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The essays in this volume, which lie at the intersection of the study of literature, social theory, and intellectual history, locate serious reflections on modernity's complexities in the vibrant currents of modern Indian literature, particularly in the realms of fiction, poetry, and autobiogra...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kaviraj, Sudipta (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2015]
Edición:Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only
Temas:
Bengali literature > History and criticism.
Literature and society.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Literature as the Mirror of Modernity
  • 1. On the Advantages of Being a Barbarian
  • 2. Literature and the Moral Imaginations of Modernity
  • 3. The Two Histories of Literary Culture in Bengal
  • 4. A Strange Love of Abstractions
  • 5. Tagore and Transformations in the Ideals of Love
  • 6. The Poetry of Interiority The Creation of a Language of Modern Subjectivity in Tagore's Poetry
  • 7. Laughter and Subjectivity
  • 8. Reading a Song of the City
  • 9. The Art of Despair
  • 10. The Invention of Private Life
  • 11. The Second Mahabharata
  • Index

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