Author: R K Das Gupta
G R Taneja/Vinod Sena
Editor(s): G R Taneja / Vinod Sena
Publisher: Allied Publishers
Year: 1995
Language: English
Pages: 280
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8170234417
Description
Literature East and West: Essays Presented to R K DasGupta brings together scholars from many countries representing many disciplines such as English and comparative literature, literary theory, philosophy, linguistic, history and archaeology. The result is a collection of essays which provides insights into subjects ranging from an interpretation of Homer’s Ode on Man to Shakespeare, Milton, Blake, Roethke and T S Eliot; Michael Madhusudan Dutta, Tagore, and nineteenth century Bengali Renaissance; Anglo-Indian fiction; drama and narrative, poetry and the academy, and in search of a valid response to literature. In their diversity of themes and outlook, they suggest something of the richness of contemporary literary studies as also the range of intellectual engagements of Professor R K DasGupta-the scholar they seek to honour.
Professor R K DasGupta was Tagore Professor of Bengali at the University of Delhi (1962-77), distinguished visiting Professor of comparative Literature at the University of Alberta (1971-1973), and Visiting Professor of English at the University of South Louisiana (1985). He retired as the first Director of the National Library (1977-1980) and now lives in Calcutta.
Contents
FOREWORD
W G Barr
PREFACE
G R Taneja
And echoing walks between
The Poet and the Academy
In Search of a Valid Response to Literature
Of Philosophers, Literary Men, and Uncommon readers
Literary History, Literary Theory and Comparative Literature
The Human Norm in Paradise Lost: Thus measuring things in Heav’n by things on Earth
The Success-and Failure-of T S Eliot’s Modern Plays
A New Reading of The Marriage of Heaven & Hell
The Epic of the Eyes-Theodore Roethke’s Poetic vision
The New Machiavelli: Shakespeare in the Henriad
Order and Progress: The Reception of Comteian Positivism in Nineteenth-Century Bengal
Nationalism, Internationalism and Imperialism: Tagore on England and the west
Milton and Madhusudan
Facets of Post-Modernism: the Indian Literary Scene
The Throne: was Duryodhana Wrong?
A New Source of the history of the Bengali script and Language
Guru-land and Disciple: An Aspect of Anglo-Indian fiction
Narrative in the Drama
Once Again on the Ode on Man
APPENDICES
Professor R K DasGupta
A Tribute
CONTRIBUTORS