This book introduces post-graduate students and researchers to the basics and techniques of research methods in English literature and language. It covers qualitative and quantitative methodology and includes the following topics:

• Definition, aims and objectives of research

• Materials and tools of research

• Background knowledge of the researcher

• Methods of research

(i) Biography

(ii) Bibliography and textual criticism

(iii) Modern critical theories

• The literary thesis

• Bibliographical references

The book will be most useful for teachers, students, program administrators and researchers in their research work. It can be used as a basic text for research methodology paper in M.A. and M.Phil. and pre-Ph.D. courses.