Literary Theories in Applications
Contents: Foreword. Preface. I: Theoretical explorations. 1. Beyond Theory/K.V. Raghupathi. 2. Needs and Possibilities of Indigenous Theories/Dev Vrat Sharma. 3. The Text and the Reader/Jiju Verghese. II: Indian Literary Theories. 4. Indian Intellectual Tradition: Aesthetics as Science and Philosophy of Fine Arts/Shrawan K. Sharma. 5. The Stage Representations of Assimilation/Differentiation Dichotomy – A study in the Selected Plays of Kalidasa: Malavikagnimitram/Jayshree Singh. III: Postcolonial Theories. 6. Contextualising Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger in Postcolonial Paradigm/Bhagabat Nayak. 7. Ethnic Women’s Discourses in a Postcolonial context – A Cross-cultural Study of Selected Works of Indo American, African American and Native American Writers/W.S. Kottiswari. 8. Myth, Morality and Colonisation/jyoti Rane. 9. Postcolonial and Postmodern Trends in the Works of Upamanyu Chatterjee/Monti Mazumdar. 10. Loss of Identity: Colonial Past and Global Present/Kiran Deep. 11. Karnad’s Tughlaq : An Aristotelian Protagonist/Vinita Goyal. 12. When Gandhi Came to Gorakhpur: An Entry into the Postcolonial India/Madhurima Nyati. IV: Feminist Theories. 13. Rejection of a False Society in Ibsen’s A Doll’s House/Umed Singh. 14. In between the Hijab and the Scarf : The Complex Pattern of Identity Formation in Arab-American Women’s Writings/Indrani Datta (Chaudhuri). 15. Heteronormativity and Homophobia: Gloria Naylor’s “The Two”/Eliza Joseph. 16. Performing Gender Issues : Evidence from Vijay Tendulkar’s Plays/Alpana Gupta. V: Eco-critical Theories. 17. Eco-critical Reading of Yann Martel’s Life of Pi/S.M. Gupta. 18. Eco-consciousness in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things/Amitabh Roy. VI: Psychoanalytical Theories. 19. Psychoanalytical Theories and Character Analysis: A study of Iris Murdoch’s A Severed Head/Cheena Puri. Index.
“The different approach of the book brings a fresh whiff of air into the corridors of literature. The book Literary Theories in Application is a collection of well researched papers bearing scholarship of the erudite from various colleges and universities of India. The essays concern with application, discussion and interrogation of critical theories.
Subdivided into six sections, the book begins with theoretical explorations of the critical scenario. The second section relates to the application of Indian literary theories. The third section is on postcolonial texts and theories. The fourth section is on feminist theories. The fifth and the sixth sections are on eco-critical and psychoanalytical theories.
The book is an attempt to cater to the needs of students as well as teachers of English.”(jacket)
