New Perspectives on British Authors: From William Shakespeare to Graham Greene

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The fifteen critical studies included in the book cover a wide spectrum of British canonical authors and texts that represent various genres including the ballad songs, drama, poetry, faction, short story, non-fictional prose. The essays bring delightfully fresh perspectives to bear on such rich quarries as Elizabethan drama, neo-classic play, romantic poetry, devotional literature, Victorian novel and short fiction, modernist fiction, twentieth century ‘polemical’ prose, postwar dystopia, and postmodernist novel, while encompassing such authors of timewinning fame as Shakespeare, Dryden, Coleridge, Keats, Hopkins, Hardy, Joyce, Orwell, Greene, and Golding. The critical perspectives that have been used to address these illustrious authors include the range from feminism to phonoaesthetics, intertextuality to Indian poetics, Bakhtinian carnivalesque to generic studies, ‘anxiety of influence’ to postmodern indeterminacy, etc. These scholarly explorations, which combine thorough research with fresh original insight, will provide both profit and pleasure to scholars as well as general readers interested in the sea.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Rama Kundu

Rama Kundu is a full Professor of English. She has been teaching in the Postgraduate Department of English, Burdwan University, West Bengal since 1976. She is the author of three books: Vision and Design in Hardy’s Fiction, Westling With God: Studies in English Devotional Poetry, and a Bengali Book Anandamath O Sampradaikta on Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay. She has also edited an anthology of research papers on Rabindranath Tagore’s The Home and the World, and a collection of essays on Thomas Hardy, in addition to translating a Volume of poems into English – On the Revolving Stage. She has written a large number of research papers (102); these were published in scholarly journals and anthologies in India and abroad. Professor Kundu has participated and chaired sessions in a large number of National and International Seminars and Conferences including six stints in Europe.

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Title
New Perspectives on British Authors: From William Shakespeare to Graham Greene
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
8176256900
Length
xiii+290p., Notes; 23cm.
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