A Companion to Short Literary Essays

Author: Singh; Krishna Kant  

Publisher: Aadi Publications‎

Publication year: 2013

E-ISBN: 9789385484377

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9789382630074

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Keyword: 法律

Language: ENG

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The book deals with some of the important trends, issues, authors and works of English literature and Indian writing in English in the form of short literary essays. Right from the Elizabethan age to the modern age, there are many influencing topics which initiated literary revolution in different ages and the book rightly covers all related topics with the help of proper textual extracts, quotations of the critics and valuable remarks of the literary historians.

Chapter

2. Dramatic Quality in Everyman

3. Thomas More’s Utopia: A Unique Piece of Prose

4. Longinus: Theory of Sublimity

5. Tragic Conflict in Dr. Faustus

6. Marlowe’s Edward II as a Historical Tragedy

7. Shakespeare’s Macbeth: A Grim Tragedy of Ambition

8. William Shakespeare’s Macbeth as a Tragedy

9. Hamlet and His Problems

10. Comic Relief in Hamlet

11. Importance of Supernatural in Hamlet

12. The Tempest: The Theme of Colonialism

13. Sidney as a Sonneteer

14. ‘Come Sleep O Sleep’: A Critical Appreciation

15. ‘Loving in Truth’: A Critical Appreciation

16. Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist as a Comedy of Humours

17. Milton’s Lycidas

18. Milton’s Grand Style in Lycidas

19. John Donne’s ‘Goe, and Catche a Falling Starre’

20. John Donne’s ‘Death Be Not Proud’

21. John Donne’s ‘The Sunne Rising’

22. Herbert as a Metaphysical Poet

23. Herbert as a Religious Poet

24. John Dryden’s Plea for Dramatic Poetry

25. Dr. Johnson’s Liberal Classicism

26. Dr. Johnson’s ‘Preface to Shakespeare’

27. William Congreve’s The Way of the World as A Comedy of Manners

28. Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock

29. The Role of Supernatural in The Rape of the Lock

30. Realism in Defoe’s Moll Flanders

31. William Wordsworth’s Nature of Poetry

32. Wordsworth’s Theory of Poetic Diction

33. ‘Dejection: An Ode’: A Critical Appreciation

34. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: Coleridge’s Theme of Morality

35. Treatment of Supernatural in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

36. Symbolical and Allegorical Implication in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

37. S.T. Coleridge’s ‘Kubla Khan’

38. Shelley as a Poet of Nature

39. Shelley as a Lyric Poet

40. Platonism in Shelley’s Poetry

41. Adonais as a Pastoral Elegy

42. John Keats as a Sensuousness Poet

43. John Keats as an Ode Writer

44. Development of Thoughts in ‘Ode to the Nightingale’

45. Jane Austen as a Novelist

46. Walter Scott as a Historical Novelist

47. The Heart of Midlothian: A Novel of Human Justice

48. Browning’s Vision of Life or Optimism

49. Browning’s Obscurity

50. Characteristics of Browining’s Dramatic Monologues

51. Matthew Arnold as an Elegiac Poet

52. Matthew Arnold’s ‘The Scholar Gipsy’

53. Matthew Arnold’s ‘Requiescat’ — A Critical Appreciation

54. The Pre-Raphaelite Movement

55. Rossetti as a Pictorial Artist

56. The Blessed Damozel: A Critical Appreciation

57. Hopkins as a Religious Poet

58. Hopkins’s Obscurity and Sprung Rhythm

59. ‘Felix Randal’: A Critical Appreciation

60. ‘Carrion Comfort’: A Critical Appreciation

61. ‘Pied Beauty’: A Critical Appreciation

62. ‘Byzantium’: A Critical Appreciation

63. ‘No Second Troy’: A Critical Appreciation

64. T.S. Eliot’s ‘Three Voices of Poetry’

65. T.S. Eliot’s ‘What is Classic’

66. T.S. Eliot as a Poet

67. Tiresias: the Protagonist of The Waste Land

68. Chorus in T.S. Eliot’s Murder in Cathedral

69. J.C. Ransom as a Critic

70. J.C. Ransom’s ‘Poetry: A Note on Ontology’

71. Symbolism in D.H. Lawrence’s Women in Love

72. Old English

73. Modern English

74. Historical Linguistics

75. Socio-linguistics

76. Psycho-linguistics

77. Intonation

78. Gitanjali as a Devotional Poem

79. Tagore’s Imagery in Gitanjali

80. Kamala Das as Poetess

81. Ezekiel’s Contribution to Anglo–Indian Poetry

82. A.K. Ramanujan: Features of His Poetry

83. Raja Rao’s philosophy in The Serpent and the Rope

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