Studies in Literature in English (Hardcover)  | Released: 2006

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 and 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 drama to Goldings fictional world, we get a glimpse of the post-war American scenario as well; the anthology also introduces us to some of the interesting issues and modern critical theories and trends which are emerging to be highly relevant in literary study today, thus reminding us once again that literature, indeed, can never be an isolated phenomenon. Students, scholars and general readers of English literature will find the anthology both useful and enjoyable.Table of Contents: 1. Iconography in The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales Manju Srivastava 2. Wyatts They flee from me: In Search of a Sub-Text Goutam Buddha Sural 3. R.B. Heilman and the Formalist Criticism of Shakespearean Tragedy Mamta Gupta 4. Coleridges Use of the Ballad Form in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Rajalakshmi Sathyanathan 5. The Poetic Vision of P.B. Shelley in A Defence of Poetry and Prometheus Unbound D.S. Kaintura 6. Conrad and the Politics of Fiction Sanjoy Saksena 7. E.M. Forster and the Theme of Self-Perpetuation Smita Jha 8. A Passage to India: A Close Look S.M. Chanda 9. Sons and Lovers: The Working-Class Background Jojo Joy N. 10. The Fire Sermon in The Waste Land: A Buddhistic Approach Monika Gupta 11. Eliots Theory of Tradition and its Relationship with the Poet Jyoti V. Zahir 12. Modernism in English Drama Mukunda Upadhyaya 13. The Meanings of Death: Death in the Early Novels of William Golding Bishnupada Ray 14. The Shattered Dream: Post-war America and the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut P.J. George 15. Psychology and Literature: C.G. Jung S. Savitha 16. The Basics of Postmodernism Kh. Kunjo Singh 17. Postmodernism: An Incomplete [or endless] Project Sanjoy Saksena 18. Cultural Studies and New Historicism: Beginnings and Interpretations Kh. Kunjo Singh 19. The Role of the Reader R.K. Rastogi 20. Modes of Reading R.K. Rastogi Contributors