THE POETRY OF JAYANTA MAHAPATRA (Hardcover)

THE POETRY OF JAYANTA MAHAPATRA Book Description

The Poetry of Jayanta Mahapatra is an incisive and well researched book. It makes an in-depth study of the poetry of Jayanta Mahapatra from Close the Sky Ten by Ten to Shadow Space. Various aspects of his poetry ranging from thematic study to technical accomplishment have been discussed here with insight and precision. The concluding chapter seeks to evaluate Mahapatra as a Modernist, Post-Modernist and finally, a Post-Colonial poet. This is an invaluable book on Mahapatra s poetry.
Contents
I. Introduction
II. The Making of the Poet
III. The Development of Technique
IV. The Making of Indian English Idiom
V. A Critique of A Whiteness of Bone
VI. Poetry in the Mid-nineties
VII. Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
About the Author(s)
Dr. BIJAY KUMAR DAS, Ph.D. D.Litt. is a contributor to The Encyclopaedia of World Literature in the 20th Century (New York). He has published a number of Books and Research papers on British Literature, Post-colonial Literature, Literary Criticism, Translation Studies and Comparative Literature. His important books include Critical Essays on Post-colonial Literature (1999), Twentieth Century Literary Criticism (1995, 1996, 1998), The Horizon of Translation Studies (1998), Aspects of Commonwealth Literature (1995), The Horizon of Nissim Ezekiel s Poetry (1995), Critical Essays on Poetry (1993), Perspectives on Indian English Poetry Criticism (1993), A Reader s Guide to Ten Twentieth Century Indian Poets (1993, 1997, 1999), Modern Indian English Poetry (1992), Critical Perspectives on Relationship , and Latter-Day Psalms (1986), Modern Indo-English Poetry (1982) and A Study of Sarojini Naidu s Poetry (1977). He has edited three reference books : Comparative Literature (2000), Perspectives on the Poetry of R. Parthasarathy (1983, 1998) and Contemporary Indo-English Poetry (1986). He has edited and co-edited several Textbooks including Poetic Visage (OUP 1999) and Nineteenth Century English Poetry (OUP 1992, 1998). He has published scores of research papers on Shakespeare, Keats, Leavis, Yeats, Eliot, Ezekiel, Ramanujan, Jayanta Mahapatra, Kamala Das, Shiv K. Kumar, R. Parthasarathy, Arundhati Roy, Anita Desai, Vikram Chandra, Sashi Deshpande, Derek Walcott, Margaret Atwood, Ted Hughes, Derrida, Post-colonial Poetry, Art of Translation, Issues in 20th Century Literary Criticism, Comparative Literature and Post-colonial Theory. He has successfully guided 5 Ph.D. Scholars. Now he is a Reader in English at Ravenshaw College, Cuttack.

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