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Novelist Tagore : gender and modernity in selected texts / Radha Chakravarty.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Delhi : Routledge, 2013.Description: 160 p. ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780415840439 (hbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 823.9109 CHA 007596
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Contents:
1.Chokher Bali: The Novel of the New Age 2.Gora: Nationalism and the Quest for Identity 3.Quartet: Reason, Religion and Sexuality 4.The Home and the World: Gender and Nationalism 5.Yogayog: A World in Transition 6.Farewell Song: Romance and Realism 7.Four Chapters: The Language of Violence.
Summary: 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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 146-154) and index.

1.Chokher Bali: The Novel of the New Age
2.Gora: Nationalism and the Quest for Identity
3.Quartet: Reason, Religion and Sexuality
4.The Home and the World: Gender and Nationalism
5.Yogayog: A World in Transition
6.Farewell Song: Romance and Realism
7.Four Chapters: The Language of Violence.

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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