ISBN13: 9788126905348
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: Atlantic
• Publication Date: May 25, 2006
• Pages: 256
• Original Price: INR 495.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 460 grams

This anthology of as many as twenty essays offers us critiques and interpretations of mainstream British and American literature, as well as addresses the issue of studying literature vis-à-vis certain theoretical and emerging perspectives of our times. Apart from fine analyses of and sharp insights into British literature ranging from Chaucer to Wyatt and Shakespeare, Coleridge and Shelley to Conrad, E.M. Forster and D.H. Lawrence to T.S. Eliot, the modernist drama to Golding’s fictional world, we get a glimpse of the post-war American scenario as well; the anthology also introduces us to some of the interesting issues and modern critical theories and trends which are emerging to be highly relevant in literary study today, thus reminding us once again that literature, indeed, can never be an isolated phenomenon. Students, scholars and general readers of English literature will find the anthology both useful and enjoyable.

A full Professor since 1982, and recently retired, Dr Mohit K. Ray is one of the seniormost Professors in the country. He has three books and a large number of research papers published in scholarly journals in India and abroad, which reflect his wide range of scholarship including Criticism, Comparative Literature, New Literatures, Canonical Literature, Comparative Poetics and Translation Studies. Professor Ray has attended and chaired sessions as an invited participant in many international Conferences, Seminars, and Colloquia held in different parts of the globe—England, France, Portugal, Austria, Finland, Estonia, America, Canada, Japan, Hong Kong, etc. Professor Ray has studied several languages including Latin, Sanskrit, Arabic, French, and German. He has edited several anthologies of critical studies, and edits The Atlantic Critical Review, an international quarterly of global circulation. He is also at present the Chief Editor of Atlantic Publishers & Distributors. Professor Ray is associated with many international bodies including Association Internationale de Littérature Comparée, Paris, and Association Internationale des Critiques Littéraires, Paris.

• 1. Iconography in The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
• –Manju Srivastava
• 2. Wyatt’s They flee from me: In Search of a Sub-Text
• –Goutam Buddha Sural
• 3. R.B. Heilman and the Formalist Criticism of Shakespearean Tragedy
• –Mamta Gupta
• 4. Coleridge’s Use of the Ballad Form in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
• –Rajalakshmi Sathyanathan
• 5. The Poetic Vision of P.B. Shelley in A Defence of Poetry and Prometheus Unbound
• –D.S. Kaintura
• 6. Conrad and the Politics of Fiction
• –Sanjoy Saksena
• 7. E.M. Forster and the Theme of Self-Perpetuation
• –Smita Jha
• 8. A Passage to India: A Close Look
• –S.M. Chanda
• 9. Sons and Lovers: The Working-Class Background
• –Jojo Joy N.
• 10. “The Fire Sermon” in The Waste Land: A Buddhistic Approach
• –Monika Gupta
• 11. Eliot’s Theory of Tradition and its Relationship with the Poet
• –Jyoti V. Zahir
• 12. Modernism in English Drama
• –Mukunda Upadhyaya
• 13. The Meanings of Death: Death in the Early Novels of William Golding
• –Bishnupada Ray
• 14. The Shattered Dream: Post-war America and the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut
• –P.J. George
• 15. Psychology and Literature: C.G. Jung
• –S. Savitha
• 16. The Basics of Postmodernism
• –Kh. Kunjo Singh
• 17. Postmodernism: An Incomplete [or endless] Project
• –Sanjoy Saksena
• 18. Cultural Studies and New Historicism: Beginnings and Interpretations
• –Kh. Kunjo Singh
• 19. The Role of the Reader
• –R.K. Rastogi
• 20. Modes of Reading
• –R.K. Rastogi
• Contributors