Rabindranath Tagore in the 21st Century Theoretical Renewals

Rabindranath Tagore in the 21st Century Theoretical Renewals / edited by Debashish Banerji.

This critical volume addresses the question of Rabindranath Tagore's relevance for postmodern and postcolonial discourse in the twenty-first century. The volume includes contributions by leading contemporary scholars on Tagore and analyses Tagore's literature, music, theatre, aesthetics, p...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Banerji, Debashish (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Delhi : Springer India : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
Edition:1st ed. 2015.
Series:Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures, 7
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Philosophy, Asian.
Cultural studies.
Philology.
Linguistics.
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Introduction: Theory and the Performative Politics of Punctuation
  • Chapter 2. The Rustle of Language
  • Chapter 3. Translating Tagore: Shifting Paradigms
  • Chapter 4. Two Giant Brothers
  • Chapter 5. Tagore’s Idea of “World Literature”
  • Chapter 6. Rethinking Cosmopolitan Modernity: Rabindranath Tagore on Nationalism and Internationalism
  • Chapter 7. The Bauhaus, Rabindranath Tagore and his Paintings
  • Chapter 8. Why Ratan fell in Love Unnoticed and Why Ashu was Ashamed: Tagore’s Short Fiction and the Ethics of Feeling
  • Chapter 9. Remembering Robi: Childhood, Freedom and Rabindranath Tagore
  • Chapter 10. The Educational Efforts of Rabindranath Tagore
  • Chapter 11. The Delineation of the Female Subject in Rabindranath Tagore’s Novel Farewell, My Friend
  • Chapter 12. Gender, Nation, and the Vicissitudes of Kalpana: Choreographing Womanly Beauty in Tagore’s Dance Dramas
  • Chapter 13. Chitrangada and Contemporary Queer Appropriations of Tagore
  • Chapter 14. Tagore and the North-East: Dialectics of Human Intellection and the Nature of Aesthetic Reflection
  • Chapter 15. Rabindrasangeet and Modern Bengali Subjectivity
  • Chapter 16. Tagore and National Identity Formation in Bangladesh
  • Chapter 17. Tagore Through Portraits: An Intersubjective Picture Gallery
  • Chapter 18. The Unanswered Question:  Some Remarks on Tagore’s Late Style.

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