Selected writings on literature and language

Part of 'The Oxford Tagore Translations' series, a prestigious project undertaken by Oxford University Press in collaboration with Visva-Bharati, this volume includes essays which reveal Rabindranath Tagore's engagement with the central issues of criticism, as well as with literary theory and aesthetics. INDICE: General Editor's Preface; A Note on the Contributors; A Note onthe Style of Dates and the Text; Some Basic Terms and Concepts, and their Renderings; Introduction by Sisir Kumar Das; Silent Poet, Untaught Poet ; 'De Profundis' ; On Changes in the State of Poetry ; Baul Songs ; Literature (1889), From The Five Elements-A First Acquaintance. Prose and Verse. The Significanceof a Poem. Lucidity. Mirth. The Measure of Mirth. A Novel Ramayana; The Theatre ; Children's Rhymes ; Rural Literature ; World Literature ; Literary Creation ; The Sense of Beauty ; Bengali National Literature ; The Historical Novel ; A Poet's Biography ; Vidyapati's Radhika ; The Nature of Krishna ; The Meghadutam ; Kumarasambhavam and Shakuntala ; Shakuntala o The Ramayana ; Literature (1924) ; Creation ; The Poet's Defence ; Modern Poetry ; The Philosophy of Literature ; Presidential Address ; The Poet Yeats ; The True Nature of Literature ; The Prose Poem ; Introduction to the Bengali Language ; About Language ;The Bengali of Maktabs and Madrasas ; Notes

• ISBN: 978-0-19-806968-3
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 432
• Fecha Publicación: 07/10/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés