About Author:
Amar Nath Dwivedi, born in 1943 and educated at the University of Allahabad, has been teaching graduate and postgraduate classes since 1965, presently at the University of Allahabad, where he is a Professor in English. A recipient of State Bursary for four years (1961-65), he was awarded Teachers’ Research Grant by the ASRC (Hyderabad) in 1972. He was awarded Ph.D. in 1975 on his dissertation “Indian Thought and Tradition in T.S. Eliot’s Poetry,” which was later published in both India and Austria with a Foreword by Prof. Grover Smith of the Duke University, U.S.A. Dr. Dwivedi has published about a dozen books and fifty-five research papers and articles so far. His articles and papers have appeared in such prestigious journals and periodicals as WLWE (U.S.A.), Explicator (U.S.A.), JSAL (U.S.A.), Reviews Journal (Austr.), The Aryan Path, Indian Literature
and The Banasthali Patrika. His
translations of Hindi poetry have appeared in Voices of Emergency (edited by
Prof. John O. Perry, 1982) and in The Poetry of R.L. Khandelwal ‘Tarun’ (1990). Dr. Dwivedi is listed in the International Who’s Who (“Men of Achievement” and “Register of Intellectuals”) of Cambridge, U.K. in the Book of Honour published by the A.B.I., Inc., Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S.A. and in the International Who’s Who of Contemporary Achievement of Cambridge shire, England. He has participated in a number of national seminars and conferences, and has delivered a talk and recited his poems over the A.I.R. He is on the board of advisers for the literary journals, Canopy, The Quest and The Vedic Path; co-editor of Journal of Contemporary Literature and the
General Editor of the Indian Writers Series for M/s B.R.P.C., New Delhi.

Table of Contents:
Vol. I 1. Indian Poetry in English 2. The Poetry of Aru Dutt 3. Toru Dutt and Her Poetry 4. R.N. Tagore as a Poet 5. Sri Aurobindo, the Poet 6. Sarojini Naidu’s Poetry : A Thematic Study 7. Toru Dutt and Sarojini Naidu : A Comparative Approach 8. Imagery in Nissim Ezekiel’s Later Poetry 9. Theme and Form in A.K. Ramanujan’s Poetry 10. The ‘Tongue in English Chains’ : The Poetry of R. Parthasarathy 11. Kamala Das as a Poetic Artist 12. Beyond ‘Sighs and Thighs’ : The Poetry of Monika Varma 13. Between Two Worlds : The Poetry of Margaret Chatterjee 14. The Poetry of Syed Amanuddin : A Study in Diction and Varsification 15. K.N. Daruwalla : The Painter of Rural Landscape 16. Shiv K. Kumar’s Poetry : A Thematic Study 17. The Poetry of Arun Kolatkar : A Study in Images and Symbols 18. Suniti Namjoshi — Art and Artifice in Her Work 19. The Changing Pattern of Love : The Contemporary Scene 20. Irony as Technique in Some ‘New’ Indo-English Poets Vol.II 1. Indian Fiction in English : Retrospect and Prospect 2. The Narrative Technique of Kamala Markandaya 3. “The Golden Honeycomb” : A Critical Appraisal 4. The Historian as a Novelist : Manohar Malgonkar 5. ‘The Presence of Two Cultures’ : East-West Encounter in the Novels of B. Rajan 6. The Dark Dancer : A Critique 7. Failure And Frustration : A Study of Anita Desai’s In Custody 8. The Novels of Arun Joshi : A Critical Study 9. The Novels of Michael Chacko Daniels 10. Kamala Das’s Alphabet of Lust (1976) : An Appraisal 11. Contemporary Indian-English Short Story : An Overview 12. The Serpent in the Rope : Symbolism in Raja Rao’s Kanthapura 13. Farrukh Dhondy’s Bombay Duck : A Critical Analysis 14. The Hub of The Wheel : Recurring Metaphors in Shashi Deshpande’s Novels 15. Shashi Deshpande’s That Long Silence (’88) : A Feminist Reading 16. Reversing the Gear : A Critique of The God of Small Things 17. Setting the Scale Straight : Socio-Political Concerns in Arundhati Roy’s Fiction