Research Methods In English (Paperback-2024)

This book introduces post-graduate students and researchers to the basics and techniques of research methods in English literature and language. It covers qualitative and quantitative methodology and includes the following topics:

• Definition, aims and objectives of research

• Materials and tools of research

• Background knowledge of the researcher

• Methods of research

(i) Biography

(ii) Bibliography and textual criticism

(iii) Modern critical theories

• The literary thesis

• Bibliographical references

The book will be most useful for teachers, students, program administrators and researchers in their research work. It can be used as a basic text for research methodology paper in M.A. and M.Phil. and pre-Ph.D. courses.

Dr. M.P. Sinha, a scholar of national repute, was Professor and Head, Department of English (1988–2002) in Kanpur University (now Chhatrapati Sahuji Maharaj University). Besides publishing a good number of papers in reputed journals, he has chaired academic sessions in national and international seminars. His published books are W.B. Yeats: His Poetry and Politics and Major Trends in the Post-Independence: Indian English Fiction (co-authored with Dr. B.R. Agrawal).