Saligrama K. Aithal, (aka S. Krishnamoorthy Aithal) is an author, scholar, and teacher.
Since 1995 Member, Modern Language Association of America (USA)
1992 Senior Fulbright Fellow, The Newberry Library, Chicago
1991 Visiting Scholar, The Northrop Frye Centre, Victoria University, University
of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
1968- 69 Fulbright Scholar, Indiana University, Bloomington
Publications:
Books
Many in One, a Collection of Short Stories, AuthorHouse, 2013. One in Many, a Collection of Short Stories, AuthorHouse, 2013 The Importance of Northrop Frye, Humanities Press, 1993. Access through English, Book III. (with P. P. Sah).1988 Access through English, Book II. (with P. P. Sah).1987 Access through English, Book I. (with P. P. Sah).1986
Articles
"Prayers/ Insults, Blessings/ Curses, and Conditional Clauses in The Mahabharata." Indian Literature 250 (2009): 132- 41.
"Humor in the House of Contemporary Indian-English Fiction." Commonwealth Novel in English (CNIE) 9- 10 (2001): 30- 67.
“Juneteenth: A Novel for the New Millennium.” American Studies International 38 (2000): 115- 21.
"The Novel Goes Global: Bharati Mukherjee's Leave it to me." American Studies International 37 (1999): 99- 106.
"Willa Cather's America: A Nation of Nations." Literature and Ethnic Discrimination. Ed. Michael J. Meyer. New York: Rodopi Press, 1997. 31- 47.
"Getting Out of One's Skin and Being the Only Person Inside: Toni Morrison's Tar Baby." American Studies International 34 (1996): 76- 85.
"Getting Past the Antithetical Way of Stating the Problem: Northrop Frye's Critical Path." The Importance of Northrop Frye. Ed. S. K. Aithal. 107- 35.
"To be a nativist or to stay put as an Indian?" The Literary Criterion 33 (1994)
"Immigrants in Cather's America." SPAN (January 1991): 44- 55.
"Black Aesthetic Theory: An Anti-Formalist Jihad." Indian Journal of American Studies 18 (1988): 35-40.
"Woman Crossed in Love: The Treatment of Unrequited Love in Women's Literature." Journal of South-Asian Literature 23 (1988): 115- 18.
"Indo-British Encounter in Kamala Markandaya's Novels." Journal of South-Asian Literature 22 (1987): 49- 59.
"Nasnaga's Indians' Summer in an International Perspective." Southwestern American Literature 11(1986): 6- 14.
"The Origin of Whitman's ‘Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking’." American Notes & Queries 23 (1985): 109- 111.
"The Redemptive Return: Scott Momaday's House Made of Dawn." North Dakota Quarterly 53 (1985): 160- 72.
"In the Image of the Buddha, the Compassionate One: Aldous Huxley's Portraits of the Enlightened." Comaparativus 1 (1985): 10- 16.
"Shall a Polluter of a Pariah Protest? The Limits of the Upper Caste Indian Literary Imagination." New Quest 48 (1984): 337- 45.
"The Ballad of the East and the West Updated: Anita Desai's Bye-bye, Blackbird." Commonwealth Novel in English 3 (1984): 101- 108.
"Time Shifts in Aldous Huxley's Eyeless in Gaza." Explicator 42 (1984): 46- 49.
"The Stylistics of Archibald A. Hill." Language and Style 16 (1983): 411- 19.
"Aldous Huxley." Critical Survey of Long Fiction, IV. Ed. Frank N. Magill. La Canada, California: Salem Press Inc., 1983. 1398- 1412.
"American Ethnic Fiction in the Universal Human Context." American Studies International 25 (1983): 61- 66.
"The Redemptive Return: Leslie Silko's Ceremony." Southwestern American Literature 9 (1983): 32- 44.
"How F. R. Leavis Views the Identity of a Literary Work." The Journal of Literary Theory 4 (1983): 23- 26.
"East-West Encounter in Four Indo-English Novels." ACCLALS Bulletin 6 (1982): 1- 16.
"Intercultural Relationships--Two Encounters, One Ending." Journal of South-Asian Literature 17 (1982): 251- 57.
"The British and the Anglo-Indian Encounter in Malgonkar's Combat of Shadows." The International Fiction Review 9 (1982): 54- 57.
"Of the Bone and the Flesh: Kamala Markandaya's Possession." Journal of Literary Studies 4(1981): 45-52.
"The Phenomenological Aspect of F. R. Leavis's Criticism." The Mahanadi Review 4 & 5 (1981): 5- 13.
"Of Culture and Cadaver: U. R. Anantha Murthy's Samskara." Journal of South-Asian Literature 16 (1981): 83- 88.
"F. R. Leavis on the Function of Criticism." English Studies 62 (1981): 299- 309.
"Literature on the Future and Its Bearing on Futures Research." World Futures 17 (1981): 91- 101.
"Interracial and Intercultural Relationships in Raja Rao's The Serpent and the Rope." International Fiction Review 7 (1980): 94- 98. Excerpted in Contemporary Literary Criticism. Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1982.
"Typewriters in the Making of The Waste Land." Studies in Bibliography 33 (1980): 191- 93.
"Indian Allusions in Ulysses." Eire-Ireland 14 (1979): 510- 12.
"Allusions to the Buddha in Ulysses." James Joyce Quarterly 16 (1979): 510- 12.
"Conrad"s Lord Jim." The Explicator 38 (1979): 3- 4.
"Criticism on the Couch: Coleridge as a Psychological Critic." Cygnus 1 (1979): 1- 18.
"Shivaram Karanth's Ade Uru: Ade Mara." Indian Literature (1979): 12- 20.
"The Use of Interpretation in the Criticism of F. R. Leavis." The British Journal of Aesthetics 18 (1978): 342- 44.
"F. R. Leavis on Criticism and Theory." The Panjab University Research Bulletin 9 (1978): 17- 34.
"A Study of F. R. Leavis's Concern with Tradition." Journal of Literary Studies 1 (1978): 45- 71.
"The Relevance of F. R. Leavis to the Practice of Criticism in India." The Literary Criterion 13 (1978): 1- 5.
"Leavis on the Social and Cultural Function of Criticism." The Journal of the School of Languages (1977- 78): 48- 68.
"Leavis as an Analytic Critic." The Literary Criterion 4 (1977): 71- 84.
"Look Back in Anger in Perspective." Bulletin of the Department of English. University of Calcutta 13 (1977- 78): 16- 21.
"A Postscript to Criticism on Conrad's Lord Jim." English Studies 57 (1976): 425- 31.
"The Theme of Personal Relationships in E. M. Forster's A Passage to India." Bulletin of the Department of English. University of Calcutta 11 (1975- 76): 82- 94.
"Shakespeare's Moral Outlook." The Literary Criterion 6 (1963): 131- 36.
"Reflections on Analytic Criticism." Literary Criticism: European and Indian Traditions. Ed. C. D. Narasimhaiah. Mysore: University of Mysore, 1960.180- 91.