The book presents a selection of S. Viswanathan’s papers on English literature in various scholarly periodicals and collections. It has three sections -on Milton, on other authors and on contemporary critical theory and practice. The essays together exemplify a range of historico-critical interpretative approaches and methods. They may be said to bring something new to the perspective in which the literary or critical works concerned may be viewed. The cumulative effect of the essays is to show how the literary work is a site of close interweave or interpenetration of text and its contents. Hence the text demand a response which is both contextual (akin to the New Critical and contextual (like the cultural political).
ABOUT THE AUTHOR S. Viswanathan
S. Viswanathan retired as Professor of English, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad. Earlier, he taught at Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati. He has held fellowships at the University of Kent, Canterbury, U.K. (1974-75) and the Queen’s University of Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland (1984-85), and was also UGC National Lecturer in English (1986-87). Apart from about a hundred articles on Shakespeare and on a range of other literary topics in professional journals and collections in India and abroad, he has published The Shakespeare Play as Poem: A Critical Tradition in Perspective (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980) and On Shakespeare’s Dramaturgy (New Delhi: Spantech Publishers, 1993); he has co-edited Shakespeare in India (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1987) with S. Nagarajan and Critical Essays in Honour of V.S. Seturaman (Madras: Macmillan, 1987) with C T Indra and T Sriraman. He is General Editor of the Orient Longman Drama Classics, a series of play editions.
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