An Approach to American Literature

by N.S. Sahu

ISBN 81-7977-096-6

Price: Rs. 175.00

pp. 400


Studies in The Writer's Craft

List of Contents


TRANSCENDENTALISM

RALPH WALDO EMERSON’S VISION OF NATURE, ART AND LIFE
HENRY DAVID THOREAU AND THE NEW CRITICISM

MORAL AND SPIRITUAL CONCERNS
EDGAR ALLAN POE: THE POET AS AN ARTIST, CRITIC AND THINKER
WALT WHITMAN, THE WORLD POET
HERMAN MELVILLE: A MAJOR ARTIST
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE’S QUEST FOR THE USABLE PAST, AND SYMBOLIC BUT ETHICAL IDEALISM

HUMOUR AND HUMANISM
MARK TWAIN, THE ARTIST
THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN: MARK TWAIN’S PLEA FOR SOCIAL CONCERNS

CONFRONTATION OF THE ‘SELF’ WITH THE ‘OTHERNESS’ IN OUTER, SPATIAL WORLD
EMILY DICKINSON AS A POET OF LOVE, AND BEAUTY
HENRY JAMES : A PROPHET OF AMERICAN INNOCENCE

REBEL
ROBERT FROST : A POET OF ETERNAL THEMES
‘MAN’ AND ‘TRADITION’ IN EUGENE O’NEILL’S PLAYS
LORE OF JEWISHNESS IN MAXWELL ANDERSON
IRONY AND PARADOX IN MAXWELL ANDERSON’S PLAYS
“SATURDAY’S CHILDREN” : A PLAY WITH THE THEME OF CONTEMPORANEITY
SATURDAY’S CHILDREN: A QUEST FOR FREEDOM
THERE SHALL BE NO NIGHT: A DRAMA OF SOCIO-POLITICAL DISINTEGRATION

TRIAL OF THE ‘SELF’
WILLIAM FAULKNER: A TYPICAL CREATIVE WRITER
ERNEST HEMINGWAY: AN ADVOCATE OF THE ‘LOST GENERATION’
T. S. ELIOT’S SENSE OF ‘HISTORY’ AND ‘TIME’

ART AND ARTIFICE
T. S. ELIOT AND HIS CRITICAL CANON
DEATH OF A SALESMAN: A POINT IN CASE ABOUT AMERICAN DREAM
‘BLACK HUMOR’: A NEW PERSECPTIVE IN HUMOUR

QUEST FOR IDENTITY
DEATH OF A SALESMAN: A PLAY ABOUT SUCCESS-MYTH
THE CRUCIBLE: A COMMENT ON ‘FAIR TRIAL’
IRONY AND HUMOUR IN “WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?”

THEME OF ALIENATION
EDWARD ALBEE, THE NIHILIST
SAUL BELLOW: A VOICE IN MODERNISM
SAUL BELLOW’S “THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH”: A STUDY IN HOPELESS NIHILISM