India has the longest engagement with Shakespeare of any non-Western country. In the eastern Indian region of Bengal, contact with Shakespeare began in the eighteenth century. His plays were read and acted in newly established English schools, and performed professionally in new English theatres. A paradigm shift came with the foundation of the Hin...
This paper proposes new nuances in the interpretation of Okakura Kakuzō’s work The Ideals of the East (1903) using Bengali theoretical sources linked to artistic pedagogy. The interaction of Okakura Kakuzō with the cultural elites of Calcutta led to the writing of that book, but also to the implementation of a cultural twinning relevant to the stud...
Our essay is a thematic exploration of the malleability of idioms, imageries, and affectivities of Hindu bhakti across the borderlines of certain Indic worldviews. We highlight the theological motif of the feminine-feminised quest of the seeker (virahiṇī) for her divine beloved in some Hindu expressions shaped by the paradigmatic scriptural text Bh...
In the wake of the First World War, reformers across the Western world questioned laissez-faire liberalism, the self-oriented and market-driven ruling doctrine of the nineteenth century. This philosophy was blamed, variously, for the war, for industrialisation and for urbanisation; for a way of life shorn of any meaning beyond getting and keeping; ...
Published in Frontiers of Narrative Studies
Authors may be understood as producing stories from their narrative idiolects. Narrative idiolects are sets of principles that enable the simulation of possible sequences of causally connected events. Such idiolects include prototypes that define classes of stories. These prototypes or proto-stories are complexes of cognitive and affective structur...
Published in Sophia
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Dans les années 1910-1930, l’Indien Rabindranath Tagore est le premier écrivain asiatique vivant à jouir d’une renommée littéraire mondiale au point d’obtenir le prix Nobel de littérature en 1913. La circulation de son œuvre en Europe opère en deux temps : de l’Inde à l’Angleterre puis de l’Angleterre aux autres pays ; du bengali à l’anglais puis...
This ‘Introduction’ to a special issue on Rabindranath Tagore affirms his position as an Indian Renaissance man and assesses his stature as a leading world writer, philosopher, educationist, environmentalist, rural reconstructionist, activist and pragmatist who embodies India's ‘modern consciousness’ (Nandy, 1994). Tagore's international impact was...
