New Orientation Series
A SERIES OF RECENT CRITICAL ANTHOLOGIES

Each title in this series carries a discerning selection from the preceding twenty years's criticism edited by a knowledgeable Indian scholar on the author/work under study

Eassays/articals reprinted with permission from Macmillan Ltd., Longman Group, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Routledge, Harvard University Press, New York University Press, Chicago University Press, Toronto University Press among other publishers; and from Kenyon Review, Modern Fiction Studies, Journal of modern Literature, Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Studies in English Literature, Southern Review, Ariel, Mosaic, Style, ELN, among other journals.

Commissioned articles by leading scholars, both indian and western, offering fresh revaluations.

An introduction and a critical update by the editor.

 
Titles Published
Margaret Atwood : Critical Perspectives Edited by Somdatta Mandal

Contributors : Albert Braz, Coomi S. Vevaina, Debarati Bandyopadhyay, Kamala Gopalan, Lindsay Steuber, Murari Prasad, Nora Foster Stovel, R. Subhasshri, Raja Sekhar Patteti, V. Sangeetha, Shoshannah Ganz , Somdatta Mandal ,Sudev Pratim Basu ,Tessa Mellas ,Utpala G. Sewa

ISBN 978-93-82178-06-04   2014    232 pages      Rs. 700(hb)
Children of Midnight : Contemporary Indian Novel in English Edited by Ludmila Volná, Nilanshu Kumar Agarwal, and Murari Prasad

Contributors : Bill Ashcroft, Meenakshi Bharat, Ecaterina Patrascu, Ayal Amer and Wing Yi Chan, Ana Garcia Arroyo, Aida Balvannanadhan, Dagmar Markova,Daniela Rogobete, Michel Naumann, Maria Elena Martos Hueso, Christopher Rollason, Evelyne Hanquart-Turner, Sebastien Blache, Murari Prasad.

ISBN 978-93-82178-02-6  2012     200 pages      Rs. 600(hb)
V.S. Naipaul's: A House for Mr Biswas Critical Perspectives Edited by Meenakshi Bharat

Contributors :Cameron Fae Bushnell, Debaditya Bhattacharya, Florence Lebaune-Demeule, Gillian Dooley, Gregory Wilson, Harish Trivedi, John Thieme, Meenakshi Bharat, Meenakshi Mukherjee, Neil ten Kortenaar, Ratna Raman, Savi Munjal, Vijay Mishra, Vijay Maharaj.

ISBN 978-93-82178-02-6 2013  248 pages      Rs. 650(hb)
The Plays of Mahesh Dattani : An Anthology of Recent Criticism, Edited by Tutun Mukherjee

Contributors :Anindya Bhattacharya, Sajalkumar Bhattacharya, Abin Chakraborty, Niladri Chatterjee, Anjali Chaubey,Asha Kuthari Chaudhuri,Dipendu Das,Jolly Das, Bhaskar Lama, Saptarshi Mallick, Evangeline Marbaniang, Zinia Mitra,Angelie Multani, Saugata Kumar Nath, Subhodeep Paul, Dibyabibha Roy,Saurabhi Sarmah, B.T. Seetha,Grace Sudhir,Catherine Thankamma .

ISBN 978-93-82178-03-3 2012 280pp Rs. 750(hb)
Mahasweta Devi : Critical Perspectives, Edited by Nandini C Sen

Contributors : Anuradha Ghosh, Dinithy Karunanayake, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, G. N. Devy, Guru Charan Behera, H.Kalpana, Henry Schwarz, Jasbir Jain, Mercy Lucas, Naveen Kishore, Radha Chakravarty, Sonali Jain, Sreemati Mukherjee, Tutun Mukherjee, Vasugi Kailasam.

ISBN 978-81-909416-7-9 2011 224pp Rs. 650(hb)
Arundhati Roy : Critical Perspectives, Edited by Murari prasad

Contributors : Amitava Kumar, Aijaz Ahmad, Devon Campbell-Hall, Alex Tickell, Madhu Benoit ,Brinda Bose, Antonia Navarro-Tejero, Julie Mullaney, Bishnupriya Ghosh, Murari Prasad and N. Ram.

ISBN 81-85753-76-8 2011 212pp Rs. 600(hb)
Vikram Seth :An Anthology of Recent Criticism, Edited by GJV Prasad

Contributors : K.C. Baral, Meenakshi Bharat, Nandini Chandra, Angela Eyre, Tabish Khair, Priya Kumar, Jon Mee, Angelie Multani, Mala Pandurang, GJV Prasad, Anjana Sharma, Neelam Srivastava.

ISBN 81-85433-61-X 2011 192pp. Rs. 550(hb)
Mahesh Dattani’s Plays : Critical Perspectives, Edited by Angelie Multani

Contributors : Radha Ramaswamy, John McRae, Michael Walling, Payal Nagpal, Gouri Nilakantan Mehta, Swati Pal, G J V Prasad, Miruna George, Erin B. Mee, Angelie Multani.

ISBN 81-85753-84-9 2011 176pp. Rs. 550(hb)
Kamala Das :Critical Perspectives, Edited by Devindra Kohli

Contributors :Eunice de Souza, Kamala Das, Vrinda Nabar, Suguna Ramanathan, Anne Brewster, P.P.Raveendran, Keki Daruwalla, Krishna Rayan, Carol Rumens, K.Satchidananddan, Bruce King, Vincent O’Sullivan, Chris Wallace-crabbe, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Rakmini Bhaya Nairm Suresh Kohli and Meena Alexander.

ISBN 978-81-909416-1-7 2010    216pp Rs. 600(hb)
Bharti Mukherjee : Critical Perspectives, Edited by Somdatta Mandal

Contributors : Somdatta Mandal, Malashri Lal, Anne Brewster, Himadri Lahiri, Ruth Maxey, Aparajita Ray, Snehasis Maiti, Sumana gupta, Jasbir Jain, Usha Bande, Shweta rao, Rajyashree Khushu-Lahiri, S.Sujaritha, N.Chandra, Raffaella Malandrino, Bradley C. Edwards, Robyn Warhol-Down, Fakrul Alam, Neeru Anand, T.R. Shashipriya, Judie Newman, Anita Balakrishnan and Fayeza Hasanat.

ISBN 978-81-909416-5-5 2010 296pp Rs. 750(hb)
Nissim Ezekiel : A Critical Companion, Edited by G.S. Balarama Gupta

Contributors : G.S Balarama Gupta, D.Ramakrishna, Ananya Sankar Guha, P.M.Chacko, M.K.Naik, GJV Prasad, Zerin Anklesaria, G.Damodar, A.N Dwivedi, V.M.Madge Charu Bhagwat, B.N.Prasad, Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan, N.Prabhaker Acharya, Havovi Anklesaria, Santan Rodrigues, Toni Patel, N.D.Dani and Nissim Ezekiel.

ISBN 978-81-909416-2-4 2010 200pp Rs. 500(hb)
Rushdie's Midnight's Children : A Book of Readings, Edited by Meenakshi Mukherjee

Contributors : Rober Alter, Richard Cronin, Patricia Marivale, Nancy Batty, Keith Booker, Rukmini Bhaya Nair, Nalini Natarajan, Harish Trivedi, T. Vijay Kumar, Meenakshi Mukherjee, Clement Hawes, Josna E. Rege, Neil Ten Kortenaar .

ISBN 81-85753-28-8 2010 232pp. Rs. 600(hb)
Chinua Achebe : An Anthology of Recent Criticism, Edited by Mala Pandurang

Contributors : Mala Pandurang, Anuradha Ghosh, Mary E. Modupe Kolawale, Kwadwo Osei-Nyame, Roopali Sircar, Reema Kansal and Amit Sarwal, Anjali Roy, Viney Kirpal, Debashish Lahiri, Russell McDougall, Pauline Dodgson-Katiyo, Anke Bartels, Peter T. Simatei, Obiwu, Chima Anyadike and Ike Anya.

ISBN 81-85753-73-3 2010 256pp Rs. 495(hb)
Rushdie the Novelist : from Grimus to The Enchantress of Florence, Edited by Meenakshi Bharat

Contributors : R. Radhakrishnan, GJV Prasad, John J. Su, Dipti Nath , Patrick Colm Hogan, Someshwar Sati, Samir Dayal, Anuradha Marwah, Hema Ramachandran, Christel Devadawson, Meenakshi Mukherjee, Alexandra Schultheis, Dohra Ahmad, Gavin Keulks, Amrit Biswas, Brian Finney Savi Munjal, Rashmi Sahni, Meenakshi Bharat.

ISBN 81-85753-95-4 2009 232pp Rs. 695(hb)
Amitav Ghosh: The Shadow Lines A Critical Companion, Edited by Murari Prasad

Contributors : Fakrul Alam, Ian Almond, Nivedita Bagchi, Shameem Black, Brinda Bose, Claire Chambers, Sharmani Patricia Gabriel, Maria Elena Martos Hueso, Tuomas Huttunen, Akhil Katyal, Nyla Ali Khan, Shivani Mutneja, Vaibhav I Parel, Aruima Paul, Murari Prasad, Anjali Roy, Krishna Sen.

ISBN 81-85753-89-X 2008 236pp Rs. 550(hb)
Anita Desai: Critical Perspectives, Edited by Devindra Kohli and Melanie Maria Just

Contributors : Anita Desai, Corinne Demas , Radha Chakravarty, Harveen Sachdeva Mann, Vasant A Shahane, Ellen Dengel-Janic, Rajeswari Mohan , Aritha van Herk, Viney Kirpal, Sharmila Sen, Judie Newman , Chandra Chatterjee ,Minoli Salgado, Devindra Kohli, Melanie Maria Just.

ISBN 81-85753-90-3 2008 232pp. Rs. 600(hb)
Jhumpa Lahiri : Critical Perspectives, Edited by Nigamananda Das

Contributors : Jaydeep Chakrabarty, Raji Narasimhan, Himadri Lahiri, Reetamoni Narzary, Binda Sah, Buddhadeb Roychoudhury, Zinia Mitra, Shahnawaz Begum, Mansing G. Kadam, Bhagabat Nayak, Krushna Chandra Mishra, Arun Aguiar.

ISBN 81-85753-87-3 2008 184pp. Rs. 450(hb)
Mahasweta Devi : An Anthology of Recent Criticism, Edited by Nivedita Sen and Nikhil Yadav

Contributors : Alaknanda Bagchi, Anjum Katyal, Brinda Bose, Gabrielle Collu, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Jaidev, Jennifer Wenzel, Minoli Salgado, M. Asaduddin, Radha Chakravarty, Sujit Mukherjee, Tabish Khair.

ISBN 81-85753-88-1 2008 256pp. Rs. 600(hb)
J.M. Coetzee : Critical Perspectives, Edited by Kailash C. Baral

Contributors : Parag M. Sarma, Aroma Kharshiing, Seth B. Pardick, Wang Jinghui, Mike Marais, Lois Wolfe, Arindam Chatterjee, Bijaya K. Danta, Suresh Raval, Erik Grayson, Tim McIntyre, Madan M. Sarma, Farheena Danta, Greg Pritchard, Denise Almeida Silva, Fiona Probyn-Rapsey.

ISBN 81-85753-91-1 2008 280pp Rs. 600(hb)
Ngugi wa Thiong’o : An Anthology of Recent Criticism, Edited by Mala Pandurang

Contributors :Ademola O. Dasylva, Anjali Gera Roy, Anke Bartels, Austine Amanze Akpuda, Debasish Lahiri, Dul Johnson, Kwado Osei-Nyame Jnr, Lanrele Bamidele, Ojo Olorunleke, PadmaMalini S. Raghavan, Pauline Dodgson-Katiyo, Peter Simatei, Saurav Dasthakur.

ISBN 81-85753-83-0 2007 232pp. Rs. 560(hb)
Rohinton Mistry : An Anthology of Recent Criticism, Edited by Anjali Gera Roy and Meena T Pillai

Contributors :Chelva Kanaganayakam, Nilufer E Bharucha, Paromita Chakravarti, Swati Ganguly, Supriya M, Jose Verghese, Deepika Bahri, Jameela Begum A, Mala Pandurang, P Radhika, Kaela Jubas, K C Belliappa, Deborah Weagel, Sukeshi Kamra, Vijay Sheshadri, Peter Morey.

ISBN 81-85753-81-4 2007 256pp. US $ 18 Rs. 600(hb)
Wole Soyinka : An Anthology of Recent Criticism, Edited by Anjali Gera Roy

Contributors : Ndaeyo Uko, Chukwuma Okoye, Tunde Awosanmi, Victor Samson Dugga, Eckhard Breitinger, G.A. Ioratim-Uba, Joseph McLaren, Ameh Dennis Akoh, Liwhu Betiang, Hilarious N. Ambe, Ayan Gangopadhyay, Anjali Gera Roy, Viney Kirpal, Brinda Mehta, Pushpinder Syal, Ismail Bala Garba.

ISBN 81-85753-77-6 2006 272pp. Rs. 495(hb)
Girish Karnad's Plays : Performance and Critical Perspectives, Edited by Tutun Mukherjee

Contributors : Vijaykumar M.Boratti & Nikhila Haritsa,B.Yadava Raju, Basavaraj S.Naikar,Veena Noble Dass,Aparna Dharwadkar,C.R. Simha,M.K. Naik, Erin B. Mee,P. Dhanavel,N.P. Ashley,Moutushi Chakravartee,B.T. Seetha,V. Rangan,Jose George,Sharmila Sreekumar and K.C. Bindu, Kavalam Narayana Panikkar,Arundhati Banerjee,H.S. Krishnamurthy, Ananda Lal,Rama Nair,P.Jayalakshmi,Mala Renganathan,Mamta G. sagar,Arjun Sajnani, Sumita Roy,S.Subhash Chandran,Krishnamurthy Hanur,Grace Sudhir,Maya Pandit, Prasanna,Tutun Mukherjee,Jasbir Jain

ISBN 81-85753-71-7 2006 380pp plus 20
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Rs. 695(hb)
Fostre's A Passage To India : An Anthology of Recent Criticism, Edited by G.K. Das and Christel R. Devadawson

Contributors : Nigel Rapport,Alison Sainsbury,Parminder Bakshi,Sara Mills, Brenda R. Silver,Eiko Ohira,Tariq Rahman,Christel R. Devadawson,G.K.Das

ISBN 81-85753-66-0 2005 232pp Rs. 450(hb)
Writing Difference : The Novels of Shashi Deshpande, Edited by Chanchala K. Naik

Contributors : Shashi Deshpande,Jasbir Jain,Shalmalee Palekar, Kalidas Misra,Kailash C. Baral,Arindam Chatterji,Avadhesh kumar Singh, Parag Moni Sarma,Guru Charan Behera,Rama Gautam,A.G. Khan,Vijaya Guttal

ISBN 81-85753-69-5 2005 248pp Rs. 480(hb)
U.R. Anantha Murthy's: SAMSKARA A Critical Reader, Edited by Kailash C. Baral,D. Venkat Rao and Sura P. Rath

Contributors : Kailash C. Baral,D. Venkat Rao,Sura P.Rath, U.R. Anantha Murthy,S. Jayasrinivasa Rao,K.V. Tirumalesh,Meenakshi Mukherjee, Suresh Raval,TRS Sharma,R. Radhakrishnan,nalini Natarajan, Dunkin Jalki,Vanamala Viswanatha,Julian Crandall Hollick and Sebana Coelho

ISBN 81-85753-70-9 2005 256pp Rs. 480(hb)
Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy : An Anthology of Recent Criticism, Edited by Murari prasad

Contributors : Himansu S. Mohapatra and Jatindra K. Nayak,Neelam Shrivastava, Christopher Rollason,Ian Almond,Murari Prasad,Mala Pandurang,David Myers, Felicity Hand,Cielo G. Festino

ISBN 81-85753-72-5 2005 180pp Rs. 400(hb)
Amitav Ghosh: Critical Perspectives, Edited by Brinda Bose

Contributors : Kavita Daiya, GJV Prasad, Vinita Chandra, Neelam Srivastava, Roma Chatterji, Shirley Chew, Bishnupriya Ghosh, Rakhee Moral, Tapan Basu, Meenakshi Malhotra, Mita Bose, Arunima Paul, Swaati Chattopadhyay, Neha Dixit, Arunima Sengupta, Srimati Basu.

ISBN 81-85753-52-0 2005 224pp. Rs. 440(hb)
R.K. Narayan : An Anthology of Recent Criticism, Edited by C.N. Srinath

Contributors : V.Y. Kantak, C.D. Narasimhaiah, Lakshmi Holmström, Vineypalkaur Kirpal, William Walsh, Meena Sodhi, K. Chellappan, Syd Harrex, R.K. Jayantha, Britta Olinder, Michel Pousse, Patrick Swinden.

ISBN 81-85753-38-5 2005 192pp. Rs. 450(hb)
Jane Austen : An Anthology of Recent Criticism, Edited by Harish Trivedi

Contributors : Sharmila Bhatt, Julia Prewitt Brown, Peter Conrad, David Lodge, Oliver MacDonagh, Meenakshi Mukherjee, Edward Neill, Nicholas E. Preus, Edward Said, Amy Elizabeth Smith, Robyn R.Warhol, et al

ISBN 81-85753-08-3 2005 256pp. Rs. 400(hb)
D.H. Lawrence : An Anthology of Recent Criticism, Edited by Aruna Sitesh

Contributors : Peter Balbert, Elizabeth Anne Campbell, Carol Dix, Dennis Jackson, Graham Martin, Peter New, Joan D. Peters, Faith Pullin, Keith Sagar, Gamini Salgado, H.S. Saxena, Aruna Sitesh, Carol Sklenicka, George Watson.

ISBN 81-85753-65-2 2005 232pp. Rs. 450(hb)
W.B. Yeats : An Anthology of Recent Criticism, Edited by G.R. Taneja

Contributors : Harold F. Brooks, Ronald Bush, Suheil B. Bushrui, Joseph Chadwick, Gayatri Chakravorty-Spivak, R.W. Desai, Sonjoy Dutta-Roy, Linda L. Fox, Nancy D. Hargrove, Rob Jackaman, Debra Journet, R.B. Kershner, Russell E. Murphy, Evan Radcliffe, G.R. Taneja.

ISBN 81-85753-07-5 2005 240pp. Rs. 400(hb)
V.S. Naipaul : An Anthology of Recent Criticism, Edited by Purabi Panwar

Contributors : Anjali Gera, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Meenakshi Bharat, Chandra B. Joshi, Chandra Chatterjee, Sudha Rai, Kavita Nandan, Richard Allen, Gillian Dooley, S. S. Sharma, Kanika Batra, Amit Chaudhuri, Fukrul Alam.

ISBN 81-85753-54-7 2003 200pp. Rs. 400(hb)
Robert Frost : An Anthology of Recent Criticism, Edited by Manorama Trikha

Contributors : Helen H. Bacon, Nina Baym, Reginald L. Cook, Phillip Gerber, Dorothy J. Hall, Vivian C. Hopkins, V.Y. Kantak, Frank Lentricchia, J.F. Lynen, William Mulder, George W. Nitchie, John Oliver Perry, Richard Poirier.

ISBN 81-85433-01-1 2003 216pp. Rs. 400(hb)
T.S. Eliot : An Anthology of Recent Criticism, Edited by Tapan Kumar Basu

Contributors : Tapan Kumar Basu, Jonathan Bishop, Jewel Spears Brooker, Ronald Bush, Denis Donoghue, Sonjoy Dutta-Roy, Melissa A. Eiles, Armin Paul Frank, Linda Leavell, Marc Manganaro, RamaNair, Rajnath, Audrey T. Rodgers, Virendra K. Roy, Vinod Sena, Stanley Sultan.

ISBN 81-85753-01-6 2001 240pp. Rs. 400(hb)
Raja Rao : An Anthology of Recent Criticism, Edited by Ragini Ramachandra

Contributors : R. Parthasarathy, M.K. Naik, Edwin Thumboo, V.Y. Kantak, C.D. Narasimhaiah, S. Nagarajan, Claudio Gorlier, A.N. Gupta, S.C. Harrex, Shyamala A. Narayan, Ragini Ramachandra, Paul Sharrad, J. Srihari Rao.

ISBN 81-85753-39-3 2000 192pp. Rs. 350(hb)
Ernest Hemingway : Centennial Essays, Edited by E. Nageswara Rao

Contributors : P.G. Rama Rao, N. Ramachandran Nair, Tutun Mukherjee, Somdatta Mandal, M. Sridhar, Uma Tuli, Rahul, Pratima Agnihotri, Soma Banerjee, T. Bharathi, Linda Dittmar, S. Josh, Kalidas Misra, E. Nageswara Rao, Aviram Singh, Alladi Uma.

ISBN 81-85753-36-9 2000 152pp. Rs. 320(hb)
P.B. Shelley : An Anthology of Recent Criticism, Edited by N.P. Singh

Contributors : Lloyd Abbey, Nathaniel Brown, Frederick Burwick, Andrew M. Cooper, Leela Gandhi, Patricia Hodgart, William Keach, Sikandar Lal, Tilottama Rajan, Kavita A. Sharma, Ram Bilas Sharma, N.P.Singh, Earl R. Wasserman.

ISBN-81-85753-03-2 1999 248pp. Rs. 400(hb)
John Keats : An Anthology of Recent Criticism, Edited by E. Nageswara Rao

Contributors : A.A. Ansari, Cynthia Chase, Donald C. Goellnicht, Michael E. Holstein, Brooke Hopkins, Greg Kucich, Deborah Pope, Tilottama Rajan, E. Nageswara Rao, R.K. Raval, Marlon B. Ross, A.B. Sharma, Helen Vendler, Leon Waldoff, Daniel P. Watkins.

ISBN 81-85753-02-4 1998 232pp. Rs. 350(hb)
Mark Twain : An Anthology of Recent Criticism, Edited by Prafulla C. Kar

Contributors : John E. Bassett, Pascal Covici, Jr., Dilip Kumar Das, Jane Gardiner, Prafulla C. Kar, James L. Kastely, Louis A. Renza, Forrest G. Robinson, Joseph Sawicki, George E. Toles, Biyot K. Tripathy.

ISBN 81-85753-00-8 1998 224pp. Rs. 350(hb)
William Shakespeare : An Anthology of Recent Criticism, Edited by Leela Gandhi

Contributors : Sukanta Chaudhuri, R.W. Desai, Udayan Mitra, Ruth Vanita, Supriya Chaudhuri, Janet Adelman, Ann Blake, Suroopa Mukherjee, A.D. Nuttall, Josheph Pequigney, Valerie Traub, Leela Gandhi.

ISBN 81-85753-24-5 1998 232pp. Rs. 350(hb)
Joseph Conrad : An Anthology of Recent Criticism, Edited by Lalitha Ramamurthi & C.T. Indra

Contributors : Jennifer Margulis, Dieter Reimenschneider, Sophie Jose Tharakan, Bridget Dohnallan, Heliena M. Krenn, P. Radhika, Addison Bross, Jorge Sacido-Romero, Prahlad Kulkarni, Lalitha Ramamurthi, C.T. Indra.

ISBN 81-85753-26-1 1998 184pp. Rs. 350(hb)
Feminist Theory and Modern Drama : An Anthology of Recent Criticism, Edited by Taisha Abraham.

Contributors : Kamal Bhasin, Elizabeth Brown-Guillory, Shari Benstock, Gloria Cahill, Elin Diamond, Jill Dolan, J. Ellen Gainor, Katherine Hanson, Naresh K. Jain, Zakia Pathak, Janelle Reinelt, Taisha Abraham.

ISBN 81-85753-19-7 1998 232pp. Rs. 350(hb)