Mastering Western texts
Subtitle: essays on literature and society for A.N. Kaul
By: edited by Sambudha Sen.
Contributors: Sen, Sambudha.; Sen, A. N.
Publisher: Permanent Black
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Delhi
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
Subjects: Literature -- History and criticism.; English literature -- History and criticism.; American literature -- History and criticism.
Description: Festshcrift honoring A.N. Kaul, critic and teacher of Western literature; comprises contributed articles on Western literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Historic readings and the cutting edge of laughter : re-viewing A.N. Kaul's Comic agon, an essay without footnotes / Ahmer Nadeem Anwer; title: A.N. Kaul's Theory of the Critical Romance : the repudiation of an American ideology / Tapan Basu; title: South to a very old place : Toni Morrison's Song of solomon / Madhu Dubey; title: Berak her will, and bruise no bone sir : colonial and sexual mastery in Fletcher's The island princess / Ania Loomba; title: Mercantil gothic : the case of Lillo's The London merchant / Suvir Kaul; title: The radicals, the press, and the law, 1764-1767 / Brijraj Sngh; title: Dickens, Thackeray, and the "Lanuage of radicalism" / Sambudha Sen; title: Shadows of futurity : the uses of abstractness in Shelly's poetry / Shirshendu Chakrabarti; title: Sydney Owenson, romantic orientalism, colonial resistance / Gautam Chakravarty; title: Bangla sahitya and the vicissitudes of Bengali identity in the latter half of the Nineteenth century / Pradip Kumar Datta; title: Ireland, India, and the poetics of internationalism / Gauri Viswanathan; title: Tragic love and cultural conventions : reading The well of loneliness in India and in the USA / Ruth Vanita; title: Rethinking the relations between literature and society : Jonathan Swift's Tale of a tub and A.N. Kaul's lietrary criticism / Rashmi Bhatnagar.