Novelist Tagore - Gender and Modernity in Selected Texts

Rabindranath Tagore is widely regarded as a poet-philosopher and educationist, but his novels remain a relatively underexplored aspect of his oeuvre. Focusing on gender and modernity as key features of his fiction, this book charts Tagore's evolution as a novelist from self-conscious psychologizing in Chokher Bali to an engagement with nationalism in Gora and Ghare Baire (The Home and the World); a portrayal of asceticism and desire in Chaturanga (Quartet); an analysis of marriage, sexuality and change in Bengali society in Yogayog (Relationships); an effervescent fusion of social satire and literary experimentation in Shesher Kabita (Farewell Song); and an intense, dramatic study of love, politics, and terrorism in Char Adhyay (Four Chapters).

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• Authors: Radha Chakravarty, Chakravarty Radha
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.06.2013
• EAN: 9780415840439
• ISBN: 978-0-415-84043-9
• No. of pages: 170
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, Philosophy, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist, Religion: general, Literature: history & criticism, Gender studies, gender groups, Literature: history and criticism, HISTORY / Asia / South / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General