Rabindranath Tagore: Universality and Tradition - Hardcover

Patrick Colm Hogan; Lalita Pandit

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0838639801 ISBN 13: 9780838639801

Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,U.S., 2003

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Patrick Colm Hogan is a Professor in the Department of English at the University of Connecticut. He is also on the faculty of the Cognitive Science Program, the Program in Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies and the India Studies Program. He is the author of thirteen books, including The Mind and its Stories: Narrative Universals and Human Emotion (Cambridge University Press, 2003), hailed by Steven Pinker of Harvard University as 'a landmark in modern intellectual life', and the editor or co-editor of four books, including The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences.

About this edition

• Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,U.S.
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0838639801
• ISBN 13: 9780838639801
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 297
• Editor: Patrick Colm Hogan, Lalita Pandit