Contents: 1. Jacques Lacan and the Recontextualizing of Dhvani/M. Sivaramkrishna. 2. Silences in Shakespeare's plays/Abhijit Sen. 3. Quest for self-realizing in T.S. Eliot's plays/Amuktha Malyada and Sumitra Kukreti. 4. The novel with binary facets: dualistic, parallel, juxtaposed themes in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone/Shree Deepa. 5. Mcteague and native son: a comparative study/Sobha Chattopadhyay. 6. Towards a new community and cultural idiom: a note on Saul Bellow's Henderson the rain king/P. Laxminarayana. 7. Saul Bellow and his editors: the case of Herzog/Sukhbir Singh. 8. Satire as inquiry: a study of John Updike's Rabbit Tetralogy/T. Suneeti. 9. "I Am She: I Am He": Androgyny in Adrienne Rich's poetry/V. Rajasekhar. 10. A 'Nobel' fate: Orhan Pamuk's Istanbul/A.V. Ashok. 11. Beauty of Hozho in Morris's from the glittering world/Beerendra Pandey. 12. Creating a space of one's own: a note on early Indian English Poetry/Rama Nair. 13. Search for roots in the poetry of A.K. Ramanujan/Annie Pothen. 14. Evolution of Indian philosophic prose in English/Sumita Roy. 15. Shifting Images of Woman in Anita Desai's cry, the Peacock/Sushila Rathore and Meenakshi Raman. 16. Theme and structure in Shashi Deshpande's Moving on (2004)/V.R. Badiger. 17. Parent-child relationship in Caribbean and African Literature in the Postcolonial Period/Sangita T. Ghodake. 18. Migration--a trope of autobiography in the select works of Bharati Mukherjee and Rohinton Mistry/Baishali Mitra. 19. Kolla - ee - gatti - thenemi? The Hidden Springs of the Nationalist Movement/G. Thirupathi Kumar. 20. Repositioning history: continuities in Islamic Tradition/Munir. 21. Facing the existentialist challenge: the secular mysticism of Clarice Lispector's an Apprenticeship or the book of delights/Syed Mujeebuddin. 22. Teaching and researching English Literature here and now: some confessions and Conjectures/Ananya Dutt Gupta. 23. Overt and covert dominances Toni Morrison's the Bluest Eye and Gabrielle Roy's Windflower/Anurag Chauhan. 24. Scope of using computer in teaching English in the Polytechnics of Assam/Mamun A. Barbhuiya. 25. Feminist literary criticism: a voice of protest/Tasneem Anjum. 26. Mulk Raj Anand's Gauri as a novel of protest/Madhavi Sondkar. 27. English in Indian classrooms: acquisition or learning?/S. Vishnupriya. 28. Protest against caste system in Bhabani Bhattacharya's He Who Rides the Tiger/Sudhir Nikam. 29. Gurubhyoh Namah! Prof. B. Gopal Rao/Shree Deepa.
"The context of the present volume is the occasion of the superannuating of Prof. B. Gopal Rao, Head Department of English, Osmania University, Hyderabad, A.P. India. The professor's own teachers, brilliant academics from different parts of the country, young scholars, colleagues in the department and may of his research scholars who are now teachers in different universities and colleges have all come forward to write for this volume. The spectrum is as vast as it is imposing -- ranging from essays on theoreticians such as Lacan to British, American, Postcolonial and Indian English Literatures -- the volume is a sumptuous feast for the literary sensibility." (jacket)
