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The invention of private life : literature and ideas /
How does modern politics affect the personality of a sensitive individual? Is love possible between intensely self-conscious people, and how do individuals cope with the transience of affections or the fragility of social ties? Kaviraj argues that these inquiries inform the heart of modern Indian li...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2015]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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: The Making of a Language of Patriotism in Modern Bengali
- 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: The Creation of a Language of Modern Subjectivity in Tagore's Poetry
- 7. Laughter and Subjectivity: The Self-Ironical Tradition in Bengali Literature
- 8. Reading a Song of the City: Images of the City in Literature and Films
- 9. The Art of Despair: The Sense of the City in Modern Bengali Poetry
- 10. The Invention of Private Life: Reading of Sibnath Sastri's Autobiography
- 11. The Second Mahabharata
- Index.