Literature and Theory

Acknowledgements

List of Contributors

Introduction - Literature and Theory: Contemporary Signposts and Critical Surveys

SK SAGIR ALI

PART I

Myth Criticism

1 Portrait of Mythical and Archetypal Colour: A Reading of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

DEBADITYA MUKHOPADHYAY

PART II

Poststructuralism and Deconstruction

2 Emily Dickinson's "Nature": A Poetic Metaphoricity and the Power of a Poststructuralist Hermeneutic

MOUSUMI GUHA BANERJEE

3 Narrating the "New City/ies": Urban Studies in Literature and Cityscapes in Graphic Novels

SUBASHISH BHATTACHARJEE

4 "To Save the Tale From the Artist": A Deconstructive Reading of Lawrence's Sons and Lovers

SANKAR PRASAD SINGHA

5 Orpheus's Gaze and the Blanchotian Literature of the Unword: Locating the Ethical Finitudes of the Il y a in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot

SWAYAMDIPTA DAS

PART III

Psychoanalytic Criticism

6 The Whore and the Virgin: Sexual Non-Rapport in the Poetry of T.S. Eliot and Dialectics of the Obsessional Subject

DEEPTESH SEN

7 Truth in Literature: Lacan's Joyce and the Question of Applied Psychoanalysis

DIPANJAN MAITRA

8 Rewriting the Psychotic Other of Author-Function in Peter Carey's My Life as a Fake 93

ARKA CHATTOPADHYAY

PART IV

Queer Theory

9 "He Had Beauty, Though": The Queerness of Ruskin Bond's Delhi Is Not Far

NILADRI R. CHATTERJEE

PART V

Reader-Response Criticism

10 The Problematic of Reading: The Intra-Textual Readers in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead

MAMATA SENGUPTA

PART VI

New Historicism

11 Revisiting the Rushdiean peeling, fragmenting palimpsest called Pakistan: A New Historicist-Feminist Approach

NASIMA ISLAM

PART VII

Marxism

12 Marxism and Literary Thought: A View

ANAND PRAKASH

PART VIII

Postcolonialism

13 "This Is Not Knowledge; This Is Vanity": Phrenology and the Mimicry of Western Science in Amitav Ghosh's The Circle of Reason

SAKOON SINGH

PART IX

Cultural Study

14 Politics of Purity and Pollution: A Study of Cultural Voyeurism in Kanthapura

SK SAGIR ALI

15 Abuse, Coercion, and Power in Octavia Butler's "Bloodchild"

SHILADITYA SEN

PART X

Translation Study

16 Intermediality and Translation: Pedagogical Possibilities

TUTUN MUKHERJEE

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Literary Theory;Critical Theory;Application of Theory;Literature and Theory;Contemporary Theory;Textual Analysis;Joyce;Lacan;Emily Dickinson;Intermediality and Translation;Octavia Butler Bloodchild;Kanthapura;Amitav Ghosh The Circle of Reason;Rushdie;Marxism and Literary Thought;Leslie Marmon Silko Almanac of the Dead;Peter Carey My Life as a Fake;T.S. Eliot poetry;Samuel Beckett and Waiting for Godot;Graphic Novels;poem;Nature;Young Man;A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man;Fake;Follow;Hold;Vice Versa;Jacques Derrida's Thinking;Eliot Poetry;Myth Criticism;Prophecies;Sexual Non-rapport;Seminar XXIII;Courtly Love;Mahesh Dattani;Tagore's Short Stories;Lacan's Reading;Muriatic Acid;Sexual Rapport;Literary Thought;Gandhian Ideology;Burning Bank;Levinasian Notion;Native American Ancestors;Beckett's Text;Radical Alterity