Studies in Comparative Literature

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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 by considering it in terms of influence, genre, theme, treatment, technique, etc. The scholarly essays included in this volume offer a magnificent spectrum and richness of variety of comparative approaches to, and aesthetic relish of, literature. The authors discussed are as varied as they are separated by space and time: Sophocles and Saul Bellow, Hermann Hesse and Nayantara Sahgal, Appachana and Shani Mootoo, Browning and Tagore, Poe and Jibananda, for example. Both the serious scholars and the general readers will find this book extremely interesting and useful.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Mohit K Ray

Professor Mohit K. Ray. A full Professor since 1982, is one of the seniormost Professors in the country. He has three books and a large number of research papers published in scholarly journals in India and abroad, which reflect his wide range of scholarship including Criticism, comparative Literature, New Literatures, Canonical Literature, Comparative Poetics and Translation Studies. Professor Ray has attended and chaired sessions as an invited participant in many international Conference. Seminars and Colloqula held in different parts of the globe â€“ England, France, Portugal, Austria, Finland, Estonia, America, Canada, Japan, Hong Kong etc. Professor Ray has studied several languages including Latin, Sanskrit, Arabic, French, German etc. He has edited several anthologies of critical studies, and edits three research journals. Professor Ray is a distinguished member of many international bodies including Association Interationale de Litterature Comparee, Paris, and Association Internationale des Critiques Litteraires, Paris.