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This book presents original letters exchanged between Rabindranath Tagore and James Henry Cousins, and explores their shared ideas of culture, art, aesthetics, literature, education; aspects of nationalism and orientalism; theosophy, knowledge and spiritualism; cross-cultural dialogue; and anti-imperialism and internationalism.
A propos de l'auteur
Sirshendu Majumdar is Associate Professor of English, Bolpur College, West Bengal, India. He is the author of Yeats and Tagore: A Comparative Study of Cross-Cultural Poetry, Nationalist Politics, Hyphenated Margins and the Ascendancy of the Mind (2013) and co-editor of Rabindranath Tagore: Humanity and Cultural Affinity (2016). His areas of interest are Irish studies, WB Yeats, Rabindranath Tagore, modern European literature, nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Bengal, print culture and translation. He was a Trinity Long Room Hub Visiting Fellow at Trinity College Dublin, 2018–2019.
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This book presents original letters exchanged between Rabindranath Tagore and James Henry Cousins, and explores their shared ideas of culture, art, aesthetics, literature, education; aspects of nationalism and orientalism; theosophy, knowledge and spiritualism; cross-cultural dialogue; and anti-imperialism and internationalism.
