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

Sixteen critical essays that constitute this Volume shed new light on some of the excellent literary works in English produced in different parts of the world: England, America, Canada, Africa and India. The authors discussed are: Marlowe, Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Browning, Russell and Golding; Hemingway, Roethke, and Updike; Michael Ondaatje; Chinua Achebe; David Davidar. There are also two perceptive critical essaysone on the American poetry since 1950 and the other on the impact of science and technology on English poetry. It is always an intellectual pleasure to see an old author or an old text in a new light as it is a great joy to discover suddenly a realm of gold in a new literary work. The essays thus offer an experience of suddenly being transported to a different world altogether accompanied by an aesthetic relish of discovering a familiar world in an unfamiliar fashion. Since most of the authors, discussed, are prescribed in syllabi of various Indian Universities both the teachers and the students of English literature will certainly find them extremely useful, and anybody interested in literature in English is also bound to be pleasantly surprised by the richness and variety of aesthetic experience and intellectual delight promised by these luminous essays.Table of Contents: 1. Aristotelian Hero and Marlowe's Dr Faustus -AWANISH RAI 2. Absolutism in Shakespeare's HeroesOthello, King Lear and Macbeth -SANTOSH CHAKRABARTI 3. Implications of the Cross-dressing Plot in William Shakespear's Twelfth Night -SHABINA NISHAT OMAR 4. Holistic Growth of a Nature Poet's Mind: Eco- Aesthetics and Wordsworth's The Prelude -ANVAR SADHATH 5. Browning's Lovers in the Vale of Soul-making -JAYANTA BHATTACHARYA 6. Nature and Human Nature in the Poetry of Browning -JAYANTA BHATTACHARYA 7. The Structure of a Russellian Essay -BASAVARAJ NAIKAR 8. William Golding's Concept of Man and His Universe -N. SHARADA IYER 9. The Impact of Science and Technology on English Poetry -MEENAKSHI RAMAN 10. Symbolism in the Novels of Ernest Hemingway -ISHTEYAQUE SHAMS 11. Theodore Roethke: Search for Self-Identity -JAYATI GHOSAL 12. Updike as a Neo-Hawthorne: A Study in Inter-Text -PRADIPTA SENGUPTA 13. Politics of Self: A Study of American Poetry Since 1950 with Reference to Ginsberg, Ammons Merwin, Rich and Ashbery -SOUMYAJIT SAMANTA 14. Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient: A Thematic Study -SANTWANA HALDAR 15. 'The Falcon cannot hear the Falconer': The Old Set of Values Confronting the New in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart -SANTWANA HALDAR 16. Novel as Imagined History: David Davidar's The House of Blue Mangoes -ANITA SINGH Contributors