The Hill Of Devi And Other Indian Writings
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The Hill of Devi
Author | : E. M. Forster |
Publisher | : Rosetta Books |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 2015-09-02 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 079534659X |
An essential companion to A Passage to India, a collection of the author’s own letters that read like “a close personal friend has shared his impressions” (Kirkus Reviews). In 1912, a young E. M. Forster traveled to India to serve as a secretary to the Maharajah of Dewas, a small Indian state. He was elevated to the rank of a minor noble, and eventually given the state’s highest honor, the Tukoji Rao III gold medal. This brief episode in Forster’s life became the basis for his masterwork, A Passage to India. In the letters included in The Hill of Devi, he shares his personal journey of discovering his beloved India for the first time. Forster paints a vivid, intimate picture of Dewas State—a strange, bewildering, and enchanting slice of pre-independence India. In this collection, Forster shares insight into the lives of Indian royalty and accounts of the stark contrast between their excesses and the poverty he encounters. From letters that set the scene for Forster’s lifelong friendship with the Maharaja, to an essay on the Maharaja himself and Forster’s experiences as the Maharaja’s personal secretary, The Hill of Devi is a fascinating chronicle of the author’s experience in the land he called “the oddest corner of the world outside Alice in Wonderland.”
A Spiritual Bloomsbury
Author | : Antony Copley |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 409 |
Release | : 2006-08-04 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0739161229 |
A Spiritual Bloomsbury is an exploration of how three English writers—Edward Carpenter, E.M. Forster, and Christopher Isherwood—sought to come to terms with their homosexuality by engagement with Hinduism. Copley reveals how these writers came to terms with their inner conflicts and were led in the direction of Hinduism by friendship or the influence of gurus. Tackling the themes of the guru-disciple relationship, their quarrel with Christianity, relationships with their mothers and the problematic feminine, the tensions between sexuality and society, and the attraction of Hindu mysticism; this fascinating work seeks to reveal whether Hinduism offered the answers and fulfillment these writers ultimately sought. Also included is a diary narrating Copley's quest to track down Carpenter's and Isherwood's Vendantism and Forster's Krishna cult on a journey to India.
The Creator as Critic and Other Writings by E.M. Forster
Author | : Edward Morgan Forster |
Publisher | : Dundurn |
Total Pages | : 821 |
Release | : 2008-02-25 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1550025228 |
These essays, lectures, memoirs, and broadcasts are the thought-provoking products of Forsters engagement with the literary, political, and social events of his time.
The Bloomsbury Group
Author | : Stanford Patrick Rosenbaum |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 531 |
Release | : 1995-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0802076408 |
Additions to the revised edition include an early anonymous newspaper account of Bloomsbury, and observations by Quentin Bell, Beatrice Webb, Gerald Brenan, Christopher Isherwood, Frances Partridge, and others.
E.M. Forster's Modernism
Author | : David Medalie |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 2016-07-18 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0230504280 |
This volume is a comprehensive investigation into Forster's relationship to Modernism. It advances the argument that Forster's fiction embodies an important strand within modernism and in doing so makes the case for a new definition and interpretation of "modernism".
Rethinking Postcolonialism
Author | : A. Acheraïou |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2015-12-04 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0230583571 |
Acheraiou challenges postcolonial discourse analysis and proposes a new model of interpretation that resituates the historical, ideological and conceptual denseness of the Colonial idea. He questions key issues, including hybridity, Otherness and territoriality, and expands the postcolonial field by introducing ground-breaking theoretical concepts.