Critical Discourse in Bangla

ISBN-13: 9781032124704 / Miękka / 2023 / 332 str.

Opis

This volume offers crucial insights into the making of Bengali or Bangla literature and its critical tradition across a century. It brings together English translation of 32 major writings dealing with literary criticism and theory, aesthetic and performative traditions and re-interpretations of primary concepts and categories in Bangla.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Bengal and the Bengali in Charyageeti  2. The Emergence of the Baul Sect and the Period of Composition of Baul Songs  3. The Termination of Sri Gauranga’s Leela  4. The Gaudiya Vaishnav Order: Its Treatises on Rhetoric and Rasa  5. The Early Poets  6. A Message to the New Writers of Bengal.  Sakuntala, Miranda and Desdemona   7. Preface to Sabuj Patra  8. The Bengali Youth and Three Poets  9. The Sign of the Epic  10. Tragedy in Bangla Literature  11. A Consideration of Literature  12. Rasa and The Question of Taste  13. The Poetic Mind   14. Three Essays from Literature  15. The Search for World Language and World Literature in Poetry  16. Rabindranath and his Successors  17. The Liberation of Poetry  18. On Poetry  19. Progressiveness in Bangla Literature  20. Bangla Literature and Muslims  21. Why I Write  22. My Thoughts on Literature  23. I/ My Writing  24. In Search of a New Form of the Novel   25. Form in Theatre  26. Theatre Moments and the Search for Language  27. The Language of Theatre  28. The Alkap Theatre Tradition and Third Theatre  29. State Language and Language Issues in Bangladesh

O autorze

Subha Chakraborty Dasgupta is former Professor of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. She was Visiting Professor, University of Delhi, India, and Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan. Her research interests and publications span the fields of cultural studies, gender perspectives, oratures, and translation. She has a book entitled Bibliography of Reception: World Literature in Bengali Periodicals (1890-1900) to her credit, and her most recent volume co-edited with K. Alfons Knauth is Figures of Transcontinental Multilingualism (2018).

Subrata Sinha is Assistant Professor of Bangla at St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata (Raghabpur Campus), India. Earlier, he worked for the School of Cultural Texts and Records, Jadavpur University, and the Archives and Research Centre for Ethnomusicology, Gurgaon, India. His monograph Adhunikatar Kavyatattva o Sudhindranath Datta was published in 2019.