Studies in Literature in English, Vol. 7 (Hardbound - 2004)

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.