The book makes a close and objective study of Jonson’s dramatic theory and practice re-lated to his comedies with a view to showing that Jonson is essentially a dramatic artist.
Accidental Death of an Anarchist, by the Nobel Laureate writer Dario Fo, is a modern classic play. A satire on police in Italy, it makes a significant contribution to theatre and drama. The book offers a detailed com-mentary and critical evaluation of the play.
Feminism is the most significant cultural and literary movement today. Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook is a major literary work that has contributed immensely to the area of feminism, highlighting women’s identity. The book offers a detailed commentary on the text.
The book focuses attention on some signifi-cant aspects of language & literature teaching such as grammar, phonology, teaching tech-niques, stylistics and approaches to litera-ture.
The present monograph enquires into the nature of Dr. F. R. Leavis’s view of the function of criticism and the concepts and criteria that he employs for a reasoned and consistent appreciation of literature. Such concepts and criteria are not applied in literary studies as......
The book deals with the fictional theories of two English critics, Arnold Kettle and Ray-mond Williams and the application of these theories to the three great English novels, namely, Wuthering Heights, Middlemarch and Tess of the D’Urbervilles.
The book comprises scholarly wide-ranging, critical papers on Shaw’s plays, especially Major Barbara, Man and Superman, Saint Joan and Arms and the Man.
The book makes a close and systematic ex-amination of Goldsmith’s comedies in the context of sentimental comedy which was a popular form of drama in the eighteenth cen-tury. This book is a study of the unsentimentalism of Goldsmith as a playwright.
The book demonstrates and describes the ways in which linguistic techniques can be applied to a literary text. A practical analysis of Greene’s style with reference to his three novels, namely The Power and the Glory, The Heart of the Matter and Doctor Fischer of Geneva,......