Morality in Tess and Other Essays

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Dr. Atma Ram, a critic of repute, presents insightful observations and critical opinions on quite a few important authors. It contains seventeen fresh and perceptive articles, three interview test, and a small “piece” on how children suffer in life and literature. First, Tess’s moral perspective is studies from a new angle of adjustment of images. In the next four essays the author deals with Jane Austen, E.M. Forster and Shakespears. Then the author concentrate on structural unity in The Old Man and the Sea. Thereafter he discusses a few works by Indian riters. They include Sri Aurobindo, Toru Dutt, V.S. Naipaul, Mulk Raj Anand, Bhattacharya, Anita Desai, Shiv K. Kumar and some authors from Himachal Pradesh. The book makes a significant contribution to critical scholarship in the area. Various literary issues have been dwelt upon in a style which is at once simple, straight and persuasive. Some of the articles are highly analytical and evaluative, while others are illustrative and general in nature. But all are girpping in appeal. Exclusive interviews with three writers-Anita Desai, Kulwant Singh Gill, and Narenderpal Singh-clearly reveal their views on their art and craft. All this helps clarify numerous aspects in literature, and in the process amply makes for several new and novel perspectives. The volume is dedicated to Mulk Raj Anand, the doyen of Indians writing in English.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Atma Ram

Dr. Atma Ram, a veteran educationist, academician, administrator, and writers, has to his credit over two dozen books, 300 articles/papers, and 47 Ph.D. / M.Phil. scholar. In 1981, he visited the USA and Britain and made on-the-spot study of variuos aspects of education, literature, and educational administration. Dr. Atma Ram has a life-long experience in education and has worked on several important positions-Education Adviser to Himachal Pradesh Government; Directoro f Education, Himachal Pradesh; Chairman, Examiniation Reforms Committee, HImachal Pradesh University; Eduation Consultant, HImachal Pradesh State Law Commission, etc. He has received the Order of People's National Award (1984), Distinguished Leadership Award 1986 (USA), and the Himachal Pradesh Sahitya Academy Award (1983). Dr. Ram's major publications include: Education for the Poor (1997), Morality in Tess and Other Essays (1996), Education for Development (1995), National Policy on Education: An Overview (1994, 2nd, rev.ed. 1996), Education for the People (1993), Interviews with Indians Writing in English (1992), Indian Poetry and Fiction in English (1991), Higher Education in India (1990), Woman as a Novelist: A Study of Jane Austen (1989), Essays on Indian english Literature (1984), Heroines in Jane Austen (1982), and Perspectives on R.K. Narayan (1981).

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Title
Morality in Tess and Other Essays
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
8170996104
Length
vi+110p., Notes; References; Index; 23.
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