The lamp and the jar: exploration of new horizons in literary criticism/ essays by Krishna Rayan ; compiled and edited by Krishna S. Arjunwadkar

Rasa-Dhvani and present-day literary theory and criticism -- Literary theory and Indian critical practice -- Towards a rewritten Indian poetic -- Statement and suggestion in modern theory -- The competent reader -- Resistance in reading -- Laksana - metaphoric and metonymic -- Laksana and deconstruction -- The object-emotion relationship in Indian and Western literary theories -- Vibhavas or objects -- The making of a theory -- Towards an Indian critical tradition for Indian writing in English -- Indian English poetry and the Indian poetic -- The tendril and the root - A study of Jayanta Mahapatra's relationship -- Suggestion or statement? - three contemporary cases -- The other Samskara -- Fear in the way - A reading of murder in the Cathedral -- Rasa-dhvani in the plays of Shakespeare -- Bharata today - an analysis of a Sinhala play -- The development of Indian Literary Theory -- "The Fire Sermon" - A reading -- Translating Sanskrit critical terms -- Suggestion across Asian Literatures --The teaching of Literary Theory