Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject Literature - Modern Literature, grade: hundred per cent (10 out of 10), Jadavpur University, course: "utopian literature," optional course, MA English, Second Year, Fourth Semester, conducted by Rimi B. Chatterjee, language: English, abstract: Time has been conceptualized in various ways by the scientists, litterateurs and philosophers. But here, drawing on a 'utopian' narrative by a Russian author, Mukhopadhyay envisages an empathetic temporality that can create a mysterious compatibility between human time and natural time by ushering in a new...

Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 80%, Jadavpur University, course: MA (Postgraduate) in English- Second Year, Fourth Semester, Core Course on Postcolonial Literature, language: English, abstract: This essay explores the ways in which -nudity- operated as a space for ideological contestation in the nationalist and anti-colonial discourses of Bengal in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and also exhibits how the legacy of this contestation over the topos of nudity continues into the postcolonial Bengali...