Studies On Rabindranath Tagore ( Vol. 2 ) (Hardcover) | Released: 2004

The epithet, “myriad-minded” which Coleridge applied to Shakespeare seems to be more eminently applicable to Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) whose long life of eighty years was marked by ceaseless and torrential flow of creativity manifested in the richness and variety of all kinds of literary forms—dance, drama, music, painting and original organizational activities. Whatever he touched turned into gold. Touching the kindred points of heaven and earth he was both a man of action and of contemplation, a seer and also a pioneer in cooperative movement, a writer of most profound poems and an author of children’s text-books including books of science, a nationalist and internationalist, a man of royal grandeur like his grandfather, a prince, and an ascetic like his father, a maharshi. He was both a poet and a painter, a dramatist and an actor, a philosopher and a social reformer, an educationist and a humanist. In his philosophy of life the best of the East and that of the West are reconciled into a harmonious whole enriching the quality and substance of life which he always saw steady and saw it whole. His life was marked as much by Shakespearean fecundity as by protean plasticity. His inclusive mind aspired after the Universal Man shining in the glory of creation and joie de vivre. Tagore’s unfailing faith in man and divinity, his concern for women and solicitation for children, his sympathy for the poor and the downtrodden, his philosophical speculations and practical wisdom, his perception of the zeitgeist and the evolution of taste—all find expression in the all-encompassing sweep of his writings in a magnificent synthesis of philosophical profundity and aesthetic luxuriance. With the passage of time Tagore has only grown in stature and is now reckoned as an increasingly significant and complex personality. Whether seen as a great sentinel or a complete man, the finest exponent of the Bengal Renaissance or the harbinger of a new age, a majestic personality or a deeply scarred individual, it is rewarding to revisit Tagore—a miracle of literary history—in the light of modern criticism. The essays included in this Volume offer illuminating insights into various facets of Tagore’s literary works, mind and personality. It will be found enjoyable as well as useful by students, scholars and general readers.

Table of Contents:
1. Tagore’s Religion of Man: No Strait-jacket of Religious Philosophy –SUBHAS SARKAR 2. Influence of the Revolutionary Movement on Tagore’s Works –SOMNATH ROY 3. Tagore’s Gora: A Study in the Nationalist Perspective —KH. KUNJO SINGH 4. Tagore’s Ghare-Baire: The Conflict of Politics and Ethics —SANTISUDHA MUKHOPADHYAYA 5. The Home and the World as a Postcolonial Text —SUBIR DHAR 6. On the Tradition Trail: A Study of Bimala in The Home and the World —SANTOSH CHAKRABARTI 7. Tagore on Ghare Baire: Aesthetics in Command —MOHIT K. RAY 8. Tagore’s Experiments with the Genre of Dramatic Monologue —JAYANTA BHATTACHARYA 9. The Dramatic Dialectics of Rabindranath Tagore: A Structural Study —HARIOM PRASAD 10. Feminine Sway in Tagore’s Plays —GAURI SHANKAR JHA 11. Red Oleanders as a Satire —BASAVARAJ NAIKAR 12. The Ramayana, Raktakarabi and Surfacing: AnEco-Feminist Perspective —MOHIT K. RAY 13. Symbolism in Tagore’s Play The Post Office —U.S. RUKHAIYAR 14. Breaking Free: Is Rabindranath’s ©Streer Patraª A Feminist Text? —SANJUKTA DASGUPTA 15. Tagore’s Binodini: The White Lotus of Love —S.P. SWAIN 16. Tagore’s Short Stories: A Critical Study —HARIOM PRASAD 17. The Short Stories of Tagore: A Breath-taking Panorama of Human Existence —SUBIR DHAR 18. Life, Mind and Art of Tulasi and Tagore: A Comparative Perspective —HARIOM PRASAD 19. An Overview of Tagore’s Translations —Sibabrata ChattopadhyayContributors