The Oxford India anthology of bengali literature Vol. 1 1861-1941

Covering 80 years, from 1861 to 1941, this volume includes writings of some of the most representative figures in Bengali literature. Divided into three broad sections-poetry, short fiction, and prose non-fiction-the selections covera wide range of genres including poetry, short story, novel, memoir, and essay. INDICE: POETRY: Michael Madhusudan Datta, 'Bangabhasha'; 'The Slaying of Meghanada'; Rabindranath Tagore/Thakur, 'An Ordinary Person'; 'Big Sister'; 'The Mediatrix'; 'A Stressful Time'; 'The Old House'; 'One Day'; 'The Apprehension'; 'The Skeleton'; 'Impossible'; 'Palm-tree'; 'Flute-music'; 'From Lekhan'; 'From Sphulinga'; 'This Side and That'; Priyambada Devi, 'The Unsatisfied Longing'; 'Dedication'; 'An Enigma'; 'Ungrateful'; 'The Endless'; 'Surrender'; 'Dream-foundling'; 'In the Rain'; 'After the Storm'; 'The Dream Journey'; 'Irrevocable'; 'Untitled'; 'A Query'; 'Reveillez '; 'Awakening'; Sukumar Ray, 'Odour in the Court'; 'Baburam the Snakecharmer'; 'The Old Woodman'; 'Shadow Play';'Spook Sports'; Jibanananda Das, 'Tangerine'; 'If I Were'; 'Grass'; 'Windy Night'; 'A Day Eight Years Ago'; Kazi Nazrul Islam, 'Song of Destruction: Those Iron Gates of Prison'; 'In the Restless Wheels of Change'; 'The Ecstasy of Creation'; 'Victoress'; 'Ink on My Face, Ink on My Hands'; Sudhindranath Datta, 'A Farewell'; 'Conflict'; 'Camel-Bird'; 'The Fool'; 'The End'; Jasim Uddin, 'First Love'; 'Come to the Garden by Night'; Buddhadeva Bose, 'Love and Life'; 'This is All'; 'There isn't Time'; 'Rain and Storm'; 'New Leaves'; 'Hilsa'; Bishnu Dey, 'Fear No More the Darkness'; 'Love is the Nest in the Sky'; 'Summer inCalcutta'; 'Sonnet'; 'Quicksand'; 'A Kafi'; Samar Sen, 'Aftermath'; 'Land of the Mohuas'; 'The March of Time'; 'History'; 'Wherever You Go'; 'A Girl'; '1900'; SHORT FICTION: Bankimchandra Chatterjee, 'Life Story of Muchiram Gurh'; Rabindranath Tagore, 'A Single Night'; Sharatkumari Chaudhurani, 'Loved or Unloved?'; Upendrakishore Roychaudhuri, 'The Wicked Tiger'; Pramatha Chaudhuri, 'Tales of Four Friends'; Abanindranath Thakur, 'Caramel Doll'; Prabhatkumar Mukhopadhyay, 'The Goddess'; Sharatchandra Chatterjee, 'Mahesh'; Parashurama (Rajshekhar Bose), 'On Bhushandi's Plain'; Jagadish Gupta, 'At the Day's End'; Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay, 'Bama'; Jyotirmoyee Devi (Sen), 'Market Values'; Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay, 'The Gypsy Woman'; Jibanananda Das, 'Together, Alone'; Manik Bandyopadhyay, 'Primeval'; PROSE NON-FICTION: Rashsundari Devi, 'My Life'; Debendranath Thakur, 'Autobiography'; Bhudeb Mukhopadhyay, 'Sense of National Identity and Western Influence'; Bankimchandra Chatterjee, 'A Bengalee's Humanity'; Kaliprasanna Sinha, 'The Observant Owl'; Shibnath Shastri (Sivanath Sastri), 'A History of the Renaissance in Bengal'; Ramtanu Lahiri, 'A Reformer'; Jagadish Chandra Bose, 'The Literary in the Scientific'; Rabindranath Tagore, 'Gora: Sense of National Identity'; 'Jibansmriti' (Remembering Life); 'Japan-jatree' (Traveller to Japan); 'Atmaparichoy' (About Myself); 'Chhelebela' (Boyhood Days); 'Gitacharchaa' (Cultivating Music); 'Narrative Personal Letter'; 'Letters from Russia'; 'Crisis in Civilization'; Pramatha Chaudhuri, 'The Story of Bengalee Literature'; Binodini Dasi, 'Memoirs of (Actress) Binodini'; Indira Devi Chaudhurani, 'Relationships'

• ISBN: 978-0-19-806462-6
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 436
• Fecha Publicación: 18/02/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés