English Literature of the East and the West : Critical Assessments
Contents: Preface. 1. Marlowe\'s Dr. Faustus: A play of Vedantic philosophy/Amar Nath Prasad. 2. Imaginative freedom and intellectual tyranny: an approach to William blake/Ajay Kumar Srivastava. 3. T.S. Eliot as a ceaseless versifier: a tribute to the Nobel Laureate/Ashok Kumar. 4. T.S. Eliot: cessation of desires/Srikant Singh. 5. The waste land: a social criticism through religious myths/Sunil Kumar Verma. 6. Gloomy greeneland versus glimmering light: a critical study/Madhur Kumar. 7. Claiming voice: the fictional world of M.R. Anand and Arundhati Roy/Kanupriya. 8. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala/Mallikarjun Patil. 9. Anita Desai: a painter of the inner world/R.P. Lokhande. 10. Theme of riots in Salman Rushdies Midnights children/S.I. Noorani. 11. Women in the novels of Manju Kapur/Madhu Shalini. 12. Arundhati Roy\'s The God of Small Things: an experiment in language/Mallikarjun Patil. 13. Cultural alienation in Bharati Mukherjees Jasmine and The Tigers daughter/Shraddha Dubey. 14. A feminist thrust in Mahesh Dattanis Tara/R.K. Mishra. 15. Voice of feminine agony in Vijay Tendulkars Silence The Court is in Session: a Dilemma of modern life/Priya Bajaj. 16. Portrayal of women in Namita Gokhales Paro/Sadhana Pandey and Kavita Dubey. 17. Aravind Adigas The White Tiger: A Kaleidoscope of Life\'s binaries/P.K. Choudhary. 18. Basavaraj Naikars light in the House: a novel of magic realism and cultural synthesis/Kunjo Singh. 19. Natural versus probable: negation of lesbianism in Rita Garg\'s Precursor of love/Parul Tyagi. Index.
English Literature of the East and the West: Critical Assessments is a modest attempt to assess and elucidate the prominent authors of Britain and India. All the articles contributed by various writers and scholars from different parts of India aim at discussing critically and analytically the various aspects of the writers. The book contains research papers on Christopher Marlowe, William, Blake T.S. Eliot, Graham Greene, M.R. Anand, R.P. Jhabvala, Anita Desai, Salman Rushdie, Manju Kapur, Arundhati Roy, Bharati Mukherjee, Mahesh Dattani, Vijay Tendulkar, Namita Gokhale, Aravind Adiga, B.S. Naikar and Rita Garg.
The book it is hoped will certainly get a warm reception in the hands of the connoisseurs of literature in general and the students and research scholars in particular. (jacket)
