Rabindranath Tagore: Universality and Tradition [Hardcover] Hogan, Patrick Colm and Pandit, Lalita

Hogan, Patrick Colm [Editor]; Pandit, Lalita [Editor];

ISBN 10: 0838639801 / ISBN 13: 9780838639801

Edité par Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Pr, 2003

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• Titre: Rabindranath Tagore: Universality and Tradition [Hardcover] Hogan, Patrick Colm and Pandit, Lalita
• Éditeur: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Pr
• Date de parution: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0838639801
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780838639801
• Reliure: Hardcover
• État de l'article: New

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This collection provides a lucid introduction for those unfamiliar with Tagore's work, while simultaneously presenting importnat new scholarship and novel interpretation. Rabindranath Tagore is considered the greatest modern writer of India. He is also one of the great social and political figures in modern Indian history. After he received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1913, Tagore's reputation in the West has been based primarily on his mystical poetry. But beyond poetry, Tagore wrote novels of social realism, treating nationalism, religious intolerance, and violence. He wrote analytic works on social reform, education, and science- even engaging in a brief dialogue with Albert Einstein. Without ignoring religion and mysticism, the essays in this collection concentrate on this "other Tagore." They explicate Tagore's writings in relation to its historical and literary context and, at the same time, draw out those aspects of Tagore's work that continue to bear on contemporary society.