• ISBN13: 9788126934348
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: Atlantic
• Publication Date: July 28, 2022
• Pages: 630
• Original Price: INR 595.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 590 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): General

Thinking of the usefulness and the great popularity of the first eight editions of the book, Twentieth Century Literary Criticism and considering the valuable suggestions received from several quarters, the current ninth edition has been revised and enlarged by adding six new chapters on recent development in literary criticism across the globe. The book now contains 70 chapters in all, organized into four parts. Six new chapters in Part IV are on post-humanities, Cyborgs, Resistance to Theory, Imitation and Gender Insubordination, Texts and Lumps, and Intercriticality (a term coined by the author). The theories and the texts have been explained with clarity and precision in a simple language and lucid style. This is an invaluable reference book for anyone interested in the field of literary criticism in the twentieth century and beyond.

Bijay Kumar Das, M.A., Ph.D., D.Litt., formerly a Reader in English at Ravenshaw College, Cuttack, and Professor of English at Burdwan University, Burdwan, is a contributor to The Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century (New York). He has successfully guided 27 Ph.D. scholars and was the Chief Editor of The Indian Journal of English Studies for three years (2007-09). He is the Editor of The Critical Endeavour since 1995. He is also the President of the Researchers’ Association of Odisha which is devoted to the cause of English Studies in India. He has published more than 200 research papers in national and international journals of repute. He has to his credit more than three dozen of authored/edited reference books. His published books include Critical Essays on Post-Colonial Literature, Twentieth Century Literary Criticism, Interpreting Poetry and Evaluating Criticism, A Handbook of Translation Studies, The Poetry of Jayanta Mahapatra, Form and Meaning in Mahesh Dattani’s Plays, Post-Modern Indian English Literature, Shiv K. Kumar as a Post-Colonial Poet, Revisiting W.B. Yeats’s World and Art, Comparative Literature, Studies in Postcolonial Literature, Ashis Nandy’s Exiled at Home: Theory and Praxis, Critical Essays on Research Methodology, Interdisciplinarity and Indian Literature, Interpreting Poetry and Evaluating Criticism, Perspectives on the Poetry of A.K. Ramanujan, Handbook of Communication Skills and Functional English, and A Reader’s Guide to Ten Twentieth Century Indian Poets. Professor Das is the winner of Professor C.D. Narasimhaiah Memorial Award for 2022.

• PART I

• 1. Pioneers: T.S. Eliot, I.A. Richards and F.R. Leavis
• 2. Trends in Twentieth Century Criticism
• 3. Basic Tenets of New Criticism
• 4. Structuralism: A Note
• 5. The Theory of Deconstruction: An Appraisal
• 6. Theory of Deconstruction: Retrospect and Prospect
• 7. The Validity of Reader-Response Criticism
• 8. The Reader and the Death of the Author
• 9. A Critique of Russian Formalism
• 10. Myth Criticism: A Note
• 11. Feminist Literary Criticism: An Overview
• 12. A Critique of Marxist Criticism
• 13. Psychoanalytic Criticism
• 14. Semiotics and Postsemiotics
• 15. New Historicism: An Appraisal
• 16. Cultural Criticism: An Overview
• 17. A Critique of Postcolonial Theory
• 18. Subaltern Studies as Postcolonial Criticism: A Note
• 19. Gender Studies: Gay and Lesbian Criticism and Queer Theory
• 20. A Critique of Translation Theories
• 21. The Identity of a Literary Text: Problems and Responses
• 22. Critical Theories and Literary Texts: A Correlation
• 23. A Critique of Postmodernism
• 24. Issues in Twentieth Century Criticism
• 25. Beyond Twentieth Century Literary Criticism and Literary Theory

• PART II

• 26. T.S. Eliot and Sri Aurobindo on Poets and Poetry
• 27. A Critique of Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent”
• 28. Eliot’s ‘Objective Correlative’: A Note
• 29. T.S. Eliot’s “To Criticize the Critic”: A Note
• 30. I.A. Richards’: “The Imagination”
• 31. I.A. Richards’ “Metaphor”: A Note
• 32. F.R. Leavis’ “Keats”: A Note
• 33. F.R. Leavis’ “Literary Criticism and Philosophy”: A Note
• 34. Ransom’s Poetry: A Note on Ontology
• 35. Cleanth Brooks’ “The Language of Paradox”: An Evaluation
• 36. “How Many Children had Lady Macbeth”: An Analysis
• 37. J.W. Krutch’s “The Tragic Fallacy”: An Overview
• 38. Realism and the Contemporary Novel: An Analysis
• 39. “The Archetypes of Literature”: A Note
• 40. Tzvetan Todorov’s “Definition of Poetics”: An Analysis
• 41. Roland Barthes’ “Criticism as Language”: A Note
• 42. Roland Barthes’ “From Work to Text”: An Analysis
• 43. Roland Barthes’ “Authors and Writers”: A Note
• 44. Jacques Derrida’s “Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences”: A Note
• 45. Michel Foucault’s “What’s an Author?”: An Evaluation
• 46. Edward Said’s ‘Orientalism’ and Postcolonial Theory
• 47. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s “Poststructuralism, Marginality, Postcoloniality and Value”: A Note
• 48. Homi K. Bhabha and Postcolonial Criticism
• 49. Homi K. Bhabha’s “The Other Question: The Stereotype and Colonial Discourse”: A Note
• 50. Aijaz Ahmad’s “‘Indian Literature’: Notes Towards the Definition of a Category”: An Overview

• PART III

• 51. Textuality, Intertextuality and Hypertextuality: Ways of Reading a Literary Text
• 52. Reconfiguring Cultural Studies and Postcolonialism
• 53. Interrogating, Historicizing and Theorizing Diaspora
• 54. Critiquing Globalization Theory
• 55. The Resurrection of Literary Theory
• 56. Learning Literature through Alternative Culture
• 57. The Frontiers of Ecocriticism
• 58. The Theory of Political Correctness
• 59. Theorizing Interdisciplinarity
• 60. Critical Fallacy
• 61. Globalectics: A Semblance of Criticism
• 62. Shakespeare Criticism in the Twentieth Century and Beyond
• 63. Postcoloniality to Globalectics: The Ways of Postcolonial Studies
• 64. Demarcating the Frontiers of Literary Criticism and Contemporary Thought

• PART IV

• 65. The Confluence of Cultural and Literary Theories in Marjorie Garber’s ‘Who Owns “Human Nature”?’
• 66. Donna J. Haraway’s “A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s”: An Evaluation
• 67. Critiquing Paul de Man’s “The Resistance to Theory”
• 68. Critiquing Judith Butler’s “Imitation and Gender Insubordination”
• 69. Richard Rorty’s “Texts and Lumps”: A Theoretical Reading
• 70. Intercriticality: The Correlation between Individual Critics and Schools of Criticism
• Bibliography
• Index