Studies in Literature in English (Hardcover)  | Released: 2003

This is the fifth volume of Studies in Literature in English. The nineteen essays that constitute this volume cover a wide range of authors across time and space. Starting with Ben Jonson, the celebrated British dramatist of the Elizabethan Renaissance, the essays offer a fresh look at a number of British canonical authorsFielding, George Eliot, Hardy, Hopkins, Lawrence and Orwelland then take the readers across the Atlantic, to revisit and re-evaluate some of the makers of American literature: Emily Dickinson, R.S. Crane, Tennessee Williams, Carsan McCullers, Jack Gelber down to the postmodern Thomas Pynchon. Then, for a change, we have a glimpse of the Parsi life in the novel of Bapsi Sidhwa. We conclude our literary tour with the Pulitzer-winning Jhumpa Lahiri. The anthology bears testimony to the rich variety of aesthetic relish promised by literatures in English produced across continents and in different cultures. That English literature today is not one literature but many literatures in English and that any meaningful study of it calls for an appropriate critical idiom which can do justice to this extraordinary richness and variety, become evident from the nature of this anthologyas much by its choice of subjects as by the fine critical insights with which the subjects are treated. Since most of the authors critically discussed in this volume are widely prescribed in the universities, the students will find this volume extremely useful, and the common readers who are interested in literature in English will also find it quite interesting because of the variety of aesthetic pleasure assured by the diversity of subjects.Table of Contents: 1. Ben Jonsons Every Man in His Humour: A Study Mallikarjun Patil 2. The Plot of Tom Jones: A Formalistic Approach Asit Kr. Biswas 3. Understanding Silas Marner, the Weaver of Raveloe Mrinal Kanti Chattopadhyay 4. Arnolds Preface to Poems (1853) and the Poetics of Modernity Prasenjit Chattopadhyay 5. Hopkinss Sonnets of Desolation: A Study in Intertextuality G.B. Sural 6. Folklore and Hardys Short Stories Asim Majumdar 7. Thomas Hardy and the Language of Laughter Asim Majumdar 8. Hardy and the Language of Hearing Asim Majumdar 9. The Illegitimate Children in Hardys Stories Asim Majumdar 10. The Poetry of D.H. Lawrence: A Study in Growth and Form Harihar Rath 11. Violence in the Novels of George Orwell A.A. Khan 12. Emily Dickinson: A Mystic Poet Mallikarjun Patil 13. R.S. Crane on Hemingway Asit Kr. Biswas 14. Southern Syndrome in the Plays of Tennessee Williams Sucheta Pathania 15. The Study of an Isolated Individual in Carsan McCullers The Heart is a Lonely Hunter Surekha Dangwal 16. Jack Gelbers The Connection: An Interpretation Kalpana Purohit 17. Cybernetic Identity in Thomas Pynchon: From V to V-2 T. Ravichandran 18. The Crow Eaters: A Chronicle of Parsi Life Mallikarjun Patil 19. Ironic Vision in Jhumpa Lahiris Interpreter of Maladies Janet Wilson