Imperfect Encounter

Imperfect Encounter
Author: William Rothenstein
Publisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 432
Release: 1972
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Rabindranath Tagore: An Anthology

Rabindranath Tagore: An Anthology
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 436
Release: 1999
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780312200794

Unlike previous Tagore collections that focus on a single genre, Dutta and Robinson's anthology offers a full range of Tagore's talents--a play, poems, songs, a novel, selections from his memoirs, travel writings, and essays--in one graceful volume.

Rabindranath Tagore and James Henry Cousins

Rabindranath Tagore and James Henry Cousins
Author: Sirshendu Majumdar
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 131
Release: 2021-09-21
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1000424804

This book presents a set of original letters exchanged between Rabindranath Tagore, the first Asian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the eminent Irish poet and theosophist, James Henry Cousins. Through these letters, the volume explores their shared ideas of culture, art, aesthetics, and education in India; aspects of Irish Orientalism; Irish literary revival; theosophy, eastern knowledge, and spiritualism; cross-cultural dialogue and friendship; Renaissance in India; anti-imperialism; nationalism; internationalism; and cosmopolitanism. The book reveals a hitherto unexplored facet concerning two leading thinkers in the history of ideas in a transnational context. With its lucid style, extensive annotations and a comprehensive Introduction, this book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of Indian literature, Bengali literature, comparative literature, South Asian studies, Tagore studies, modern Indian history, philosophy, cultural studies, education, political studies, postcolonial studies, India studies, Irish history, and Irish literature. It will also interest general readers and the Bengali diaspora.

Rabindranath Tagore's Theatre

Rabindranath Tagore's Theatre
Author: Abhijit Sen
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2021-09-28
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1000433315

This book analyses Rabindranath Tagore’s contribution to Bengali drama and theatre. Throughout this book, Abhijit Sen locates and studies Rabindranath’s experiments with drama/theatre in the context of the theatre available in nineteenth-century Bengal, and explores the innovative strategies he adopted to promote his ‘brand’ of theatre. This approach finds validation in the fact that Rabindranath combined in himself the roles of author-actor-producer, who always felt that, without performance, his dramatic compositions fell short of the desired completeness. Various facets of his plays as theatre and his own role as a theatre-practitioner are the prime focus of this book. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in Theatre and Performance Studies and most notably, those focusing on Indian Theatre and Postcolonial Theatre.

Friendships of ‘Largeness and Freedom’

Friendships of ‘Largeness and Freedom’
Author: Uma Das Gupta
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 520
Release: 2018-01-04
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0199091692

Friendships of ‘Largeness and Freedom’ presents the story of three remarkable individuals—Rabindranath Tagore, Mahatma Gandhi, and the Anglican missionary Charles Freer Andrews. Brought together for the first time, the letters in this volume not only bear witness to their friendship but also reveal the universal principles they adopted to pursue freedom from colonial rule. Together, the three friends have given us an alternative legacy—the legacy of a nationalism that worked with complete restraint, that cried halt to the freedom movement whenever it turned violent, and that proclaimed the way forward to be in self-suffering and not in hatred of the enemy. They firmly believed that there must be no separation between the spiritual and the political, even in a political struggle. As Tagore wrote: ‘I know such spiritual faith may not lead us to political success, but I say to myself, as India has ever said: Tatah kim? Even then, what?’ Offering a glimpse into the recesses of their minds, their letters help us see what their lives were like beyond the myths and legends that often surround such iconic individuals.

Tagore and Yeats

Tagore and Yeats
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2022-04-25
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9004515151

This is a comparative exploration of two iconic Nobel Prize winning writers, W.B. Yeats and Rabindranath Tagore, focusing on the theme of postcolonial translation, politics of friendship, decolonializing art and Irish-Indian nationalism through poetry and literature.

Bokujinkai: Japanese Calligraphy and the Postwar Avant-Garde

Bokujinkai: Japanese Calligraphy and the Postwar Avant-Garde
Author: Eugenia Bogdanova-Kummer
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2020-07-20
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9004437061

Japanese calligraphy had its international heyday—collaborating with and yet challenging abstract painting—in the early postwar years. This book explores a Kyoto-based calligraphy group Bokujinkai, and its contribution to the Japanese, American, and European postwar avant-gardes.

Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 173
Release: 1989-06-18
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1349091332

Tagore, a Bengalese writer, artist and thinker won the 1913 Nobel Prize for Literature and became an international celebrity. These essays arose from an international Tagore Conference held in London in 1986 which aimed to reassess the range of his achievement and the catholicity of his thought.