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Realism in the twentieth-century Indian novel : colonial difference and literary form /
This book shows how realism in twentieth-century Indian literature functioned as a mode of experimentation and aesthetic innovation.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; REALISM IN THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY INDIAN NOVEL; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Realism in the Colony; REALISM IN THEORY; "THE CONCAVE MIRROR"; MODERNITY AND DESIRE; "A WHOLE INSIGNIFICANT FIGURE"; CHARACTER AND TEMPORALITY; "AN UNWORKED FIELD": REALISM AND THE POTENTIAL; Part I Itineraries of Character; Chapter 2 The Contours of the Human; "AESTHETICS OF INCLUSION"; "BORN FOR THE YOKE"; "BY APPEARNCE ALONE": CHARACTER AS OUTERWEAR; "WITH GOBAR GONE": RESTLESSNESS AND EFFACEMENT AT THE LIMITS OF REALISM; Chapter 3 Experiments with Gandhi.
- CONTINGENCY AND SYMBOL: GANDHI IN THE NOVELFIGURES OF DISAPPOINTMENT; THE ALLURE OF THE SAINT; A GANDHIAN PARABLE; ASSUAGING DOUBT: AESTHETICS AND FORM IN THE INDIAN NOVEL; Part II History and the Future; Chapter 4 Staging Realism and the Ambivalence of Nationalism; REALISM AND PERFORMANCE; POETRY AND HISTORY; NOSTALGIA AS GESTURE; "THE BODY OF THE KING"; AMBIVALENT NATIONALISM; Chapter 5 Aimless Bildung and the Longing for Form; ALIENATION AND BILDUNG; TERROR AND CONFUSION; ARCHITECTURE OF THE URBAN SUBLIME; IMPENETRABLE INTERIORS; THE LURE OF OBJECTS; THE PROBLEM OF PATERNITY.
- BIRTH OF THE AUTHORAfterword: A Post-Realist Age; Notes; 1 REALISM IN THE COLONY; 2 THE CONTOURS OF THE HUMAN; 3 EXPERIMENTS WITH GANDHI; 4 STAGING REALISM AND THE AMBIVALENCE OF NATIONALISM; 5 AIMLESS BILDUNG AND THE LONGING FOR FORM; AFTERFWORD; Works Cited; Index.