Studies In Literature In English (Vol. 9)

About the Book

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 essays, one 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.