• ISBN13: 9788126903320
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: Atlantic
• Publication Date: May 22, 2004
• Pages: 248
• Original Price: INR 450.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 260 grams

Here is the seventh Volume of Studies in Literature in English brought out in response to the growing demand for the series. Starting with the good old Shakespeare of perennial interest the essays included in this Volume shed new light on Milton, the great classical writer, Wordsworth and Coleridge, the great Romantics, Browning, and Hardy, two great Victorians and Conrad, Lawrence and Eliot, the eminent Moderns. The essays also re-evaluate the great American masters: Edgar Allan Poe, Joyce Carol Oates, Walt Whitman, Sarah Orne Jewett, Ernest Hemingway, Yvor Winters, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, James Baldwin, John Steinbeck, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Sylvia Plath, Jerzy Kosinski, Mark Strand and Sandra Lunnon. The Volume covers not only a wide range of authors and subjects but also offers a rich variety of aesthetic relish through treatments of Nobel Laureates, confessional poets, Black American writers and the Jewish writers, among others. Since most of the authors discussed here in the light of modern criticism are prescribed in the Universities in India, both the teachers and the students will find this Volume quite useful and stimulating and, needless to say, anybody interested in literature will enjoy these essays for their refreshingly original approaches to the canonical authors.

Mohit K. Ray, a full Professor since 1982, is one of the senior most Professors of English 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, 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. Professor Ray is a distinguished member of many international bodies including Association Internationale de Littérature Comparée, Paris, and Association Internationale des Critiques Littéraires, Paris.

• 1. The Supernatural and the Atmosphere in Hamlet
• –KULDEEP KUMAR and GAJENDRA KUMAR
• 2. Milton’s Satan: A Marxist Perspective
• –KH. KUNJO SINGH
• 3. The Concept of Imagination in Wordsworth and Coleridge
• –ANJANI KUMAR
• 4. Browning and His Poems on Art
• –JAYANTA BHATTACHARYA
• 5. Thomas Hardy’s Tess: A Portrayal of Tess’s Murder More Than Alec’s
• –MALLIKARJUN PATIL
• 6. Conrad Distracted Over Romance
• –R.N. SARKAR
• 7. “Sun”: A Critical Analysis
• –SHABNAM FIRDAUS
• 8. The Ambiguity of ‘Emotion’ in T.S. Eliot and Indian Aesthetics
• –AKHILESHWAR THAKUR
• 9. The Influence of T.S. Eliot on Modern Indian Poetry
• –SHYAMSUNDAR PADIHARI
• 10. Gothic Resonances: The Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe and Joyce Carol Oates
• –D. RAMAKRISHNA
• 11. Concept of Democracy in the Poetry of Walt Whitman
• –MANJU CHATURVEDI
• 12. Nature and the Politics of Its Representation: A Reading of Sarah Orne Jewett’s The Country of the Pointed Firs
• –ASHOK K. MOHAPATRA
• 13. The Narrative Techniques of Hemingway’s Short Story: A Critical Revaluation
• –ADLI H.M. ABDELJABER
• 14. Yvor Winters An Evolving Critic
• –FED MATHEW
• 15. The Problem of Alienation among the Negro Women as Depicted in the Novels of Langston Hughes, Richard Wright and James Baldwin
• –NISHA GUPTA
• 16. The World of Steinbeck: Myths, Legends and Literary Naturalism
• –S.D. SHARMA
• 17. The Portrayal of a Nation Threatened by War in Tennessee Williams’s The Demolition Downtown
• –K. BALACHANDRAN
• 18. Intertextuality of Dramatic Discourse: A Study through Miller’s All My Sons and Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire
• –RAM NARAYAN PANDA
• 19. Humanism in Hersey’s The War Lover
• –AVIRAM SINGH
• 20. Ethical Concern in Miller
• –GAJENDRA KUMAR
• 21. Autobiographical Elements in Sylvia Plath’s Short Story “Ocean 1212-W”
• –N.B. MASAL
• 22. “Hybridity” in Kosinski’s The Hermit of 69th Street
• –AMIYA KUMAR PATRA
• 23. Elusiveness of Self in Mark Strand’s Poetry
• –DILIP BHATT
• 24. Death in Sandra Lunnon’s Poetry
• –SUSHEEL KUMAR SHARMA
• Contributors