The twenty-one essays that constitute this Volume cover a wide range of authors and texts related to the literature in English. Starting chronologically with the good old Shakespeare, the perpetual source of research and inspiration for new critical approaches, the essays take us round the world of Macbeth and Miranda, The Duchess of Malfi, Milton’s Comus, the novels of Joyce and Lawrence, the poetry of Shelley, Keats and Dickinson, and T.S. Eliot. The essays then open up new vistas of the world of the makers of American drama: Eugene O’Neill, Arthur Miller and Edward Albee. We move on to the world of Africa through studies of Things Fall Apart and Kongi’s Harvest. Two essays present the world of Commonwealth poetry and its problems and prospects. No less interesting are the essays on some major critical issues: postmodernism, problems of interpretation, theory of novel, juvenile delinquency in the fictional world, and the dialectics of mankind and sex. 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 an absorbing aesthetic experience in going through the essays included in this anthology.

Table of Contents:
1. The Criminal as a Tragic Hero in Macbeth BIDYA NATH JHA 2. The Ideal Woman Miranda –NIJUKTA PADHI 3. The “Absolute Marriage” in The Duchess of Malfi –TIRTHANKAR DAS PURKAYASTHA 4. “Dazzling Spells into the Spongy Air”: Temptation in Milton’s Comus –SUSHEEL KUMAR SHARMA 5. The Portrayal of Women in Joyce and Lawrence –RUDRA PRASAD MAHTO 6. Shelley’s Satirical Strains in Queen Mab and Feelings of a Republican on the Fall of Bonaparte –ASHISH GUPTA and G.A. GHANSHYAM 7. A Comparative Study of Death Wish in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson and John Keats –BINOD MISHRA 8. “The Voice of This Calling”: T.S. Eliot’s Views on Poetry as Reflected in His Poems –SAHADEO CHOUGULE 9. O’Neill’s The Hairy Ape as a Reflection of Contemporary Society –T.M.J. INDRA MOHAN 10. Theatre of the Absurd –N. SHARADA IYER 11. Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf and The Theatre of Absurd –KALPANA PUROHIT 12. Symbolism in Miller’s All My Sons –AMAR NATH PRASAD 13. Father and Fatherland in Things Fall Apart –T.K. NANDAKUMARAN 14. Kongi’s Harvest: A Political Satire–BASAVARAJ NAIKAR 15. Aesthetic Constructs of Ecological Imperialism: Thematic Affinities in Contemporary Indo- Anglian and English-Canadian Poetry –ANVAR SADHATH 16. Postmodernism: A Synoptic View –T.M.J. INDRA MOHAN 17. Impasse in the Act of Interpretation: A Postmodern Mechanism –ANAND B. KULKARNI 18. The Meaning of Meaning: Elucidating Stephen Knight’s ‘What with the Rain’ –C.R. MITTAL 19. Novel Theory: The Western Perspective –GAJENDRA KUMAR 20. The Theme of Juvenile Delinquency in the Fictional World –EAMI MATHEW 21. Mankind and Sex: A Dialectics –MALLIKARJUN PATIL Contributors