Towards an Ethics and Aesthetics of the Future (Rabindranatha Tagore 1930-41) - Couverture rigide

Shirshendu Chakrabarti

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 9382396322 ISBN 13 : 9789382396321

Editeur : Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, 2015

Synopsis

Language: English
Pages: 93



About the Author


Shirshedndu Chakrabarti is a Professor in the Department of English, University of Delhi. Education at Presidency College. Calcutta and St Stephen's College, Delhi, he went on an Inlaks scholarship to Trinity College, Oxford, where he completed a D. Phil. On Jonathan Swift in 1981. Before teaching at the English Department, Delhi University, he taught at St Stephen's College and Jadavpur University (Kolkata). He was a Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellow for post-doctoral studies at Trinity College, Oxford (1986-87) and a Visiting Fellow at Jaaharlal Nehru University (1989) and Jadavpur University (1994). He was also invited to a Tagore Fellowship at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla (2012-13). He has published on diverse areas of English / European literature from the Renaissance to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and on the visual arts. He has also published extensively (both in Bengali and English) on Modern Bengali literature, including Tagore and translated poetry from Bengali to English and English to Bengali. He has two volumes of poetry in Bengali to his credit. He is particularly interested in the mutually invigorating relationship of literature and intellectual history, of philosophical questions and artistic form or the larger complex of style.

Preface

The germ of this project lies in my perception of the sustained mood of unattached observation stemming, as it particularly-though not exclusively-the poetry of the closing decade of Tagore's life. While analysing this stylistic tendency, I attempt to extend my argument to an exploration of the relationship between abstract ideas and their reincarnation in artistic from. How is the abstract experiential authentici

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9382396322
• ISBN 13: 9789382396321
• Reliure: Hardcover
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