Author: Abhai Maurya
Publisher: Indian Council for Cultural Relations
Year: 1990
Language: English
Pages: 702
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8185434077
Description
This volume incorporates most of the papers presented for discussion at the International Symposium on 'India and World Literature attended by 300 eminent scholars, Indologists and lovers of Oriental thought and culture from different parts of the world.
While translating Kalidas's Shakuntala into Russian in 1792, the eminent Russian historian and writer Nikolai Karamzin wrote a foreword in which he among other things said: The creative spirit does not reside in Europe only. It is a citizen of the Universe. Man is everywhere a man, everywhere he has a sensitive heart and in the mirror of his imagination he holds both Heaven and Earth. These words embodied the quintessence and leitmotif towards organizing the International Symposium on 'India and World Literature'.
The concept of 'World Literature' has been exercising the minds of literary theoreticians and historians for about two centuries or more. There are various viewpoints, but by and large, World literature is a totality of such creative works which are either inter-connected or are analogous in all or some literatures.
Papers presented at this symposium have been classified under 13 chapters which are:
1 Keynote Addresses
2 Theories, Concepts, Approaches
3 India and World Literature - Epics
4. India and World Literature - Asia (Arabic and Persian)
5 India and World Literature - Asia (Chinese, Japanese and Indonesian)
6 India and World Literature - Europe (French, Spanish, Italian and Latin American)
7 India and World Literature - Europe (German)
8 India and World Literature - Europe (Russian and Soviet)
9 India and World Literature (Bulgarian, Czech, Slovak, Polish, Yugoslavian and Hungarian)
10 India and English Literature
11 Rabindernath Tagore and World Literature
12 E M Forster and India
13 Cross-Currents
Contents
Keynote Addresses
Theories, Concepts, Approaches
India and World Literature –EPICS
India and World Literature – ASIA(Arabic and Persian)
India and World Literature- ASIA (Chiness, Japanese and Indonesian)
Indian and World Literature – Europe (French, Spanish, Italian and Latin American)
India and World Literature – Europe(German)
India and World Literature –Europe (Russian and Soviet)
India and World Literature – Europe (Bulgarian, Czech, Slovak, Polish, Yugoslavian and Hungarian)
India and English Literature
Rabindranath Tagore and World Literature
E M Forster and India
Cross-Currents