Studies in Literature in English, Vol. 12 (Hardbound - 2006)

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, About the AuthorDr 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.