Studies in Literature in English (Hardcover)

Starting chronologically with Christopher Marlowe's classic play Doctor Faustus, which is ever amenable to fresh interpretation, the essays take us to the shadowy world of Othello, the anti-materialist stand of Ruskin, the bizarre world of Kurtz in Conrad's archetypal novel, Heart of Darkness, the Theater of the Absurd and the absurd world of Waiting for Godot, the complexities of the novels of Greene, and enigmatic world of Da Vinci Code. The essays then open up new vistas of the world of the American O'Neill and the Canadian stalwarts like Margaret Atwood, George Ryga and Rohinton Mistry. After an encounter with the Indian trilogy of Naipaul the book moves on to Germany and examines Bertolt Brecht's famous play, Mother Courage and Her Children. The essay on Tagore's Hungry Stone illustrates the expert handling of a critical theory, while the last essay is on the much debated Reader Response Theory. Since most of the essays address authors and texts prescribed in the university syllabus, both the teachers and the students of literature in English will find this anthology interesting and useful. General readers who are interested in literature in English will also have a delightful aesthetic experience in going through the essays included in this anthology.