The Literary Thing; History, Poetry, and the Making of a Modern Literary Culture
ISBN: 9780198089667 | 019808966X
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 4/1/2013
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Exploring certain cultural turning points in the history of Bengali literature, this study investigates the place of the aesthetic, the political, and the collective in the composition of a literary culture; by doing so, it reveals the relevance and significance of this sphere to our self-making as Indians.
The nineteenth century in Bengal has been identified and then reviled as a period of renaissance or false renaissance. This study moves beyond those sterile parameters to provide a new understanding of the inter... MORE
The nineteenth century in Bengal has been identified and then reviled as a period of renaissance or false renaissance. This study moves beyond those sterile parameters to provide a new understanding of the inter... MORE
| Introduction | |
| Disjunctions, Conjunctions | |
| Reading Iswarchandra Gupta (1812-1859) / Poet of the Present: The Material Object in the World of Iswar Gupta | |
| 'Another Wonder of the Nineteenth Century': Rangalal Bandyopadhyay (1827-1887) | |
| Event, Anecdote, Iconicity: The Legend of Madhusudan Datta / Michael Madhusudan Datta and the Marxist Understanding of the 'Real Renaissance' in Bengal | |
| Hemchandra's Bharat Sang... MORE | |
| History in Poetry: Nabinchandra Sen's Palashir Yuddha (1875) and the Question of Truth / The Curious Case of Nabinchandra Sen and the Text-Book Committee: An Investigation into Hindu/Muslim Representations | |
| Rabindranath's Early Style and Reconstruction of the Past | |
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