Literature and Theory

Sk Sagir Ali is Assistant Professor at the Department of English, Midnapore College (Autonomous), West Bengal, India. His published works include the edited book Religion in South Asian Anglophone Literature: Traversing Resistance Margins and Extremism (Routledge) and the monograph, Culture, Community and Difference in Select Contemporary British Muslim Fictions (forthcoming, Routledge).

• Acknowledgements List of Contributors Introduction – Literature and Theory: Contemporary Signposts and Critical Surveys SK SAGIR ALIPART IMyth Criticism 1 Portrait of Mythical and Archetypal Colour: A Reading of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man DEBADITYA MUKHOPADHYAYPART IIPoststructuralism and Deconstruction 2 Emily Dickinson’s “Nature”: A Poetic Metaphoricity and the Power of a Poststructuralist Hermeneutic MOUSUMI GUHA BANERJEE3 Narrating the “New City/ies”: Urban Studies in Literature and Cityscapes in Graphic Novels SUBASHISH BHATTACHARJEE4 “To Save the Tale From the Artist”: A Deconstructive Reading of Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers SANKAR PRASAD SINGHA5 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 DASPART IIIPsychoanalytic Criticism 6 The Whore and the Virgin: Sexual Non-Rapport in the Poetry of T.S. Eliot and Dialectics of the Obsessional Subject DEEPTESH SEN7 Truth in Literature: Lacan’s Joyce and the Question of Applied Psychoanalysis DIPANJAN MAITRA8 Rewriting the Psychotic Other of Author-Function in Peter Carey’s My Life as a Fake 93ARKA CHATTOPADHYAYPART IVQueer Theory 9 “He Had Beauty, Though”: The Queerness of Ruskin Bond’s Delhi Is Not Far NILADRI R. CHATTERJEEPART VReader-Response Criticism 10 The Problematic of Reading: The Intra-Textual Readers in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead MAMATA SENGUPTAPART VINew Historicism 11 Revisiting the Rushdiean peeling, fragmenting palimpsest called Pakistan: A New Historicist-Feminist Approach NASIMA ISLAMPART VIIMarxism 12 Marxism and Literary Thought: A View ANAND PRAKASHPART VIIIPostcolonialism 13 “This Is Not Knowledge; This Is Vanity”: Phrenology and the Mimicry of Western Science in Amitav Ghosh’s The Circle of Reason SAKOON SINGHPART IXCultural Study 14 Politics of Purity and Pollution: A Study of Cultural Voyeurism in KanthapuraSK SAGIR ALI15 Abuse, Coercion, and Power in Octavia Butler’s “Bloodchild” SHILADITYA SENPART XTranslation Study 16 Intermediality and Translation: Pedagogical Possibilities TUTUN MUKHERJEEIndex