Contents: Introduction. 1. Alternative communities: Utopia and Dystopia in Massinger and Fletcher's The Sea Voyage/Julie Sutherland. 2. Three men in the boat of damnation--Dr. Faustus, Macbeth and Mistah Kurtz/V.M. Madge. 3. Closet Drama: the romantic poets as dramatists/O.P. Mathur. 4. Why Shylock?/Sudeshna Kar Barua. 5. Magic realism and dialogism in Macbeth and the Tempest: a postmodernist consideration/Ketaki Datta. 6. A critical study of the title of Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts as a signpost for the meaning of the text/Meenakshi Raman. 7. Medieval Christian ideas and women: aspects of Middle English Poetry/Partha Kumar Mukhopadhyay. 8. Apollo's Prophets: Michael Drayton's Creation of Poetic Personae/Sukanya Dasgupta. 9. Mighty Prophet Seer Blest/N. Sharada Iyer. 10. Ode to a nightingale: an exploration in relation to Keat's Life/D.C. Chambial. 11. Lucrezia Del Fede--The Arch-Femme Fatale/Veana Tambe. 12. Elements or social concern and absurdity in the non-sense poetry of the late--Victorian Period/Sreeradha Banerjee. 13. Social critique in Dickens and Reynolds: a comparative study/Anuradha Mazumder. 14. Marlow in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness/B.S. Korde. 15. Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness--a postcolonial reading/Asit K. Biswas. 16. Tess: "Wronged Innocent" or "Little Harlot"?/Rituparna Datta Roy. 17. Coetzees's Youth and Dicken's David Copper field: an experiment in time and space/Ketaki Dutta. 18. Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist: anatomy of crime, criminal and social problems in Nineteenth Century (Victorian) England/Sutapa Bhattacharya. 19. A study of the self in the novels of the Bronte Sisters/Piyali Das. 20. Joyce's style and techniques in Dubliners/Tapati Talukdar. 21. Development of renaissance of humanism/Tisha Roy. 22. Wish-fulfillment de-eroticizes and de-sublimes instinctual urges: The Play Streetcar Named Desire by Tennesse Williams/Jayshree Singh. 23. Travelogues and their destinations/Debarati Datta. Index.
"In recent times critics are found exploring various aspects of English Literature in the light of some modern critical theories like post-modernism, structuralism and post-colonialism for bringing out the underlying shades of meanings of the texts comparable to spectrums with multiple appearances and appeals. This book of twenty three critical articles on literary woks of English Literature studies their merits as literary creations from various angles and perspective some of which embrace the critical theories prevalent in our time. The articles penned by eminent academicians and scholars attempt to bring into focus some notable works of various genres like drama, poetry, novel and prose-writings, and in the process the critics have thoroughly explored some famous works of Marlowe, Shakespeare, Fletcher, Massinger, Drayton, Wordsworth, Keats, Dickens and Joyce for offering their insightful discourses on several aspects of a literature with a rich heritage.
This Anthology thus expects to engage the interests of scholars, students and teachers in the rich web of English Literature radiating delightful spectrums that demand constant attention and evaluations from all." (jacket)
