The Spectrum of Literature : Experiments in Exploration

O.P. Mathur

ISBN 10: 8176257192 / ISBN 13: 9788176257190

Published by Sarup Book Pub, 2011

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Contents Dedication Acknowledgements Preface I Introductory values in literature 1 A Beautiful Mind the substratum of values in English Studies II Poetry 1 Sarojini Naidu the Indian nightingale who sings to the world 2 The poetry of IK Sharma visions and voices 3 Syed Ameeruddin?s poetry visions of a pilgrimage to the summits of deliverance 4 English poetry around the nightingale myth reality and imagination III Drama 5 The closet drama of the romantics then and now 6 Beatrice Cenci Feminity and feminism  7 The dramatic element in Keats?s poetry with special reference to his shorter poems 8 Tagore?s major plays and the fragrance of his Gitanjali 9 Basavaraj Naikar?s A Dreamer of Freedom a powerful Indian English closet play IV Fiction 10 Rafiz Zakaria?s The Price of Power The loss of integrity 11 Alexander Raju?s The Haunted Man The emergency in a Palanquin of dreams 12 Amitav Ghosh?s The Shadow Lines an intimacy with elsewhere 13 Amitav Ghosh?s The Shadow Lines A relativistic approach 14 Salman Rushdie?s The Enchantress of Florence a stereoscopic vision of man?s victory over the intricacies of life and reality 15 Aravind Adiga?s Between the Assassinations a multi-coloured novel in embryo 16 Society and the individual in the short stories of Basavaraj NaikarThe book by a well-known literary critic OP Mathur presents some stray sparks of the author?s critical fervour thrown up on variety of writers and works of different times About some of these essays earlier published generally in a different form or version mention has been made in acknowledgements An impressive majority of the essays written recently include new approaches which might be interest to readersThe opening essay deals with values that like latent currents underlie all literature The bulk of the other essays have a wide coverage - from the British Romantic poets to their Indian counterparts Sarojini Naidu and Rabindranath Tagore The essays on modern writers of importance explore the works of Amitav Ghosh and the more recent works of Salman Rushdie and Arvind AdigaThe other established or emerging Indian authors include Basavaraj Naikar IK Sharma Syed Ameeruddin and Alexander Raju By the way one of the essays focuses on a winged creature the poor nightingale which has inspired a host of English poets from the medieval to the modern in remarkably different waysThe author is glad to present this book to his esteemed readers and prays to the almighty to bless his continuing literary efforts 192 pp.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Spectrum of Literature : Experiments in Exploration
• Publisher: Sarup Book Pub
• Publication Date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 8176257192
• ISBN 13: 9788176257190