New Perspectives in British Literature – Vol 2 (HARDCOVER)  | Released: 2010

British literature can boast of an illustrious, prestigious past and an exciting, evocative present. New Perspectives in British Literature provides students and readers with a critical introduction to key authors and their works through a collection of the latest critical perspectives on British literature. The book offers a comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of a broad range of writers, drawing together both established and emerging literary voices reflecting the scope of new British writing. Organised around key themes in contemporary writing�modern lives, contemporary living, distortions and dreams, states of identity and histories�the anthology focuses on major themes and trends in British literature including post-colonialism, gender and history, and will prove to be an ideal guide to British literature today. The book will be a useful tool for readers wishing to know more about Britain’s great literary tradition, for students pursuing English studies, for teachers and researchers in search of novelty and for libraries in need of an accessible reference work on this perennially interesting subject. Incorporating recent developments in the field, the anthology entices students to explore the subject further and also provides new syntheses that will be of interest to scholars.Table of Contents: Preface; 1. �A Little Touch of Harry in the Night�: Translucency and Projective Transversality in the Sexual and National Politics of Henry V�Donald Hedrick and Bryan Reynolds; 2. The Journey Beyond: W.B. Yeats�s �Sailing to Byzantium� and T.S. Eliot�s �Journey of the Magi��John Nkemngong Nkengasong; 3. Transgressiveness in Virginia Woolf: The Case of Augustus Carmichael in To the Lighthouse�Ernest L. Veyu; 4. The Angry Decade and Room at the Top by John Braine�Aroonima Sinha; 5. In Defence of Shelley�s Skylark�Madhu Shalini; 6. �Art for My Sake� and the Western Self in D.H. Lawrence�s The Rainbow and Women in Love�Mbuh Tennu Mbuh; 7. The Plays of Shaw: Propaganda as Art�Vandana Datta; 8. Death and Fatalism in Philip Larkin�Shibu Simon; 9. Shakespeare�s Moor and Kenjo Jumbam�s White Man: The Politics of Otherness�Kenneth Usongo; 10. Osborne�s Look Back in Anger: A Socio- psychological Critique of �Anger� and �Violence��Beena Agarwal; 11. Monologues of Browning on Politics�Jayanta Bhattacharya; 12. Wodehouse: The Wizard of Words�Ramendra Kumar; 13. An Escape from the Self in Pinter�s Plays�Sanjay Kumar; 14. A Critical Attempt on Mystical Poetry�Sister Marie Jessie; 15. Re-living the Past in its Exuberance: Under the Greenwood Tree in the Light of Carnivalesque�Ajoy Sengupta; 16. Wordsworth�s Vision of Innocence and Childhood�Anju Bala Agrawal; 17. Interpretations of Mystical and Spiritual Colonial India by an Outsider: E.M. Forster�s A Passage to India�Vandana Singh; 18. �A Mosaic of Quotations�: Reading Inter-textuality in T.S. Eliot�s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock�Arindam Das