Studies in Comparative Literature (HARDCOVER)  | Released: 2002

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.Table of Contents: 1. The Western Discovery of Sanskrit and the Growth of Linguistic Studies Amarnath Jha 2. East and West: Some Parallels in Indian and Western Poetics Asha Choubey 3. Eastern and Western Views on the Poetry of Incantation R.K. Mishra 4. Sophocles and Indian Poetics: A Study of Oedipus in the light of Rasa Theory Asha Choubey 5. A Comparative Study of American and Indo- English Fiction in the Early Twentieth Century Alka Saxena 6. Triumph of the Primitive: A Comparative Study of Saul Bellows Henderson the Rain King and R.K. Narayans The Guide Digambar Singh Dewari 7. The Pilgrimage of Siddhartha: A Quest for Truth, Vision and Wisdom P.C. Pradhan 8. Self-Delineation in Fiction: A Comparative Study of Select Works of Nayantara Sahgal and Akilon Ranjit Singh 9. Katherine Mansfields The Garden Party and At the BayAn Overview Sumita Nasker 10. From Courtyards to Horizons: A Reading of Anjana Appachanas Her Mother and Shani Mootoos A Garden of Her Own Ameena K. Ansari 11. A Comparative Study of Santa Rama Raus Play A Passage to India and E.M. Forsters Novel A Passage to India Veena Nare 12. Desecration of Religious Values in The Power and the Glory and Samskara: A Comparative Study Basavaraj Naikar 13. Treatment of Evil in Steinbecks The Pearl and Chaucers The Pardoners Tale M.A. Nare 14. Women Protagonists in Wharton and Sivasankari: A Feminist Perspective Stella 15. A Comparative Study of Mamta Kalias Poem: Tribute to Papa and Sylvia Plaths Daddy Veena Nare 16. Browning and Tagore: Their Poems on Religious Thoughts Jayanta Bhattacharya 17. Poe Indianised: From To Helen to Banalata Sen Rama Kundu