Studies in American Literature

Contents: Preface. 1. The American tradition of poetry and Robert Frost/Gajendra Kumar. 2. Dehumanizing forces in modern civilization: a study of alienation and affirmation in The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire/Vinod Kumar Maheshwari. 3. Arthur Miller’s handling of the problem of guilt/Gunjan Agarwal. 4. The Bell Jar and Tongues of Stone : a comparative study/N.B. Masal. 5. Philip Roth’s Goodbye, Columbus : a critique of American Philistinism/C.C. Mishra. 6. Hemingway, the feminist/Susheela Beniwal. 7. Theme of Nada in Ernest Hemingway’s major novels/Mary Mohanty. 8. The Torrents of Spring and anxiety of influence/Rama Kundu. 9. Symbolism in The Sun Also Rises/Ishteyaque Shams. 10. They are not meant for defeat : an appraisal of the Hemingway Heroes in A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Old Man and the Sea/Amiya Kumar Patra. 11. Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea : a philosophical discourse upon the affirmation and adventure/Gajendra Kumar. 12. The Old Man and the Sea : an archetypal perspective/Mohit K. Ray.

The volume includes discussions on the American tradition of poetry as reflected in and enriched by the poetry of Robert Frost, then moving through Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Sylvia Plath and Philip Roth and finally focuses on Ernest Hemingway.

Seven highly perceptive studies by eminent scholars on different aspects of Hemingway offer substantial meat as much for Hemingway scholars as for anybody interested in this great Nobel Laureate of keen active interest in the celebration of life in diverse ways.

Anybody who is interested in American literature will find this book extremely interesting. Teachers, scholars, and students of American literature will also find the book useful because of the authors masterly handling of some major American writers and texts. (jacket)