Abstract: Literature, like life, is a continuous stream—often an under ground river that is unseen but whose influence is felt. The processes of thinking, receiving impressions, imaginatively pic turing events and characters goes on all the time, although actual literary composition or publication in magazines or in book-form may be no more than fitful. Isolating a segment of 12 months in the continuous life-stream is a matter of convenience, and has no absolute validity either as literary history or as criticism. Because 1964 is the Shakespeare quatercentenary year, even 1963 witnessed the first rumblings of the event. The Literary Criterion (Mysore) brought out a special number carrying articles by scholars Western (L.C. Knights, William Walsh, J.C. Rollo and others) and Indian (V. K. Gokak, K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar, Armando Menezes, C P. Ramaswami Aiyar and others). At the 14th All-India English Teachers' Conference held in Decem ber 1963 at Jaipur under the presidentship of Professor K. R. Srinivasa Iyengar, a symposium on Recent Trends in Shakespeare Criticism was held, initiated by S. R. Swaminathan of Saugor University. There were special lectures by V.Y. Kantak (Baroda) and John F. Danby on the Image of the 'theatre' in Shakespeare and on the contribution of Wilson Knight to Shakespeare Criticism. The Conference also conducted discussions on American Fiction in the 20th century and Research and Literary Enjoyment. There was, besides, during the summer, a seminar on American literature and history at Mussoorie, organised by the United States Educational Foundation in India.
Publication Year: 1962
Publication Date: 1962-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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