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Rabindranath Tagore in the 21st Century, 2015
Theoretical Renewals
Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures Series, Vol. 7
Coordinator: Banerji Debashish
Language: EnglishSubjects for Rabindranath Tagore in the 21st Century:
Keywords
Contemporary approaches to Tagore; Feminism and Tagore; Intersubjectivity in Tagore's art; Postmodern interpretation of Tagore; Queer theory and Tagore; Self and subjectivity in Tagore's portraits; Tagore and Bangladeshi identity; Tagore and Bengali identity; Tagore and aesthetics; Tagore and the Bauhaus; Tagore's educational reforms; Tagore's music; literary diction
Support: Print on demand
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Chapter 1. Introduction: Theory and the Performative Politics of Punctuation.- Chapter 2. The Rustle of Language.- Chapter 3. Translating Tagore: Shifting Paradigms.- Chapter 4. Two Giant Brothers.- Chapter 5. Tagore’s Idea of “World Literature”.- Chapter 6. Rethinking Cosmopolitan Modernity: Rabindranath Tagore on Nationalism and Internationalism.- Chapter 7. The Bauhaus, Rabindranath Tagore and his Paintings.- Chapter 8. Why Ratan fell in Love Unnoticed and Why Ashu was Ashamed: Tagore’s Short Fiction and the Ethics of Feeling.- Chapter 9. Remembering Robi: Childhood, Freedom and Rabindranath Tagore.- Chapter 10. The Educational Efforts of Rabindranath Tagore.- Chapter 11. The Delineation of the Female Subject in Rabindranath Tagore’s Novel Farewell, My Friend.- Chapter 12. Gender, Nation, and the Vicissitudes of Kalpana: Choreographing Womanly Beauty in Tagore’s Dance Dramas.- Chapter 13. Chitrangada and Contemporary Queer Appropriations of Tagore.- Chapter 14. Tagore and the North-East: Dialectics of Human Intellection and the Nature of Aesthetic Reflection.- Chapter 15. Rabindrasangeet and Modern Bengali Subjectivity.- Chapter 16. Tagore and National Identity Formation in Bangladesh.- Chapter 17. Tagore Through Portraits: An Intersubjective Picture Gallery.- Chapter 18. The Unanswered Question: Some Remarks on Tagore’s Late Style.