Novelist Tagore : gender and modernity in selected texts /
Rabindranath Tagore is widely regarded as a poet-philosopher and educationist, but his novels remain a relatively underexplored aspect of his oeuvre. Focusing on gender and modernity as key features of his fiction, this book charts Tagore's evolution as a novelist from self-conscious psychologi...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New Delhi :
Routledge,
2013.
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| Summary: | Rabindranath Tagore is widely regarded as a poet-philosopher and educationist, but his novels remain a relatively underexplored aspect of his oeuvre. Focusing on gender and modernity as key features of his fiction, this book charts Tagore's evolution as a novelist from self-conscious psychologizing in Chokher Bali to an engagement with nationalism in Gora and Ghare Baire (The Home and the World), a portrayal of asceticism and desire in Chaturanga (Quartet), an analysis of marriage, sexuality and change in Bengali society in Yogayog (Relationships), an effervescent fusion of social satire and literary experimentation in Shesher Kabita (Farewell Song) and an intense, dramatic study of love, politics and terrorism in Char Adhyay (Four Chapters). |
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| Physical Description: | 160 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 146-154) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0415840430 9780415840439 |