The present thirteenth volume of Studies in Literature in English contains seventeen well-researched essays covering a wide range of authors and subjects across space and time. Starting with the good old Shakespeare, the essays cover a number of British canonical authors, including Coleridge, Shelley and Golding. Across the Atlantic eminent American authors like Henry James, Arthur Miller and Saul Bellow are given fresh look. Rohinton Mistry from Canada, Hermann Hesse, a German Nobel Laureate, and Bertolt Brecht of ‘epic theatre’ fame from Germany, V.S. Naipaul, the Nobel Laureate originally from India, and Pirandello, the Italian Nobel Laureate, are all treated with fine critical insight. It is hoped that students, scholars and general readers of English literature will find this anthology both useful and enjoyable even more than the earlier volumes of Studies in Literature in English.

Table of Contents:
1. Shakespeare’s Marina and Perdita: Women or Symbols? – Nijukta Padhi 2. Multiple Facets of Love in the Plays of Kalidasa and Last Plays of Shakespeare – Sheela Rani Khare 3. The Gossamer Web: S.T. Coleridge’s Dream Territory – N. Sharada Iyer 4. P.B. Shelley: The Dreamer of Dreams – N. Sharada Iyer 5. The Humanist Element in Golding’s Lord of the Flies and The Inheritors – Rudra Prasad Mahto 6. Henry James’s The American as a Critique of European Life – Ramesh Rathod 7. Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman as a Psychological Tragedy – Ramesh Rathod 8. The Bellow Hero: In Quest of Life’s Meaning – Deepa Vanjani 9. From Partition to Babri Masjid: A Review of Political Motifs in Rohinton Mistry’s Novels – J.G. Duresh 10. Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha: A Recreation of the Buddha’s Life – B.Y. Naik 11. The Mystic Masseur: Tragedy of Exilement Seen Comically – Tamali Neogi 12. Quest for Identity in V.S. Naipaul’s Half a Life – D.S. Kaintura 13. A Feminist Reading of A Doll’s House – Farah Jamal 14. Bertolt Brecht’s The Caucasian Chalk Circle: As an Absurd Play – Ramesh Rathod 15. Luigi Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author as an Absurd Play – B.Y. Naik 16. Towards Autonomy in the English Teaching Classroom in India – Krushna Chandra Mishra 17. Survey of English Studies in North East India: Defining the Approaches – Krushna Chandra Mishra Contributors