Contents
The fifty-two critical studies are arranged in six thematic parts. Original titles, citations, analytical registers and evidence are preserved as constituent works.
Part I · Critical Theory and Perspectives on Criticism
01 Treatises, Essays and Literary Criticism: An Integrated Critical Examination 7
02 Evidence-Based Parallel Narratology 151
03 Ramanand Jha “Raman”: His Work and Its Boundaries 177
04 Akhiyāsal: An Extended Critical Appreciation 188
05 Hiāol: A Multimethod Critical Appreciation 227
06 A History of Angika Literature 260
07 Navya-Nyāya and the Offshore Gambling Network 301
08 The Translator 335
Part II · Stories, Short Fiction and Narrative Criticism
09 The World of Shubh Stories 359
10 Three Streams of Stories: Volume 1 360
11 Three Streams of Stories: Volume 2 387
12 Three Streams of Stories: Volume 3 416
13 A Trilogy of One Hundred Stories: Volume 1 437
14 A Trilogy of One Hundred Stories: Volume 2 463
15 A Trilogy of One Hundred Stories: Volume 3 493
16 The Other Side of Memory 515
17 Light: A Story Across Lifetimes 543
18 The Bumblebee Asleep upon the Mountain 567
19 Gajendra Thakur’s 82 Selected Stories 586
Part III · Studies of Novels and Extended Narratives
20 Five Percent Darkness 622
21 Kurukshetram of the Inner Mind: A Multilayered Epic Narrative 654
22 The Name Written Within a Leaf 680
23 The Seventh Witness 696
24 The Water Register 719
25 Code Name: Crocodile in the Depths 745
26 Bijji: Among the Crocodiles 765
27 A Thousand Floods 829
28 The Thousand-Headed One 855
29 A Water Burial Among the Crocodiles 877
30 A Water Burial Among the Crocodiles: Young Readers’ Edition 911
31 A Water Burial Among the Crocodiles: Children’s Edition 960