The Literary Criterion
Current Volume: 58 (2023 )
ISSN: 0042-452X
Periodicity: Quarterly
Month(s) of Publication: Mar, Jun, Sep & Dec
Subject: Literature and Fiction
The Literary Criterion is now 66 years old and the longest Indian journal in continuous circulation in the country. It is internationally known and has successfully crated a critical climate for the past 60 years also influencing the academia about new areas of literature like The American, The African, the Australian, Caribbean, the New Zealand etc literature's. It has brought out various special issues and all these areas including Shakespeare, T.S. Eliot, F R Leavis and Indian writers of English. All the special issues have appeared in hardback as independent volumes. Its reputation is such in exchange for it more than 15 international journals are being received at Dhvanyaloka, Mysore.
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C N Srinath
Associate Editor
Ragini Ramachandra
Guest Editor
TEJ N DHAR
Volume 58 Issue 1-2 , (Jan-2023 to Jun-2023)
Rethinking Sitayana : A Transplant from The Ramayana
By: Bijay Kumar Das
Page No : 1-14
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Professor C.D. Narasimhaiah - Advocate of
By: B. Parvathi
Page No : 15-25
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Poile Sengupta
By: V. Satya Sudha
Page No : 26-47
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The Growth of a Novelist: A Study of Namita Gokhale
By: Shyamala A. Narayan
Page No : 48-64
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Review Article
Punjabi University, Patiala Tether That Light by Debasish Lahiri. Red River, 2022. Pp. 175. Price INR Rs. 349/- USD 9.99
By: Rajesh Sharma
Page No : 65-70
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Book Reviews
Queeny Pradhan, Ranis & The Raj: The Pen and The Sword, Penguin Viking, Gurugram (India), 2022. Pp. 336. Rs. 699/-
By: ..
Page No : 71-100
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A Report on the Proceedings of the Annual C.N. Sanjay Birth Anniversary Programme at Dhvanyaloka (Nov. 8, 2022)
By: ..
Page No : 101-111
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Announcement
By: ..
Page No : 112
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Jan-2022 to Jun-2022
CDN
By: C R Visweswara Rao
Page No : 1-15
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Theoretical Readings of 'Home' in Imaginary Homelands, Home In The World and Exiled at Home
By: Bijay Kumar Das
Page No : 16-26
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The Primal Land: An Ethnic Novel of Bonda Community of Odisha
By: Basavaraj Naikar
Page No : 27-45
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Louise Gluck, the Nobel Laureate: Some First Impressions of The Wild Iris
By: C N Srinath
Page No : 46-51
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From the Unknown to Well-known : Literary Journey of Abdul Razak Gurnah
By: Niveditha B
Page No : 52-56
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By: P. Suneetha
Page No : 57-80
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Tamilacci Tankapantiyan : 'New Poetry' with a Difference
By: P. Marudanayagam
Page No : 81-93
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Review Article
Ramayana : A Comparative Study of Ramakathas (Tr.) by C. T. Indra & Prema Jagannathan; Vitasta, New Delhi, 2021. pp. 394, Price : Rs. 995.
By: ..
Page No : 94-102
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Book Review
Basavaraj Naikar, The Sun of Freedom (A Historical Novel about the 1857-58 Mutiny of Naragund). Pune: Vishwakarma Publications, 2020. ISBN: 978-93-89624-41-0 pp. 240, Price: 299 INR
By: ..
Page No : 103-110
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Dhvanyaloka News (2021)
By: ..
Page No : 111-118
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Jul-2022 to Dec-2022
Editorial
By: C N Srinath
Page No : 1-2
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Guest Editorial
By: Tej N Dhar
Page No : 3-10
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Contemporary Kashmiri Poetry
By: Shafi Shauq
Page No : 11-29
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Rehman Rahi : the poet of myth, metaphor and imagination
By: Abid Ahmad
Page No : 30-40
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Dina Nath Nadim: The Poet Extraordinary
By: Arvind Shah
Page No : 41-59
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The Development of Kashmiri Drama
By: Rattan Talashi
Page No : 60-71
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Kashmiri Short Story through the Past Decades
By: Neerja Mattoo
Page No : 72-82
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The Novel in Kashmiri
By: Shafi Shauq
Page No : 83-101
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Non-Narrative Prose in Kashmiri
By: Shabir Hussain Mirza , Master Showket Ali
Page No : 102-114
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Literary Criticism in Kashmiri
By: Majrooh Rashid
Page No : 115-120
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Poems- Short Stories
Contemporary Kashmiri Creative Writing
By: ..
Page No : 121-156
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A Visitor's Impressions of Kashmir
By: Ragini Ramachandra
Page No : 158-168
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Book Review
The Greatest Kashmiri Stories Ever Told, compiled and translated by Neerja Mattoo; New Delhi: Aleph Book Company, 2022; xi+164; price Rs 699; HB.
By: ..
Page No : 169-178
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Jan-2021 to Jun-2021
In Memoriam : V S Naipaul, Two Visions : Exile and the Kingdom
By: Satendra Nandan
Page No : 1-20
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Shades of Postcolonial Trauma in Nervous Conditions
By: Tej N. Dhar
Page No : 21-35
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Rabindranath Tagore
By: Panchali Mukherjee
Page No : 36-49
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Gandhi At First Sight
By: C. Naganna
Page No : 50-58
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Unveiling the Past : A reading of Sudhir Kakar's The Crimson Throne (2010) and Jaipal Singh's Samru (2004)
By: Vijay Sheshadri
Page No : 59-74
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Book Reviews
By: Vijay Sheshadri
Page No : 75-105
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Reader's Response
By: ..
Page No : 106-112
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Dhvanyaloka News (2020)
By: ..
Page No : 113-119
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Jan-2021 to Jan-2021
Trends and Transitions in Bengali Literature Between 1970 and 2020
By: Sanjukta Dasgupta
Page No : 1-18
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Theorizing Nationalism : A Reading of Tagore
By: Sonali Das
Page No : 19-33
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Tradition and Modernity: An Analysis of Satyajit Ray
By: Sutanuka Ghosh Roy
Page No : 34-44
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Some thoughts on Bengali Poetry of the past 50 Years
By: Pinakesh Chandra Sarkar
Page No : 45-53
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Mahasweta Devi
By: Utpal Rakshit
Page No : 54-71
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Bengali Autobiographies (1970
By: Tirthankar Chattopadhyay
Page No : 72-88
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Appendix
By: Tirthankar Chattopadhyay
Page No : 89-103
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Book Reviews
By: Tirthankar Chattopadhyay
Page No : 104-150
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Jan-2020 to Jun-2020
Introductory
By: A. P. Dani
Page No : 1-5
Introductory
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The Quest forPeacocks : Manoj Das's Chasing the Rainbow
By: R. Ramachandra
Page No : 6-14
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Nature and Society in Manoj Das' novel Cyclones
By: Anilkumara S. R.
Page No : 15-22
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Lone Fox Dancing, My Autobiography by Ruskin Bond: Some first impressions
By: Ragini Ramachandra
Page No : 23-35
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A First Response to Pico Iyer's two Novels :The Man Within My Head (2012) Cuba and the Night (1996)
By: C. Naganna
Page No : 36-51
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Of Space, Place and Travel : Pico Iyer's Journeys into Travel Writing
By: Sindhu J
Page No : 52-59
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Neelum Saran Gour : An Introduction
By: Shyamala A. Narayan
Page No : 60-77
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Book Reviews
India and the West : Literary Encounters by S. Ramaswamy, Delhi : Eastern Book Linkers, 2019, pp.191, Price Rs. 650. ISBN:978-81-941656-6-8
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Page No : 78-100
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A Report on the proceedings of the two-day C.N. Sanjay Birth Anniversary Seminar on "Manoj Das, Ruskin Bond and Pico Iyer" held at Dhvanyaloka, Mysore (Nov. 8-9, 2019)
By: ..
Page No : 101-112
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Dhvanyaloka at 40
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Page No : 101-112
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Jul-2025 to Dec-2025
Editorial
By: C N Srinath
Page No : 1-2
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Can Human Behaviour be Changed? - For a Better 3 World! - Alfred Korzybski's General Semantics
By: TRS Sharma
Page No : 3-15
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The Complex Web: In Search of New Definitions
By: Jasbir Jain
Page No : 16-24
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Contextualizing Tone and Tenor in Shashi Deshpande's Creative-Critical Autobiography, Listen to Me
By: Bijay Kumar Das
Page No : 25-37
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Feminist Consciousness : A Study through the Selected Novels of Anita Desai
By: Sidharth Sankar Mohapatra
Page No : 38-46
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The Bohemian Academician: 'Travelling' with Pico Iyer
By: Imran Mulla
Page No : 47-58
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Vairamuthu : Poet as the Voice of the Voiceless
By: P. Marudanayagam
Page No : 59-66
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Book Reviews
C N Srinath, Varsity Verses: Translation of Vishwa Vidya Vachanagalu in Kannada by the Same Author, Mysore: Dhvanyaloka Publication, Mysore, 2018, pp. 69, price Rs.50/
By: P. Marudanayagam
Page No : 67-114
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Jan-2019 to Jun-2019
M. G. Vassanji
By: Manjula K. T. , Babu Gaonkar
Page No : 1-7
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Lorrain Hansberry and Ntozake Shange: The Racial Class, Culture and Conflict
By: Sudarsan Sahoo
Page No : 8-18
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Literary Critical Tradition today: Plural and Multicultural
By: C N Srinath
Page No : 19-24
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An Appraisal of Habib Tanvir
By: Shyam Babu
Page No : 25-38
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Home, Exile and the
By: Asima Sarker
Page No : 39-46
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Autobiographical Mnemonic: The Politics of Remembering in Ruskin Bond
By: Patil Sangita Sharnappa
Page No : 47-57
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Khaled Hosseini
By: Salia Rex
Page No : 58-70
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Badal Sircar
By: Aditi Banerjee
Page No : 71-79
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Theorizing Cosmopolitanism and Comparative Literature
By: Bijay Kumar Das
Page No : 80-90
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Amitav Ghosh
By: C N Srinath
Page No : 91-93
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Report & Announcements
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Page No : 94-100
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Jul-2019 to Dec-2019
Colonialism, Postcolonialism, English Teaching and Research in India
By: Rajnath
Page No : 1-17
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Indian Novel Today
By: TRS Sharma
Page No : 18-27
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The Enigma of Comrade Kirillov: Some Random Thoughts
By: Ragini Ramachandra
Page No : 28-37
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Trauma and Turbulence in African American Drama: Amiri Baraka's The Slave
By: Sudarsan Sahoo
Page No : 38-47
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Meeting F. R. Leavis
By: Rajnath
Page No : 48-53
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The Act of finding oneself : Journey of Women in Divakaruni's Before We Visit the Goddess and The Forest of Enchantments
By: Archana Srinath
Page No : 54-60
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Body is the soul
By: C N Srinath
Page No : 61-67
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The underpinnings of the Biblical Motif of Satan's Fall in Salman Rushdie's Fiction.
By: Suchitra Awasthi
Page No : 68-84
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Shakespeare's Hamlet and Bharata's Natyasastra on Drama
By: A. P. Dani
Page No : 85-90
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Book Reviews
By: ..
Page No : 91-112
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Jan-2018 to Jan-2018
Art-speech and The Man Who Died
By: N.R. Hayward
Page No : 1-19
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Lawrence, Leavis And Art-speech: The Evolution and Application of a Reflexive, Critical Concept
By: Paul Filmer
Page No : 20-35
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Notes on Lawrence
By: Philip Bufithis
Page No : 36-37
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Max Plowman, Jessie Chambers and D.H. Lawrence
By: Malcolm Pittock
Page No : 38-52
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A note on Kazuo Ishiguro : The Nobel Laureate for Literature 2017
By: S. Ramaswamy
Page No : 53-57
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By: Pradip Mondal
Page No : 58-69
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Masculinisation: The Gender Identity of a Professional Woman in Churchill
By: V.Vijayalakshmi , Geetha Senthilkumar
Page No : 70-74
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Plato Versus Derrida : Philosophy versus Literature
By: Rajmath
Page No : 75-81
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Book Reviews
By: ..
Page No : 82-108
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A Report on the proceedings of the C.N. Sanjay Birth Aniversary Seminar on Malyalam Literature at Dhvanyaloka, Mysore, Nov. 8-9, 2017
By: ..
Page No : 109-119
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Jul-2018 to Dec-2018
Reinventing the Grand Narrative: An Overview of Contemporary Malayalam Novel
By: E.V.Ramakrishnan
Page No : 1-13
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Translation as Literary History: Reflections on Modernity and Malayalam Literature
By: P P Raveendran
Page No : 14-29
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The Evolution of Malayalam Drama: A Subaltern Perspective
By: P. N. Prakash
Page No : 30-42
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Millennial Short Fiction in Malayalam :
By: Arunlal K
Page No : 43-55
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Protagonists in Malayalam Dalit Fictional Narratives
By: M. Dasan
Page No : 56-74
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Literary Criticism in Malyalam
By: P.P. Ajayakumar
Page No : 75-86
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A Backward Reading of the Multiple Manifestations of Malyalam Poetry
By: A.C. Sreehari
Page No : 87-98
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Malayalam Novel : An Overview
By: Reji A.L.
Page No : 99-117
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Revisiting Traditional
By: Abida Farooqui
Page No : 118-120
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Book Reviews
By: ..
Page No : 121-151
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