. Comparative Literature : Retrospect and Prospect-Bijay Kumar Das; 2. Modernism and Postmodernism in India and the West : A Comparison-K. Chellappan; 3. Literary Ontology in India and the West : A Study in Comparative Poetics-Haldhar Panda; 4. Statement Poetry : The Name, Nature and Constraints-R.S. Pathak; 5. Derrida and the Indian Theory of Language-Mohit K. Ray; 6. Victor Shklovsky, Jacques Derrida and Metaphor-Rajnath; 7. Hopkins's Concept of 'Inscape' and Anandavardhana's Theory of 'Dhvani' : A Comparative Approach-Rama Kundu; 8. T.S. Eliot and Sri Aurobindo on Poets and Poetry-Bijay Kumar Das; 9. Feminine Sensibility at Work : A Comparative Study of Kamala Das and Judith Wright-A.N. Dwivedi; 10. Kamala Das and Sylvia Plath : Aspects of Feminine Sensibility-Mithilesh K. Pandey; 11. Three Heroines : Indulekha, Sita and Gauri — A Study in Feminine Consciousness-P.K. Rajan; 12. Malignant Trinity : A Study of Iago, Chillingworth and Claggart as Villains-

Comparative literature contains fifteen scholarly papers on theory and practice of this body of literature in our time. It makes an attempt to analyse Eastern and Western poetics, theory of language, modernism and post-modernism on a comparative basis. Texts of individual authors and critics like R.K. Narayan and chinua Achebe, Kamala Das and Judith Wright, T.S. Eliot and Sri Aurobindo have been analysed with insight and precision. This book, as it were, makes an agenda of comparative literary studies in India for the new millennium. This is a well researched and invaluable book on comparative literature.