Mohit K Ray
36 books
This is the seventeenth volume in the series, Studies in Literature in English. The twenty-one essays in this volume cover a broad spectrum including British canonical authors from different eras like Milton, Keats, Arnold and Auden, as well as new wave science fiction writers like J.G. Ballard, while a look at a non-British European master, Hermann Hesse, adds a new strand to the collection. Furthermore, there are essays addressing a powerful mainstream American ...
Matthew Arnold once remarked, "He does not know English literature who only English literature knows," and Max Muller arrived at the intellectual conviction that "all higher knowledge is gained by comparison and rests on comparison. Over the years comparative literature has developed into a highly disciplined critical system that cuts across all geographical and historical boundaries and places a literary work in the broadest possible perspective ...
A unique characteristic of a canonical text is that it is amenable to multiple interpretations and every age discovers a new meaning in it and a new significance for its own time. The insightful essays that constitute this volume cover a broad spectrum of English literature from Pope to Pinter through Wordsworth, Coleridge, Jane Austen, Dickens, Browning, George Eliot, the pre-Raphaelites, Swinburne, Wilde, Conrad, Lawrence, Eliot, Spender, Golding, et al. By ...
The volume includes discussions on the American tradition of poetry as reflected in and enriched by the poetry of Robert Frost; then moving through Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Sylvia Plath and Philip Roth and finally focuses on Ernest Hemingway. Seven highly perceptive studies by eminent scholars on different aspects of Hemingway offer substantial meat as much for Hemingway scholars as for anybody interested in this great Nobel Laureate of keen active ...
V.S. Naipaul has claimed that all his work is really one and he has been writing one big book all these years; also, considering the world he has stepped into and the world he has to look at, he cannot be a professional novelist in the old sense. In early youth Naipaul took up the vocation of a writer as his religion and, since the beginning five decades ago, has drawn on his intensely personal experience of an uprooted person adrift in the world, his experience ...
It is a pleasure to place in the hands of our readers the fourth volume in the series, Studies in Literature in English. The essays included in this volume cover a broad spectrum of British canonical authors and texts and the studies are as insightful as they are topical. If feminism is very much in the air today, as many as six essays employ the latest tools of feminist criticism in examining eminent authors like William Blake, Lord Byron, Thomas Hardy, W.B. ...
This is the fifth volume of Studies in Literature in English. The nineteen essays that constitutes this volume cover a wide range of authors across time and space. Starting with Ben Jonson, the celebrated British dramatist of the Elizabethan Renaissance, the essays offer a fresh look at a number of British canonical authors – Fielding, George Eliot, Hardy, Hopkins, Lawrence and Orwell – and then take the readers across the Atlantic, to revisit and ...
The present volume of Studies in Literature in English is brought out in response to the growing demand for this series by our erudite readers. The twenty brilliant essays that constitute this volume offer new insights into old authors. Starting with the Bard of Avon, the good old Shakespeare, perennial and inexhaustible, we make an intellectual excursion into the world off the English canonical authors: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Jane Austen, Keats, Emilty ...
The twenty-five critical studies in the book which cover a wide spectrum of subjects, authors, titles and concepts across time and space, may be broadly classified into four categories: essays on (i) critical theory, (ii) on individual authors, (iii) in comparative literature and (iv) on language – in addition to a culture study focussed on the present day American scenario. The essays which encompass the vast areas of knowledge from Plato to Derrida, from ...
"Out of evil cometh good." One of the important consequences of colonialism in India is the birth of Indian English literature. The process through which it developed had three distinct stages. In the first stage there was admiration and imitation of the western models. After the first flush was over, a reaction set in. The was the second stage, the stage of self-discovery and self-assertion. The writers now draw on the rich cultural heritage of now ...
During the last few centuries women writers have considerably widened and deepened the areas of human experience, - with their sharp, feminine perception of life successfully transmuted into verbal artifact. The world body of literature in English would have been much poorer today but for the contribution of women writers. The new series-Studies in Women Writers in English - is a grateful acknowledgement of that contribution and public recognition of their voice. ...
The fifteen essays included in this volume are refreshingly original and cover a wide range of authors and subjects. Looking briefly at Keats the essays move on to the great Victorian novelist and poet, Thomas Hardy, then linger for a considerable period in the world of T.S. Eliot, the greatest poet of the twentieth century, examine the expatriate sensibility of two American women writers -- Bharati Mukherjee and Jhumpa Lahiri--of Indian extraction, reconnoiter ...
The importance of English both as a link language, a means of communication and as a medium of instruction has been steadily growing since independence, so that the total number of learners of English in India today would easily exceed the total populations of many countries of Europe. Moreover, we have now more speakers of English in India that in Britain. Learning a language is different from learning about a language, but to acquire proficiency in a language ...
This anthology comprising eighteen essays provides glimpses of mainstream British literature as well as surveys of American, African, and Canadian writings in English, and in a way a view of the practice of English writing across the globe. Here are fine analyses and sharp critique of, as well as fine sensitive response to, the plays of Shakespeare, the poetry of Dryden, Wordsworth, Keats, the Biographical works of E.M. Forster, the drama and poetry of T.S. ...
During the few centuries women writers have considerably widened and deepened the areas of human experience with their sharp, feminine perception of life, successfully transmuted into verbal artifact. The world body of literature in English would have been much poorer today but for the contribution of women writers. The new series-Studies in Women Writers in English-is a grateful acknowledgment of that contribution and public recognition of their voice. The ...
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-?-vis certain theoretical and emerging perspectives of our times. Apart from fine analyses of an 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 ...
Hastily written in pencil and serialized in Blackwood's Magazine in 1899 as "The Heart of Darkness", and later published in book form in 1902, as Heart of Darkness, the sibylline charm of the novel has established it as one of the most important canonical texts of British literature. Critics have seen the book as an ‘angry document on absurd and brutal exploitation' (Guerard), ‘probably the greatest short novel in English' (Karl), 'an annunciation ...
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, 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 ...