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Books existing on post-1950 British Poetry are mostly in the nature of surveys. The present book, for the first time, offers the reader an idea of the kind of theory notable contemporary British poets believe in and adhere to. The book is a study in sources-of images, myths, symbols-and offers detailed analysis of selected poems. It inclines to the view that behind the facade of theories concerning poetry, which is always time-bound, real poetry is a mirror to ...
The book critically examines the literary-critical and theoretical movements from the beginning of the present century upto roughly the present time. Each chapter undertakes the study of a particular movement except chapter IV where Northrop Frye’s personality by now is well recognized as a movement in itself. The first chapter is devoted to New Criticism. It studies the central texts of the literary theorists associated with this movement and ...
This book is a pioneering attempt at evaluating Sri Aurobindo’s work from multiple perspectives and from different subject-fields. Scholars who contribute here come from the disciplines of literature, philosophy, education and political science. The poet-saint-philosopher-political thinker emerges all the more strongly, providing a clue to many more explorations. The volume is thoroughly well-researched with key articles establishing Aurobindo’s relevance to ...
The first volume of the book is a collection of well-researched articles discussing, thoroughly, the most recent trends of Indian Literature in English exhibits—nativism, diaspora, modernism, colonialism, postcolonialism, postmodernism, etc. The contribution from the well known scholars in the fields—Professors O.P. Mathur, G.S. Balarama Gupta, R.S. Sharma, among other noted scholars, immensely inhance the value and worth of ...