Great Western Thinkers

 by: R K Jha

ISBN 978-81-7977-491-5
Price: Rs. 56.00

The book Great Western Thinkers has enumerated the contribution of Plato, Machiavelli, Descartes, Locke, Rousseau, Hegel, Marx and Freud. These scholars belong to different ages and born in the various countries of western hemisphere. They differ in their thoughts radically but they are necessary for the enrichment and enhancement of human civilization. The ideal state of Plato cannot be compared with the state of Machiavelli. The notion of Marx is entirely opposite to Freud’s psycho analysis. But these Philosophers and thinkers have significant role to play in shaping the major trends in the field of learning and literature.

The language of this book is easy to comprehend for the beginners. The students will feel comfortable in understanding the contribution of these Philosophers in various fields.

       

         Forty Three years old Dr. Rabi Kumar Jha (1970) belongs to Maithili Brahmin family. He holds the degree of PhD from Banaras Hindu University (December 2000). Known for his literary acumen he had his education in Patna, Bhubaneswar and Varanasi. He has been serving in Sivasagar (Assam) since 1st November 1994. He has strong attachment with Durgapur (West Bengal) as his wife has been serving in Lafarge India. He believes in cultural synthesis and reformation in  literary criticism. At present he has been serving as Associate Professor and the Head of the Department of English (S.M.D. College, Charing, Sivasagar).

List of Contents:

PLATO: Republic

THE CONCEPT OF PHILOSOPHER KING

NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI: The Prince

CONCERNING MIXED PRINCIPALITIES (CHAPTER 3)

THAT WHICH CONCERNS OF THE ART OF THE WAR (CHAPTER 14)

CONCERNING THINGS FOR WHICH MEN, AND ESPECIALLY PRINCESS, ARE RAISED oR BLAMED (CHAPTER 15)

CONCERNING CRUELTY AND CLEMENCY, AND WHETHER IT IS BETTER TO BE lOVED THAN FEARED (CHAPTER 17)

Concerning the way in which Princes should keep faith (Chapter 18) 

That one should avoid being despised and hated (Chapter 19)               

RENE DESCARTES: Discourse on Method

MORALITY AND METHOD

THE ORIGIN OF GOOD SENSE

LAW AND ITS EXECUTION (CHAPTER II)

CODE OF MORALS (CHAPTER III)

CONCLUSION (CHAPTER IV)

JOHN LOCKE: The Nature of Language

COMMUNICATION : RULES AND DISCIPLINES  (CHAPTER II)

IMPERFECTION OF WORDS AND LANGUAGE  (CHAPTER IX)

J. J. ROUSSEAU: The Social Contract

CITIZEN

FORMS OF GOVERNMENT

J.W.F. HEGEL: The Philosophical History

Original History

Reflective History

Philosophical History

MARX AND ENGLES: The Communist Manifesto

SIGMUND FREUD: Leonardo da Vinci

THE IMPRESSIONS OF CHILDHOOD (Chapter 3)

PAINTING Of MONALISA (Chapter 4)

THE INFLUENCE OF LEONARDO’s FATHER (Chapter 5)

T.S. Eliot: HAMLET AND HIS PROBLEMS

An Analysis

by: S. Sulochana Rengachari

ISBN 978-81-7977-483-0

pp.: 36+4

Price: Rs. 30.00

The criticism of Thomas Stearns Eliot is essentially workshop criticism because it is a byproduct, a secondary result, of his creative work. He is considered the literary dictator of the twentieth century and a modern critic. “Hamlet and His Problems” was published in 1920, in his collection of essays on poetry and criticism, The sacred Wood. He was a strong influence on the School of New Criticism started by a group of American scholars during the earlier decades of the twentieth century. New Criticism stresses the dire need for textual analysis in criticism It is reminiscent of the adage “Trust the tale and not the teller”. Eliot observes in his seminal essay “Tradition and the Individual Talent”, that “honest criticism and sensitive appreciation” should be directed towards the text written by the writer and not the writer himself. He has followed the tenets of New Criticism in his essay “Hamlet and His Problems”. He dropped this composition from his collection of essays published after twentytwo years, in America. He explained that when he read the essay again he felt rather embarrassed because he opined that he had been inexperienced when he wrote it. However, the essay is quite significant as a piece of New Criticism.

List of Contents:

LIFE AND WORKS OF T. S. ELIOT
A SHORT SUMMARY OF “HAMLET AND HIS PROBLEMS”
PARAPHRASE AND MEANINGS
HAMLET AS AN ARTISTIC FAILURE
VIEWS OF STOLL AND J. M. ROBERTSON ON SHAKESPEARE’S HAMLET
ANALYZE T. S. ELIOT’S CRITICAL CONCEPT OF “OBJECTIVE CORRELATIVE”
CORIOLANUS AS SHAKESPEARE’S GREATEST TRAGEDY
“HAMLET AND HIS PROBLEMS” AS DESTRUCTIVE CRITICISM
WHY IS ELIOT’S ESSAY CONSIDERED IMPUDENT?
“HAMLET AND HIS PROBLEMS” AS NEW CRITICISM
QUESTIONS

Modern Literary Criticism and Contemporary Literary Theory

with GLOSSARY OF LITERARY THEORY





by: S.S. AGARWALLA


ISBN 978-81-7977-484-7

pp.: 196

Price: Rs. 80.00






Topics Covered:
Surrealism
Dadaism
Expressionism
Imagism
Impressionism
Existentialism
Genre Criticism
Realism
Absurdism
Russian Formalism
Ivor Armstrong Richards
Thomas Stearns Eliot
Frank Raymond Leavis (1895-1979)
William Empson
The New Criticism
The Chicago Critics
Myth Criticism/ Archetypal Criticism
Western Structuralism
Post-Structuralism
Modernism
Important theorists of Postmodernism
Marxism Criticism and Literary Theory
Feminism and Post Feminism
Psychoanalytic Criticism
Colonialism
Postcolonialism
The Subaltern Group of Writers
Magic Realism
New Historicism and Cultural Materialism
New Formalism
Archetypal Criticism
Glossary of Literary Theory

Aspects of Linguistics

by: N.S. SAHU

ISBN 978-81-7977-458-8

pp.: 320

Price: Rs. 132.00

I am glad to say that this book is a companion to the linguistic science prepared for the use of the postgraduate students of the linguistic science in Indian universities.

To ensure a better inter-relationship and sequence of the various linguistic concepts and hypotheses, the chapters in the present revised edition have been more systematically reorganised. And, I’m sure, the readers would find the book more useful, relevant to enhance their understanding of the linguistic science.

Because many users of the earlier editions welcomed the Parts dealing with the controversial study of the linguistic science, the same have been retained with a slight reordering of the subsequent chapters of the third edition. As the science of linguistics has completely revamped our notion of the English language, this revised edition shall acquaint its readers with the problems at all levels of language : phonology, morphology, lexicon, semantics (or semiology) syntax and language as a whole. These problems are, of course, common to all of the world linguistics, but the individual approaches made and treatments given to the various themes in the studies would perhaps be more inviting to the readers.

Over the past several years, linguistics has especially been occupied with questions of syntax and semantics. That is, linguistics explains these facts in different ways. As post-structuralism develops and explains from the late 1960s on, “deconstruction” appears to occupy an ever more distinctive place within this general movement. As a “mode” of textual theory and analysis, “deconstruction” subverts almost everything in the tradition, throwing to wind received ideas of the sign and language, the text the context, the author, the reader, the function of history, the work of interpretation and the forms of critical writing.

By the middle of 1970s, “semiotics” became a global discipline, a new megascience to encompass not only the fine arts but social sciences and several areas of the natural and physical sciences. As “Hermeneutics”, already cast as a minor branch of biblical studies, expanded its scope, and reached out to take in all manners and means of interpretative activity and theory. At certain point, “Hermeneutics” shares common interest and goals with semiotics, whereas semiotics remains structuralist at heart. It is not certain if hermeneutics preserves its methodological ties with “phenomenology”. That is, “semiotics” encompasses “hermeneutics” or vice-versa. And, in any case “deconstruction” could be absorbed by either or both of these transdisciplines. In chapter on “Semiology, Hermmeneutics, and Deconstruction”, I have attempted to highlight the relevance of these concepts as well.

Besides these, the reader will also find references to the work of many well-known linguists from other countries-an evidence to the significance of the exchange of ideas and to close affinities among various schools of science. And, despite innumerable inadequacies I’m quite optimistic to say that the book will surely help its reader to achieve his objectives.

From the PREFACE by the author.

LIST OF CONTENTS:
Reflections on Language
Language : A Characteristic Human Behaviour
Ideolect, Dialect and Language
Genesis of Language
Functions of Language
Linguistics and the Human Sciences
Phonology and Phonetics
Phonetics : Articulatory Phonetics
Acoustic Phonetics : Sound Between Mouth and Ear
Auditory Phonetics : Ear and Brain
Phonology : Its Description and Classification of Sounds
Macrosegment
Morphology
Notations
Chomsky’s Linguistic Theory
Syntax and Syntactic Structures
Aspects of the theory of Syntax
Linguistic Competence and Performance
Word
Phylogenetic Change
Morphophonemics
Advances in Linguistics : A Historical Background
Making of English Language
Semiology, Hermeneutics and Deconstruction
Structuralism and Functionalism
Linguistics and the Teacher of English
Aesthetics of ‘Name’ and ‘Meaning’
Linguistics and the Teaching of Literature
Generative Semantics and Social Interaction
Sociolingistics and the Acquisition of Meaning
   References for Further Readings
   Select Bibliography
   Notes
   Index of Subject

Manohar Malgonkar: A BEND IN THE GANGES

A Study


by: S.Z.H. Abidi


Price : Rs. 30.00
pp. : 72





List of Contents:

Introduction
Story Element in A Bend in the Ganges
 A Bend in the Ganges : A Commentary on Theme
The Revenge Motif in a  A Bend in the Ganges
 A Bend in the Ganges as a Partition Novel
Nataraja and Nemesis: Shiva Motif in  A Bend in the Ganges
Love and Sex in  A Bend in the Ganges
Portrait of Indian Life in  A Bend in the Ganges
   Bibliography

T.S. Eliot: THE LOVE SONG OF J. ALFRED PRUFROCK

An Analysis

by: S. Sulochana Rengachari



Price: Rs. 40.00
pp: 72
ISBN 978-81-7977-464-9

The Nobel Laureate Thomas Stearns Eliot has been called the literary dictator of the twentieth century. His poetry is essentially modern, blending emotion and thought to establish unification of sensibility. The theme, the failure of communication, started even in his early poems. Students have generally found it a little difficult to understand Eliot’s poetry and hence this little book of analysis. The intricate echo of multiple sources is outstanding in the later poems but the concept can be identified even in this comparatively early poem. Besides touching on Eliot’s life and works, the variegated influences on the artist, both British and European have also been expounded. He grasped numerous ideas from great writers like Dante, T.E. Hulme, Irving Babbitt, George Santayana, Remy de Gourmont, Imagists and Symbolists.

Eliot, like Henry James presents a world of genteel society portrayed from inside. He also views it with significant discernment. He treats the rift between man and woman which indicates the greater theme of the individual’s isolation. The theme is all-encompassing in the poem commencing with the “patient etherized upon a table” and concluding with the mermaids who will not “sing to me.” The book answers several queries like Prufrock’s dilemma, comic elements, Prufrock’s delusion, themes, modernity, irony and sarcasm, Prufrock’s problems and so on.

List of Contents:

The Age of T.S. Eliot
Life and Works
The Literary Works of Eliot
Title and Sources
Introduction to the Poem
Detailed Summary
Critical Analysis of the Poem
Notes, Meanings and Explanations
Character of Prufrock
Prufrock as a Typical Modern
Prufrock’s Problems
Objective Correlative in the Poem
Significance of the Epigraph
Dramatic and Interior Monologue
Major Themes
Eliot’s Theory of Poetry
Irony and Sarcasm
Imagery and Symbols in the Poem
Eliot’s Style in ‘Prufrock’
   Questions
   Select Bibliography

Jane Austen: PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

A Critical Study with Chapterwise Summary and Question Answers

by: Girish Saxena




ISBN 978-81-7977-460-1

Price: Rs. 60.00
pp.: 216


List of Contents:

Jane Austen’s Age

Jane Austen’s Life
A Brief Account of Her Works
Jane Austen’s Novels
Themes of Jane Austen’s Novels
Jane Austen’s Range
Plot Construction in the Novels of Jane Austen
Characterization in the Novels of Jane Austen
Humour and Irony in the Novels of Jane Austen
Jane Austen as a Realist
Jane Austen as a Moralist
Dramatic Nature of Jane Austen’s Novels
Classical Elements in Jane Austen’s Novels
Jane Austen’s Style
Jane Austen’s Contribution
Jane Austen’s Achievement and Place
Chapterwise Summary of  Pride and Prejudice
Character Sketches
Questions and Answers
Hints to Objective Questions
Critical Comments
Chapterwise summary in Hindi