01844nam a22002297a 4500 20140424104307.0 ENG-109236 995.00 9780198089667 995.00 019808966x EN-92769 DBAD/PUB 891.4409 Chaudhury, Rosinka The literary thing : by Rosinka Chaudhury history, poetry and the making of a modern culture sphere / Oxford University Press 2014 New Delhi New Delhi 110001 YMCA Library Building, 1 Jai Singh Road lxvi,332p. 22cm(Hb) Includes index Disjunctions, Conjunctions - Reading Iswarchandra Gupta (1812-1859) - Poet of the Present: The Material Object in the World of Iswar Gupta - 'Another Wonder of the Nineteenth Century': Rangalal Bandyopadhyay (1827-1887) - Event, Anecdote, Iconicity: The Legend of Michael Madhusudan Datta - Michael Madhusudan Datta and the Marxist Understanding of the 'Real Renaissance' in Bengal - Hemchandra's 'Bharat sangit' (1870) and the Politics of Poetry: A Pre-History of Hindu Nationalism in Bengal - Cutlets or Fish Curry?: Debating Indian Authenticity - History in Poetry: Nabinchandra Sen's Palasir yuddha (1875) and the Question of Truth - The Curious Case of Nabinchandra Sen and the Textbook Committee: An Investigation into Hindu/Muslim Representations - Rabindranath's Early Style and Reconstruction of the Past. Mapping a fifty-year period that is fundamental to any understanding of nineteenth-century Bengal - 1831 to 1881, this book focuses on literary debates generated around the works of Iswarchandra Gupta, Rangalal Bandyopadhyay, Madhusudan Datta, Hemchandra Bandyopadhyay, Nabinchandra Sen, and Rabindranath Tagore. ddc EN CHA 891.4409 82292 82292 0 0 0 1 NFIC DBAD DBAD 2014-01-31 DBAD/PUB 995.00 0 891.4409 CHA EN-92769 2014-01-31 00:00:00 1 995.00 EN