The present anthology of critical essays on Twentieth Century English Literature seeks to put together the body of writing — criticism, poetry, fiction, short-story, — in England, America, Australia, Africa and India in the present age, to discover how, despite its seeming divergence and dissimilarities, it falls into a broad pattern with regard to the choice of themes and formal strategies. The essays included are theoretical, com¬parative and exigetical, expounding move¬ments like Modernism and Post-Modernism; critical perspectives like the Scientifico-Psychological Approach and its practical application, and critiques of T.S. Eliot, Thomas Hardy, E.M. Forster, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Evelyn Waugh, G.B. Shaw, Harold Pinter, Scott Fitzgerald, John Steinbeck, Wole Soyinka, Manohar Malgonkar, Nayantara Sahgal, C.J. Koch and Frank Moorhouse. The anthology reveals ‘the family re¬semblance’ in twentieth century English literature irrespective of geographic and cultural barriers, reinforcing the view that in the ‘global village’ that the world has become, literature in English all over the world in the modern context has come to assume the form of a community-discourse.

Table of Contents:
1. Twentieth Century Literature in English — An Overview —Manmohan K. Bhatnagar 2. Postmodernism —The New Intellectual Perspective —Qaiser Zoha Alam 3. The Early Eliot As Critic : Genesis of a Conceptual Dilemma —P.K. Rajan 4. The Scientifico-Psychological Approach to Shakespeare —Sunil Kumar Sarker 5. Hamlet’s Existential Neurosis —Sunil Kumar Sarker 6. “The Mourning Mother” : A Fresh Look at Hardy’s Poems —Rama Kundu 7. Mysticism and Eliot’s Four Quartets —A.N. Dhar 8. The Road From Colonus —A Quest for the Ideal of Integrated Personality —Najma Mahmood 9. E.M. Forster : In Search of A Golden Mean —D.K. Chakravorty 10. Myth as Structural Principle in James Joyce’s Portrait —Indrani Haldar 11. The Waves : A Poetical Novel in Search for the Mysteries of the Self —Najma Mahmood 12. Isolation and Community in Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited —Shelley Walia 13. The Playwright as a thinker —A study of George Bernard Shaw —Shyam S. Agarwalla 14. Communication through Silences and Pauses in Harold Pinter’s Plays —Sanjay Kumar 15. Parents and Grandparents in Scott Fitzgerald —Attia Abid 16. The Chosen People in the Promised Land : The Allegorical Structure of The Grapes of Wrath —P. Balaswamy 17. The Conflict between Tradition and Modernity in The Lion and the Jewel —Basavaraj S. Naikar 18. Novel as Political Chronicle —A study of Manohar Malgonkar’s A Bend in the Ganges —Manmohan K. Bhatnagar 19. “How to Stem the Rot? —Nayantara Sahgal’s Prescription for Social Change” —Manmohan K. Bhatnagar 20. C.J. Koch’s Feminine Perspective —F.A. Inamdar 21. Australian Short Story and Frank Moorhouse : A Retrospective —Pradeep Trikha