Kaviraj The Imaginary Institution of India

Politics and Ideas
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-231-52651-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 312 Seiten, Format (B × H): 127 mm x 203 mm

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Kaviraj, Sudipta

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Literature as the Mirror of Modernity
1. On the Advantages of Being a Barbarian
2. Literature and the Moral Imaginations of Modernity
3. The Two Histories of Literary Culture in Bengal
4. A Strange Love of Abstractions: The Making of a Language of Patriotism in Modern Bengali
5. Tagore and Transformations in the Ideals of Love
6. The Poetry of Interiority: The Creation of a Language of Modern Subjectivity in Tagore's Poetry
7. Laughter and Subjectivity: The Self-Ironical Tradition in Bengali Literature
8. Reading a Song of the City: Images of the City in Literature and Films
9. The Art of Despair: The Sense of the City in Modern Bengali Poetry
10. The Invention of Private Life: A Reading of Sibnath Sastri's Autobiography
11. The Second Mahabharata
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Sudipta Kaviraj is professor of Indian politics and intellectual history at Columbia University. He has taught at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and was an Agatha Harrison Fellow at St. Antony's College, Oxford.