dr mohit k ray

Papers :

1. “Yvor Winters' Theory of Form”. Comparative Poetics edited by Claudio Guillen of Harvard University and published by Garland Publishing Inc., New Yo rk 1985.

2. “Use of Source Materials for the Development of the Theme of Martyrdom : Eliot and Tagore - A Comparative Study ”. Jadavpur Journal of Comparative Literature Vol - 24, 1986.

3. “A Note on New Criticism”. Journal of Literary Criticism Vol. 4. Delhi , June 1987.

4. “Eliot's Use of Eyewitness Accounts in Murder in the Cathedral”. Burdwan University Journal of the Department of English Vol. 1 No. 1 1987.

5. “ Objectivity in Literary Criticism”. Criticism and Research , Banaras: Banaras Hindu University , 1989.

6. “Joseph Brodsky : Poet”. New Quest . February 1989.

7. “Remembering Ransom”. North Bengal University Journal of the Department of English , 1989.

8. “Mallarmé and the Indian Theory of Dhvani ” . Historical and Cultural Contexts of Linguistic and Literary Phenomenon, Guelph : University of Guelph , Canada , 1989.

9. “T.S Eliot and the Gita” Burdwan University journal of the Department of English Vols v-vi 1990.

10. “Monologues of Tagore”. Visva-Bharati Quarterly, Vol. 3 Nos. 1-2, 1992.

11. “ A Note on Indian Sensibility in Post Independence Indian English Fiction”. The Journal of English Studies . Vol. 2. No. 1. Magadh: Magadh Unviersity , 1993.

12. “ Shelley , India and Bengali Poetry”. Meerut journal of Comparative Literature March, 1993.

13. “Western Fiction and Bankimchandra”. Bankimchandra: Essays in Perspective. New Delhi : Sahitya Akademi, 1994.

14. “Two Faces of Postmodernism” . Critical Practice . Vol. 1. No. 1, New Delhi , 1994.

15. “Vision of Beauty: Tagore and European Romanticism”. Forces of Vision . Tokyo : Tokyo University Press. 1994.

16. “Contemporary Literary Criticism : An Overview”. The Bhadrak Jounal of English Studies Vol. I Bhadrak: Post-Graduate Department of English , 1995.

17. “The Legacy of Matthew Arnold ”. Revaluations Vol. 1. No. 2. Summer 1995. Bhubaneswar , 1995.

18. “Translation as Transcreation and Reincarnation”. Perspectives: Studies in Translatology 1995 : 2 . Denmark : Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen , 1995.

19. “Thomas Hardy as a War Poet”. Journal 96 . Midnapore : Vidyasagar University , 1996.

20. “Keats's Vision of Beauty and European Romanticism” K e ats : Poetry and Poetics. New Delhi : Creative Books, 1997.

21. “In Search of La Belle Dame sans Merci”, The Critical Endeavour Vol. 2 October 1997. Berhampur : Researchers' Association, 1997

22. “The Ramayana, The Red Oleander and Surfacing : An Eco-Feminist Perspective”. Indian Journal of Canadian Studies. Vol, 6, 1997. Delhi : Creative Books ,1998.

23. “Genealogy of Postmodernism” Literature Theory and Criticism : Ruminations: Essays Presented to Dr V.N. Dhavale. Eds. A.P Dani and V.M. Madge. Delhi : Pencraft International, 1998.

24. “Derrida and the Indian Theory of Language”. Interliteraria 3, Tartu : University of Tartu , Estonia , 1998.

25. “Coleridge and the ‘Inmost Ind ' ” . The Critical Endeavour. Vol. 4. 1998.

26. “ ‘Locusts Stand I' : Some Feminine Aspects of The God of Small Things ”. Arundhati Roy : The Novelist Extraordinary. New Delhi : Prestige, 1999.

27. “ America in the Twentieth Century : From the Melting Pot to Mosaic”. New Waves in American Literature. Ed. A. A. Mutalik - Desai. New Delhi : Creative Books, 1999.

28. “Contemporary Indian English Poetry and Postmodernism”. Interliteraria 4 Tartu : University of Tartu , Estonia , 1999.

29.  “The Old Man and the Sea : An Archetypal Perspective”. West Bengal . Hemingway Birth Centenary Number . Calcutta : Govt. of West Bengal , Dec. 1999. [rptd. Critical Essays on American Literature: A Festscrift to L. Jeganatha Raja . (Ed. K.Balachandran). New Delhi : Sarup & Sons, 2004.

30. “ Camus's Existentialism as a Strategy of Revolt” . The Critical Endeavour Vol.5 December 1999.

31. “ A River Sutra : A Gyno – ecological Perspective”. Women Writers In the Twentieth Century Literature . Ed. Monica Gupta. New Delhi : Atlantic Publishers and Distributors, 2000.

32. “New Generation Poets”. Literary Space : Changing Responses . Burdwan: Academic Staff College , Burdwan University , 2000.

33. “ Chaudhuri's The Self - Destructive Tagore : A Critical Reading. Nirad C. Chaudhuri : The Scholar Extra-ordinary . Ed. R. K. Dhawan. New Delhi : Prestige, 2000.

34. “ Tagore on Ghare Baire : Aesthetics in Command”. Rabindranath Tagore's The Home and the World : Critical Perspectives . Ed. R. Kundu. New Delhi : asia book club, 2001.

35.  ”Foreword ”. Arati . By Shibaprasad Bhattacharya. Tarakeswar: Nivedita Press, November 2000.

36. “Post-Fifties British Fiction: A Brief Critical Overview”. The Ravenshaw Journal of English Studies . Vol.X, Nos.1-2, January – December 2000.

37.  “Northrop Frye and Contemporary Indian Literary Criticism:A Question of Possible Influence”. The Critical Endeavour Vol. VI, December 2000.

38. “L'Existentialisme de Camus comme strategie de la Revolte” in Albert Camus:La Revolte . Ed. Lionel Dubois. Poitiers : Editions du Pont-Neuf, 2001.

39. “Contemporary Australian English Fiction: A Postcolonial Perspective”. Australian Studies Eds. Amitava Roy et al . Kolkata: Australian Literature Study Centre, 2001.

40. Foreword. Random Voices:An Anthology of Indo-English Poems and Translations. Burdwan: ESA, 2001.

41. “Imitation as Aesthetics of Transformation” . Classical Literary Theory and Criticism . Eds. Dani, A.P. and V.N.Madge. New Delhi : Pencraft International, 2001.

42. “John Dryden: Our Contemporary ”. Dryden and the World of Neoclassicism [Eds Holger Klein& Wolfgang Gortschacher] Austria ( Tubingen ): Stauffenburg -Verlag , 2001.

43. "Search for Identity in Postcolonial Literature". The Ravenshaw Journal of English Studies . Vol. XI . Nos.1-2 Jan-Dec 2001.

44. “Shakespeare in Kabuki” . Indian Response to Shakespeare. Ed. B.Naiker , New Delhi : Atlantic Publishers and Distributors, 2002. Rptd. Colonial and Postcolonial Shakespeares [Ed. Amitav Roy et al…]. Calcutta : Shakespeare Society of Eastern India .

45. “Translation as Interpretation”. Translation : Poetics and Practice . Ed. Anisur Rahman .New Delhi : Creative Books, 2002.

46. “A Note on Dryden's Views on Translation”. Studies in Translation (Ed. Mohit K.Ray). New Delhi : Atlantic Publishers and Distributors, 2002.

47."Preface". Perspectives on Criticism [ed. M.K.Ray]. New Delhi : Atlantic Publishers & Distributors, 2002.

48. "Preface". Studies in Translation [Ed. M.K.Ray]. New Delhi : Atlantic Publishers & Distributors,2002.

49. "Preface". Studies in English Literature (Vol.I).[Ed. M.K.Ray]. New Delhi : Atlantic Publishers & Distributors, 2002.

50."Preface". Studies in Literature in English (Vol.II).[Ed. M.K.Ray]. New Delhi : Atlantic Publishers & Distributors, 2002.

51. "Preface". Studies in American Literature [Ed. M.K.Ray]. New Delhi : Atlantic Publishers & Distributors, 2002.

52. "Preface". V.S.Naipaul: Critical Essays (Vol.I&Vol.II). [Ed. M.K.Ray]. New Delhi : Atlantic Publishers & Distributors,2002.

53. "Preface". Studies in Comparative Literature [Ed. M.K.Ray]. New Delhi : Atlantic Publishers & Distributors, 2002.

54. "New Trends in University Education". Academy . Burdwan University Academic Staff College Newsletter. Volume 3. No.1. October 2002.[A slightly revised version of the talk broadcast from All India Radio, Calcutta , on 27 May 2001.]

55."Tradition and Avant-garde in Girish Karnad's Hayavadana ". Interlitteraria . 7- 2002-Vol.1, [ Tartu Ulikool; Kirjastus], Estonia. [Rpt. as "Karnad's Use of Source-Texts and Folk Form" in Indian Writing in English .Vol.1. (Ed. Rama Kundu). New Delhi : Atlantic Publishers & Distributors, 2003.]

56. “Sexuality in The Rape of the Lock” . Merope , Litteratura. Anno XII-N.32- Gennaio 2001, Universita degli Studi "G.d' Annunzio", Edizioni Tracce , Italy . [Rpt. in Literature and Criticism. Vol. 2. No 2.Berhampur: Berhampur University. rpt. in At the Frontier and Beyond: Literature and Its Relations: Essays presented to Hiren Gohain (Eds. G.Sarma & R.K.Moral). Kolkata:Macmillan India , 2004]

57. "Shakespeare's Construction of the Jew". The Critical Endeavour . Vol. VIII, December 2002.

58. "Indigenous Sensibility in Post-Colonial Indian English Fiction". The Quest . Vol.16, No.2. December 2002.

59. " I Heard the Owl Call My Name : The Twentieth Century in Retrospect" . Studies in Commonwealth Literature [Ed. M.K.Ray]. New Delhi : Atlantic Publishers and Distributors, 2003.

60. "Preface". Primer of Greek Literature [Ed. R.C.Jebb]. New Delhi : Atlantic Publishers and Distributors, 2003.

61. "Sailenbabu"(Obituary on Professor Sailendra Kumar Sen). English Journal , Department of English. Burdwan University , Vol.13, No. 1. ,2001[Published 2003]

62. "They also Serve: Amit's 'Radical' Elite and Their Menials: A Deconstructive Approach". The Ravenshaw Journal of English Studies . Vol.XII, Nos. 1-2. January-December 2002.

63."Two Worlds: A Study in Estrangement" Lo Straniero: Journal of IMISE [International Movement for Interdisciplinary Study of Estrangement] 37 th Issue, April, 2003].

64."Foreword" to C.H.Herford's The Age of Wordsworth , New Delhi : Atlantic Publishers & Distributors, 2003.

65. "My Philosophy of Teaching" . Spectrum , Lions' Club, Burdwan, 2003.

66. "Sikshakata Amar Cokhe"[B] Burdwan Lions' Club Bulletin , 2003.

67. “Translation and the History of Bengali Poetry”, The Critical Endeavour , Vol.IX, (December, 2003)

68. “Why Study English?”, The Light , ELLAWB, Issue 16, March 2004.

69. "Shakespeare's Construction of the Jew". “Not of an Age, but for All Time”: Shakespeare across Lands and Ages . [eds. Sabine Coelsch-fFoisner/Gyorgi E. Szonyi]. Austria : Braumuller , 2004. [published in slightly revised form in Interlitteraria 10-2005 , [Tartu Ulikool; Kirjastus], Estonia .

70. “Re-Orienting the Oriental Story-Telling Tradition: A Study of the Stories of Manoj Das”. Tale, Novella, Short Story: Currents in Short Fiction [eds. Wolfgang Gortschcher/Holger Klein] Austria : Stauffenburg Verlag, 2004. 

71. “ ‘Stitching and Unstitching' in Sailing to Byzantium ”. The Critical Endeavour , Vol X, December 2004

72. “The ‘Servants' of Amit: A Study in Ambivalence” . Critical Response to Indian Writing in English: Essays in Honour of Dr A.P.J.Abdul Kalam. [Ed.K.Balachandran] New Delhi : Sarup & Sons, 2004.

73. “Introduction” to A Preface to Paradise Lost by C.S.Lewis. rptd. New Delhi : Atlantic Publishers & Distributors, 2005.

74. “Problems of evaluating a Sanskrit Drama by Western Standard”. Journal of the Department of English[U.G. & P.G.] . Vol.1, Dec., 2005[Came out in March 2006]

75. Saraswat Ramaranjan : A Tribute to Professor Ramaanjan Mukherjee on the occasion of his birthday 1 January.2006

76. “General Preface” to Salman Rushdie: Critical Essays. Vol.I . and Vol.II. New Delhi : Atlantic Publishers & Distributors, 2006.

77. “Search for the Literary Universal: India and the West”. The Grove :Working Papers on English Studies .(No.12-2005) Universidad de Jaen , Spain [Came out in 2006]

78. “Foreword”. On the Way Home: An Anthology of Contemporary Estonian Poetry [eds. H.L.Hix and Jüri Talvet] .New Delhi : Sarup & Sons, 2006.

79.  “ ‘Stitching and Unstitching' in ‘Sailing to Byzantium ' ”. The Author as Reader: Textual Visions and Revisions [eds. Sabine Coelsch-Foisner and Wolfgang Görtschacher]. Universitat Salzburg: Europäischer Verlag der Wissenschaften: Peter Lang, 2005 [Came out in 2006].

80. “Introduction' and ‘Volume Prefaces' to The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore . Vols 1-8. New Delhi : Atlantic Publishers & Distributors, 2007.

81. “Towards a New Poetics for Evaluating Indian English Literature”. Journal of Literary Criticism (University of Allahabad), Vol XI, No.1 (June 2006; came out in July 2007) [ Special number on “Indian Writing in English: Problems of Response”]

82. “Rasa and Pleasure”. Interlitteraria 12: 2007 [ Tartu Ulikool; Kirjastus], Estonia .

83. Selected Poems (Translation and Foreword of an anthology of Bengali poems by Somnath Sarkar). Kolkata: Michael Madhisudan Academy , 2007.

84. “Use of Thematic Symbols in Silence! The Court is in Session ” in Indo-Anglian Literature: Past to Present (ed. Ketaki Datta). Kolkata: Books Way , 2008.

85. “Problems of Evaluating a Sanskrit Drama by Western Standard”. Theatralia . [Studia Minora Facultatis Philosophicae Universitatis Brunesis, Q 10/2007; (came out in March 2008)]Masarykova Univerzita. Brno , Czochoslovakia .

86. “Golding's Use of Myths in Lord of the Flies ”. Interlitteraria . (13-2008, Vol.II) Tartu University , Tartu , Estonia.

87. “ Don Giovanni and the ‘Circe' Chapter of Ulysses ” . Mozart in Anglophone Cultures [eds. Sabine Coelsch-Foisner, Dorothy Flothow, Wolfgang Görtschacher] Salzburg Studies in English Literature and Culture Series (Vol.4). Salzburg : Universitat Salzburg & IRCM: Peter Lang, 2009.

88. “Joseph Conrad's Treatment of the ‘Other' in Heart of Darkness”. Žmogus ir Žodis (Man and the Word). Vilnius (Lithuania): Vilnius Pedagogical University, Vol.I0, No.2, 2008.