Studies in Literature in English (Hardcover)  | Released: 2004

The fifteen essays included in this volume are refreshingly original and cover a wide range of authors and subjects. Looking briefly at Keats the essays move on to the great Victorian novelist and poet, Thomas Hardy, then linger for a considerable period in the world of T.S. Eliot, the greatest poet of the twentieth century, examine the expatriate sensibility of two American women writers�Bharati Mukherjee and Jhumpa Lahiri�of Indian extraction, reconnoitre West Africa through the eyes of Mary Kingsley and Gerald Durrell, visit Chinua Achebe and then end up with the Afro-American novels.
An excursion into the worlds of these writers is bound to be as delightful as it will be rewarding. Since most of the authors discussed are widely prescribed in the university syllabus in India and abroad, teachers, scholars and students of English literature in English will find this volume extremely useful. The general readers who are interested in literature in English will also find this book an interesting and precious aesthetic experience.Table of Contents: 1. The Odes of John Keats: An Approach through ‘Truth’ and ‘Beauty’
-RAM NARAYAN PANDA
2. Listening to the Resonant World of Hardy’s Prose
-RAMA KUNDU
3. Loneliness in Thomas Hardy’s Poems
-SAHADEO A. CHOUGULE
4. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock: A Reappraisal
-C.R. MITTAL
5. T.S. Eliot and The Great Romantics: A Study of His Changing Critical Ideas
-SUREKHA DANGWAL
6. Hereditary Transmutation of ‘Sin’ in The Family Reunion
-D.S. KAINTURA
7. Eliot’s Response to Shelley
-SUBHAS SARKAR
8. The Immigrant’s Search for an Identity: A Diasporic view with Reference to Bharati Mukherjee and Jhumpa Lahiri
-RUDRA PRASAD MAHTO
9. Interpreter of Maladies�A Voice Across the Seas
-N. SHARADA IYER
10. Points of View in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies
-BEULAH RANJITSINGH
11. Interpreter of Maladies: A Search for Form
-SANTWANA HALDAR
12. Alterity and the Imperial Agenda: Mary Kingsley’s Travels in West Africa and Gerald Durrell’s The Bafut Beagles
-O. AKO
13. Religious Conflict in Arrow of God
-BASAVARAJ NAIKAR
14. Politics of Race and Ethnicity in Afro-American Novels�A Study
-T.M.J. INDRA MOHAN
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