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The Literary Thing: History, Poetry and the Making of a Modern Cultural Sphere - Couverture souple

Chaudhuri, Rosinka

 
9783034317603: The Literary Thing: History, Poetry and the Making of a Modern Cultural Sphere
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 3034317603 ISBN 13 : 9783034317603
Editeur : Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2014

Synopsis

The imponderable value of the literary to critical discourse is given pre-eminence in this study of cultural turning points in the history of Bengali literature, so that we might investigate the place of the aesthetic in the composition of a literary culture without denuding it of its significance and aura or, for that matter, its historicity. Mapping a fifty-year period that is fundamental to any understanding of nineteenth-century Bengal – 1831 to 1881 – this book focuses on literary debates generated around the works of Iswarchandra Gupta, Rangalal Bandyopadhyay, Madhusudan Datta, Hemchandra Bandyopadhyay, Nabinchandra Sen, and Rabindranath Tagore. It thereby investigates the place of the aesthetic, the political, and the collective in the making of a modern cultural sphere and the relevance and significance of the literary to our self-making as readers today. Providing a new understanding of the interactive, living, and cataclysmic nature of events of the period which has been identified and then reviled as a period of renaissance or false renaissance, The Literary Thing reveals how this unique period holds the key to understanding the shape of the Indian modern.

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À propos de l'auteur

Rosinka Chaudhuri completed her DPhil in English from the University of Oxford and is now Professor of Cultural Studies at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. She has also been a visiting fellow at the Southern Asian Institute, Columbia University, and Charles Wallace Fellow at Cambridge University.

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Éditeur
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3034317603
ISBN 13 
9783034317603
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
400
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Personne responsable
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