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'''V. C. Sreejan''' is a literary critic writing in [[Malayalam]].<ref name="NatarajanNelson1996">{{cite book|author1=Nalini Natarajan|author2=Emmanuel Sampath Nelson|title=Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1lTnv6o-d_oC&pg=PA202|year=1996|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-28778-7|pages=202–}}</ref> Born in 1951, he retired in 2007 after working as Reader in [[English language|English]] in [[Government Brennen College, Thalassery]]. He has published eleven books in Malayalam. In 2003 he was awarded the Kerala Sahithya Akademi's C.B. Kumar Award' for his work ''Arthantharanyasm''.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.hindu.com/2003/03/30/stories/2003033004580400.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121106233831/http://www.hindu.com/2003/03/30/stories/2003033004580400.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=6 November 2012|title=P. Parameswaran wins Akademi award |date=30 March 2003|newspaper=[[The Hindu]]|access-date=3 February 2010}}</ref>

==Works==
* ''Chinthayile Roopakangal'', (1991) is a collection of articles on the role of metaphors in [[philosophy]], [[psychoanalysis]] and [[literary theory]]. It includes two introductory essays on [[Jacques Derrida]].The last two essays discuss novels by [[O. V. Vijayan]] and [[M. T. Vasudevan Nair]].<ref name="Chinthayile Roopakangal">{{Cite web |url=http://122.165.117.71/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=59622&query_desc=au%253A%2522V.%2520C.%2520Sreejan%2522 |title=Chinthayile Roopakangal |last=V. C. Sreejan |date=1992 |publisher=Sameeksha |language=ml |access-date=2019-01-22}}</ref>
* ''Pravachakante Maranam'', (1993) includes an early piece on the [[Absurdism|absurd]] (1972), an essay on Bertolt Brecht's theatre, an introduction to Brecht's ''[[Threepenny Novel]]'', a study of Ambikasuthan Mangad's story and an essay on the politics of [[deconstruction]].<ref name="Pravachakante Maranam">{{Cite web |url=http://122.165.117.71/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=61296&query_desc=au%253A%2522V.%2520C.%2520Sreejan%2522 |title=Pravachakante Maranam |last=V. C. Sreejan |date=1993 |publisher=Sameeksha |language=ml |access-date=2019-01-22}}</ref>
* ''Kathayum Pratyayasastravum'',(1993) contains an introduction to Western [[Marxist literary criticism]], and an introduction to [[structuralism]]. It includes an essay on the ''[[Dhvani]]'' theory which argues that Dhvani is the same as [[metaphor]] in the broad sense of the term, an essay on the ideological underpinnings of some short stories and essays on [[T. Padmanabhan]] and [[Paul Zacharia]].
* ''Vaakkum Vaakkum'', (1996) is devoted to the reading of poems by [[Vyloppillil Sreedhara Menon]], [[P. Kunhiraman Nair]], [[K. Ayyappa Panicker]] and [[Kadammanitta Ramakrishnan]]. The other works discussed include novels by [[O. V. Vijayan]], [[V. M. Basheer]] and short stories by T. Padmanabhan and Zacharia.<ref name="Vaakkum Vaakkum">{{Cite web |url=http://122.165.117.71/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=66597&query_desc=au%253A%2522V.%2520C.%2520Sreejan%2522 |title=Vaakkum Vaakkum |last=V. C. Sreejan |date=1997 |publisher=Sameeksha |language=ml |access-date=2019-01-22}}</ref>
* ''Arthantaranyasam'', (1999) discusses the relevance of the classical Indian concepts of [[Dhvani]] and [[Rasa (aesthetics)|Rasa]]. It begins with an analysis of the theory of [[metaphor]] and its relationship with the concepts of [[Freudian]] [[unconscious mind|Unconscious]] and [[Marxist philosophy|Marxian]] concept of [[ideology]].It is argued that in their classical form Dhvani and Rasa are not useful in reading modern texts.Rasa is rejected as such, and the Dhvani theory is given a more prosaic interpretation along the lines suggested by [[Mukulabhatta]]. Instead of reviving these theories, these are to be destroyed and a new concept can be created out of their ruins.<ref name="Arthantaranyasam">{{Cite web |url=http://122.165.117.71/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=71921&query_desc=au%253A%2522V.%2520C.%2520Sreejan%2522 |title=Arthantaranyasam |last=V. C. Sreejan |date=1999 |publisher=Current Books |language=ml |access-date=2019-01-22}}</ref>
* ''Aadhunikotharam: Vimarsanavum Vikalanavum'', (1999) is a closely argued response to some [[Malayalam]] critics and writers who maintain that [[Malayalam literature]] has already entered into its post-modern phase. With reference to the Western writers, it is argued that this claim is not true.<ref name="Aadhunikotharam: Vimarsanavum Vikalanavum">{{Cite web |url=http://122.165.117.71/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=72975&query_desc=au%253A%2522V.%2520C.%2520Sreejan%2522 |title=Aadhunikotharam: Vimarsanavum Vikalanavum |last=V. C. Sreejan |date=1999 |publisher=National Book Stall |language=ml |access-date=2019-01-22}}</ref>
* ''Vimarsanatmaka Siddhantam'', (1999) is an expository book on the work of [[Frankfurt School]].<ref name="Vimarsanatmaka Siddhantam">{{Cite web |url=http://122.165.117.71/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=73456&query_desc=au%253A%2522V.%2520C.%2520Sreejan%2522 |title=Vimarsanatmaka Siddhantam |last=V. C. Sreejan |date=1999 |publisher=D. C. Books |language=ml |access-date=2019-01-22}}</ref>
* ''Novel Vayanakal'', (2003) reads 12 Malayalam novels without using many critical tool borrowed from the west. Part of the text itself is taken as the model for reading and interpreting it. It brings out relays of meanings across the works. It reveals a current of non-religious [[spirituality]] running through the works read.<ref name="Novel Vayanakal">{{cite book | url=https://www.amazon.in/Novel-vayanakal-V-C-Sreejan/dp/B007E4WQFM/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1548146141&sr=1-1&refinements=p_27%3AV.C.Sreejan | title=Novel Vayanakal | publisher=DC Books | date=2019 | access-date=January 22, 2019 | author=V. C. Sreejan | ASIN=B007E4WQFM}}</ref>
* ''Prathivadangal'', (2004) is a thoroughgoing criticism of Marxian philosophical concepts.
* ''Arthavadangal'', (2006: Mathrubhumi Books, Kozhikode)contains essays on Death, Dhvani theory. Arthavadam, M. P. Paul and William Hudson, Appan Thampuran's ''Bhutarayar'', Venmani Mahan's ''Pooraprabandham'' etc.<ref name="Arthavadangal">{{Cite book |url=https://keralabookstore.com/book/arthavadangal/3216/ |title=Arthavadangal |last=V. C. Sreejan |publisher=Mathrubhumi Books |isbn=8182643368 |page=160}}</ref>
* ''Rahukalam'', (2007: Sign Books, Thiruvananthapuram) is a collection of essays on Joseph Muliyil's ''Sukumari'', Medieval Malayalam poetry, Asan's ''Duravastha'', N. Prabhakaran's ''Bhutabhumi'', poetry of Rafeeq Ahmed and [[Miguel de Cervantes]]'s ''[[Don Quixote]]''
* ''Adikkurippukal'' (2018: Logos Books, Pattambi), a collection of book reviews.<ref>{{Cite book |url=http://122.165.117.71/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=173766&query_desc=pb%253ALogos%2520Books |title=Adikkurippukal |last=Sreejan |first=V. C. |date=2018 |publisher=Logos Books |isbn=9789386744852 |edition=1 |location=Palakkad |language=ml}}</ref>

Forthcoming:
''Chinthayude Mayalokangal''(Kairali Books, Kannur)

==Awards==
Sreejan was awarded the C. B. Kumar Award in 2003, and the Kerala Sahithya Akademi Award for Literary Criticism in 2006, but declined them. He also was awarded the Narendra Prasad Foundation Award for criticism in 2007.

==References==
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==External links==
* {{cite book|author=Mini Chandran|title=The Writer, the Reader and the State: Literary Censorship in India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wxtBDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT163|date=22 May 2017|publisher=SAGE Publishing India|isbn=978-93-86446-09-1|pages=163–}}
* {{cite book|author=Mervin Shinoj Boas|title=Encounter Between Marxian Philosophy and Theology of Humanisation in India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wNPh13UumdsC&pg=PA23|year=2007|publisher=ISPCK|isbn=978-81-7214-984-0|pages=23–}}

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