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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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Editor
- C N Srinath , srinathcn43@gmail.com
Associate Editor
- Ragini Ramachandra
Volume 57 (2022) Issue 1-2 , (January-2022 to June-2022)
January-June
Editorial
C. N. Srinath
CDN’s Autobiography N for Nobody : A Critical Assessment
by C R Visweswara Rao
Theoretical Readings of 'Home' in Imaginary Homelands, Home In The World and Exiled at Home by Bijay Kumar Das
The Primal Land: An Ethnic Novel of Bonda Community of Odisha by Basavaraj Naikar
Louise Gluck, the Nobel Laureate: Some First Impressions of The Wild Iris by C. N. Srinath
From the Unknown to Well-known : Literary Journey of Abdul Razak Gurnah by Niveditha B
“Us” and “Them”: A Study of Anna Burns’ Milkman by P. Suneetha
Tamilacci Tankapantiyan : 'New Poetry' with a Difference by P. Marudanayagam
Review Article by Raghavan N. S.
Book Review by Chandrakant A. Langare
Dhvanyaloka News (2021) by Ragini Ramachandra
Volume 56 (2021)
Volume 56 (2021) Issue 3-4 , (July-2021 to December-2021)
July-December
Editorial
C. N. Srinath
Trends and Transitions in Bengali Literature Between 1970 and 2020
by Sanjukta Dasgupta
Theorizing Nationalism: A Reading of Tagore’s Gora by Sonali Das
Tradition and Modernity: An Analysis of Satyajit Ray’s The Post Master by Sutanuka Ghosh Roy
Some thoughts on Bengali Poetry of the past 50 Years.
by Pinakesh Chandra Sarkar
Mahasweta Devi’s Operation? – Basahai Tudu : Rhetoric of Dalit Aesthetics in Bangla Sahitya by Utpal Rakshit
Bengali Autobiographies (1970-2020)
by Tirthankar Chattopadhyay
Appendix
a. A Report
b. Some Response
c. CDN : A Tribute
Mohan Ramanan
Book Reviews
- Basavaraj Naikar
- C T Indra
- Tej N Dhar
- C. R. Visweswara Rao
- Ragini Ramachandra
- Uma Ram and K S Ram
- B Gopal Rao
- Shyamala A Narayan
Volume 56 (2021) Issue 1-2 , (January-2021 to June-2021)
January-June
In Memoriam : V S Naipaul, Two Visions : Exile and the Kingdom by Satendra Nandan
Shades of Postcolonial Trauma in Nervous Conditions by Tej N. Dhar
Rabindranath Tagore’s “The Religion of the Forest” as a Study in Ecocriticism by Panchali Mukherjee
Gandhi At First Sight by C. Naganna
Unveiling The Past : A reading of Sudhir Kakar's The Crimson Throne (2010) and Jaipal Singh's Samru (2004) by Vijay Sheshadri
Book Reviews
- Chandrasekharaiah
- Ragini Ramachandra
- K.S. Ram
- Uma Ram
- Mohan Ramanan
- Mahesh Kumar Dey
- Ashok Kumar Mohanty
Readers’ Response
Dhvanyaloka News
Volume 55 (2020)
Volume 55 (2020) Issue 3-4 , (July-2020 to December-2020)
July-December
Editorial
Can Human Behaviour be Changed? – For a Better World! – Alfred Korzybski’s General Semantics by TRS Sharma
The Complex Web: In Search of New Definitions by Jasbir Jain
Contextualizing Tone and Tenor in Shashi Deshpande’s Creative-Critical Autobiography, Listen to Me by Bijay Kumar Das
Feminist Consciousness: A Study Through the Selected Novels of Anita Desai by Sidharth Sankar Mohapatra
The Bohemian Academician: ‘Travelling’ with Pico Iyer by Imran Mulla
Vairamuthu: Poet as the Voice of the Voiceless by P. Marudanayagam
Book Reviews
- C. R. Vishweswara Rao
- Tej N Dhar
- Mohan Ramanan
- Vijayavamana
- Chandrasekharaiah
- N. S. Gundur
- Mahendra Kumar Mishra
- Ragini Ramachandra
- Basavaraj Naikar
- Uma Ram
- Vijay Sheshadri
- K. S. Ram
Volume 55 (2020) Issue 1-2 Comb. , (January-2020 to June-2020)
Jan-Jun
Introductory
by C. N. Srinath
The Quest for Peacocks : Manoj Das's Chasing the Rainbow by R. Ramachandra
Nature and Society in Manoj Das' novel Cyclones by AnilKumar S. R.
Lone Fox Dancing, My Autobiography by Ruskin Bond: Some first impressions by Ragini Ramachandra
A First Response to Pico Iyer's two Novels: The Man Within My Head (2012) Cuba and the Night (1996)
by C. Naganna
Of Space, Place and Travel : Pico Iyer's Journeys into Travel Writing by Sindhu J.
Neelum Saran Gour : An Introduction by Shyamala A. Narayan
Book Reviews
- Ragini Ramachandra
- Basavaraj Naikar
- N.S. Raghavan
- Ashish Kumar Pathak
- S. Annapoorni
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 Ragini Ramachandra
Dhvanyaloka at 40 by C. N. Srinath
Volume 54 (2019)
Volume 54 (2019) Issue 3-4 Comb. , (July-2019 to December-2019)
Jul-Dec. 2019
Colonialism, Postcolonialism, English Teaching and Research in India by Rajnath
Indian Novel Today by T.R.S. Sharma
The Enigma of Comrade Kirillov: Some Random Thoughts by Ragini Ramachandra
Trauma and Turbulence in African American Drama: Amiri Baraka's The Slave by Sudarsan Sahoo
Meeting F. R. Leavis by Rajnath
The Act of finding oneself : Journey of Women in Divakaruni's Before We Visit the Goddess and The Forest of Enchantmen by Archana Srinath
Body is the soul – The New Mantra of the Millennium Market by C. N. Srinath
The underpinnings of the Biblical Motif of Satan's Fall in Salman Rushdie's Fiction. by Suchitra Awasthi
Shakespeare's Hamlet and Bharata's Natyasastra on Drama
by A. P. Dani
Book Reviews
Ragini Ramachandra
K. S. Ram
C. R. Visweswara Rao
Basavaraj Naikar
Raghu Venkatachalaiah
Volume 54 (2019) Issue 1-2 , (January-2019 to June-2019)
January-June
Editorial by C.N. Srinath
M. G. Vassanji’s The Gunny Sack and The Art of Interplaying History by Manjula K. T. and Babu Gaonkar
Lorrain Hansberry and Ntozake Shange: The Racial Class, Culture and Conflict by Sudarsan Sahoo
Literary Critical Tradition today: Plural and Multicultural by C.N. Srinath
An Appraisal of Habib Tanvir’s Theatre: Intersection of the Folk and the Political by Shyam Babu
Home, Exile and the ‘Other' in Agha Shahid Ali by Asima Sarkar
Autobiographical Mnemonic: The Politics of Remembering in Ruskin Bond’s Scenes from a Writer’s Life by Patil Sangita Sharnappa
Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns – A Saga of Gender Parity by Salia Rex
Badal Sircar’s Mad Horse: a study of existential crisis and psychological despair by Aditi Banerjee
Theorizing Cosmopolitanism and Comparative Literature by Bijay Kumar Das
Amitav Ghosh’s Dancing in Cambodia, At Large in Burma : A late review by C.N. Srinath
Report & Announcement
A Report on the Proceedings of the C.N. Sanjay Birth Anniversary Seminar on Classical Kannada Literature and Some Literary Texts in English held at Dhvanyaloka, Mysore (Nov.10th 2018)
Ragini Ramachandra
Volume 53 (2018)
Volume 53 (2018) Issue 3-4 , (July-2018 to December-2018)
Jul-Dec
Reinventing the Grand Narrative: An Overviewof Contemporary Malayalam Novel by E.V.Ramakrishnan
Translation as Literary History: Reflections on Modernity and Malayalam Literature by P P Raveendran
The Evolution of Malayalam Drama: A Subaltern Perspective by P. N. Prakash
Millennial Short Fiction in Malayalam: A Qualitative Reflection by Arunlal K
Protagonists in Malayalam Dalit Fictional Narratives by M. Dasan
Literary Criticism in Malayalam by P.P. Ajayakumar
A Backward Reading of the Multiple Manifestations of Malayalam Poetry by A.C. Sreehari
Malayalam Novel: An Overview by Reji A.L.
Revisiting Traditional ‘Mappilappattukal’ by Abida Farooqui
BOOK REVIEWS
C.R. Visweswara Rao
Rajender Kaur
S. Ramaswamy
T. Viswanadha Rao
Tej N Dhar
Volume 53 (2018) Issue 1-2 , (January-2018 to June-2018)
Vol.53 (1-2)2018
Editorial
by C.N. Srinath
Art-speech and The Man Who Died by N. R. Hayward
Lawrence, Leavis And Art-speech: The Evolution and Application of a Reflexive, Critical Concept
by Paul Filmer
Notes on Lawrence’s The Man Who Died by Philip Bufithis
Max Plowman, Jessie Chambers and D.H. Lawrence by Malcolm Pittock
A Note on Kazuo Ishiguro : The Nobel Laureate for Literature 2017 by S. Ramaswamy
“These grand and fatal movements toward death”: Apocalyptic Visions in Robinson Jeffers’s Poetry
by Pradip Mondal
Masculinisation: The Gender Identity of a Professional Woman in Churchill’s Top Girls by V.Vijayalakshmi and Geetha Senthilkumar
Plato versus Derrida: Philosophy versus Literature by Rajnath
Book Reviews by S. Ramaswamy, S. K. Sharma, Tej N Dhar, Ragini Ramachandra, Shyamala A. Narayan, H.V. Nagaraja Rao
A Report on the proceedings of the C.N. Sanjay Birth Anniversary Seminar on Malayalam Literature at Dhvanyaloka, Mysore, Nov. 8-9, 2017 by Ragini Ramachandra
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