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The 1980 S And After Has Created A Typical Post-Modern Anxiety With The Advent Of Salman Rushdie As An Influential Diaspora Writer. This Book Is Conceptualized Around A Series Of Topics Like Post-Modern Anxiety, Identity, Politics, National And Self-Definition, The Problem Of Exile And Diaspora, And An Interest To Examine The Way Indian English Literature Has Established Itself And Set Up As A Separate Discipline. While The Bright And Brilliant Promises About Indian English Literature Rejuvenate Us, Some Pertinent Questions Hang Above Us Related To Our Identity, Historiography And The Political And National Affiliation Of A Writer. Does The Absence Of A National Identity Affect The Tone Of A...
T.S. Eliot : A Twenty-First Century View Intends To Set The Poems And Plays Of The Epoch-Making Poet In The Context Of His Inner Preoccupations As Revealed In The Recently Published Biographical Works On Him. It Is A Masterly Study Of All The Important Poems And Plays Of Eliot Which Are Included In The Syllabi Of Different Indian Universities. The Book Is Comprehensive And Lucid, Including In Its Details All The Possible Ways Of Interpreting Eliot S Poems And Plays. While Analyzing The Previous Trends Of Eliot Criticism, Supplying Full Documents Wherever Necessary, The Book Also Projects The Well-Researched View Of Its Author Who Equates Eliot S Moral Stand With The Kierkegaardian Notion Of Ethical Reality, A Significant Aspect Of Existentialism, And Thus Opens A New Vista Of Research On Eliot. Both The Students And The Scholars Will Find The Book Extremely Useful.
Mohit K. Ray, b.1940, former Professor of English, Burdwan University; contributed articles.
During The Post-War Years The Experimental Tendency In British Novel Continued, But The Critics Lamented That The Mid-Twentieth Century British Literature Produced No Ulysses. William Golding S Lord Of The Flies (1954) Was Accepted As An Experiment With The Restoration Of Fable In English Fiction, A Reconstruction At An Adult Level Of R.M. Ballantyne S Coral Island. Thanks To The Nobel Prize Awarded To Golding In 1983, Lord Of The Flies Came To The Limelight And Its Underlying Philosophy Has Been Variously Interpreted Since Then. In The Face Of An Upsurge In Golding Criticism, And More Specifically, In Lord Of The Flies, The Novel Demands Fresh Discussions. The Present Book Seeks To Acquaint...
English Is Being Written And Read Today By More People Outside England Than Inside. This Applies No Less To The Women Writers In English Across The Globe Who Have Made Their Unmistakable Mark In English Literature[S], Especially In The Last Century. The Present Volume, The Second In The New Projected Series Of Atlantic Publishers And Distributors, Studies In Women Writers In English Bears Evidence To This Phenomenon As The Critics Address Women Writers In English In Various Parts Of The Globe Rather Than Concentrating On Canonised Mainstream Authors And Texts, And Thus Mainstream Writers Figure Only Referentially, In The Margin Of These Critical Texts, As It Were. Again, Understandably India...
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Like Criticism, Translation Is Always A Text About A Text And Hence It Is A Metatext. We Translate By Intuition. There Is No Science Of Translating Though There Are Scientific Theories Of Translation. In This Book, The Author Has Made A Thorough Analysis Of Various Aspects Of Translation Studies Both In The East And The West. Apart From Making A Background Study Of Translation, He Has Analysed Translation As Creative Writing, As Linguistic Bridge-Building And As Nation Building. The Author Has Devoted A Chapter Each To The Important Subjects: Theory And Practice Of Translation: The Indian Context, Comparative Literature And Translation Studies: A Correlation, The Role Of The Translator, A Critique Of Translation Theories And Above All, The Place Of Translation In The Twenty-First Century In The Global Context. This Is An Incisive And Well Researched Book On Translation Studies In Our Country.
The New Series Studies In Women Writers In English Is A Grateful Acknowledgment Of The Contribution And Public Recognition Of The Emerging Voice Of Women In The Arena Of Literature During The Last Few Centuries, And Especially In The Latter Half Of The Twentieth Century. Women Writers Across The Globe Have Made Their Distinctive Mark, With Their Own Perception Of Life Be It Feminine, Or Feminist Or Female.The Present Volume, The Fifth In The Series, Introduces Critique Of Work By Women Writers; It Bears Evidence To The Growing Critical Attention Towards Authors Writing Outside The Mainstream, In America, Canada, And Especially In India.The Eighteen Essays Included In This Fifth Volume Of The...
William Wordsworth, 1770-1850, English poet.
The Present Thirteenth Volume Of Studies In Literature In English Contains Seventeen Well-Researched Essays Covering A Wide Range Of Authors And Subjects Across Space And Time. Starting With The Good Old Shakespeare, The Essays Cover A Number Of British Canonical Authors, Including Coleridge, Shelley And Golding. Across The Atlantic Eminent American Authors Like Henry James, Arthur Miller And Saul Bellow Are Given Fresh Look. Rohinton Mistry From Canada, Hermann Hesse, A German Nobel Laureate, And Bertolt Brecht Of Epic Theatre Fame From Germany, V.S. Naipaul, The Nobel Laureate Originally From India, And Pirandello, The Italian Nobel Laureate, Are All Treated With Fine Critical Insight.It Is Hoped That Students, Scholars And General Readers Of English Literature Will Find This Anthology Both Useful And Enjoyable Even More Than The Earlier Volumes Of Studies In Literature In English.