Rabindranath Tagore : universality and tradition / edited by Patrick Colm Hogan and Lalita Pandit.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hogan, Patrick Colm.

Pandit, Lalita.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tagore, Rabindranath, 1861-1941--Criticism and interpretation.

Tagore, Rabindranath.

Tagore, Rabindranath, 1861-1941.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

297 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Madison, N.J. : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London : Associated University Presses, 2003.

Contents:

Introduction: Tagore and the Ambivalence of Commitment / Patrick Colm Hogan 9

Part I Disputing Received Wisdom: Politics, Education, and Science

"Nationalism Is a Great Menace": Tagore and Nationalism / Manju Radhakrishnan, Debasmita Roychowdhury 29

The Letters between Tagore and Noguchi, 1938 / Nobuko Yamasaki 41

Contesting the Boundaries between Home and the World: Tagore and the Construction of Citizenship / Bandana Purkayastha 49

Siksar Herfer: Education out of Whack / Kathleen M. O'Connell 65

Poetic Intuition and Cosmic Reality: Tagore as Preceptor of Scientific Rationalism / Monish R. Chatterjee 83

Consciousness and Reality: The Paradox of Objective Knowledge / Jonathan Shear 95

"We Think That We Think Clearly, But That's Only Because We Don't Think Clearly": Brian Josephson on Mathematics, Mind, and the Human World / Brian Josephson 107

Part II Complicating Literary Traditions

"Durga

for whom I would redden the earth with sacrificial offerings": Mythology, Nationalism, and Patriarchal Ambivalence in The Home and the World / Kathleen Koljian 119

Rabindranath Tagore's and Satyajit Ray's "New Woman": Writing and Rewriting Bimala / Cynthia A. Leenerts 129

The Psychology and Aesthetics of Love: Sringara, Bhavana, and Rasadhvani in Gora / Lalita Pandit 141

Gora, Jane Austen, and the Slaves of Indigo / Patrick Colm Hogan 175

"Some Imaginary 'Real' Thing": Racial Purity, the Mutiny, and the Nation in Tagore's Gora and Kipling's Kim / Jaya Mehta 199

Writing Across Empire: W. B. Yeats and Rabindranath Tagore / Joseph Lennon 213

Part III Living in the Home and in the World

"On the Seashore of Endless Worlds Children Meet": Childhood Loss and Mourning Reaction in Tagore's Poetry / Purnima Mehta 233

Tagore in the Warsaw Ghetto: Janusz Korczak's Post Office / Judith Plotz 250

Violence and Creativity in the Late Twentieth Century: Rabindranath Tagore and the Problem of Testimony / Ashis Nandy 264.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0838639801

OCLC:

50755104