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Rabindranath Tagore and England
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Rabindranath Tagore and the Subject of Political Freedom
My dissertation reconstructs Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), modern India's foremost poet-philosopher and the first non-European recipient of the Nobel Prize, as a political thinker. Shirking simple binaries such as East and West, empire and nation, or poetry and politics, the objective is to …
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Three Plays by Rabindranath Tagore: Translated, and With an Introduction (Drama, Bengali, India)
… provides a general introduction to the plays of Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), the Indian author who became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, in 1913. The preliminary section delineates the main reasons behind the neglect and misunderstanding that have characterized …
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Gitanjali : a study of the song cycle by Rabindranath Tagore and John Alden Carpenter
Digitized by Kansas Correctional Industries
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Gitanjali : a study of the song cycle by Rabindranath Tagore and John Alden Carpenter
Digitized by Kansas Correctional Industries
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Becoming Words of Witness: The Motif of Call and Response in Muhammad Iqbal and Rabindranath Tagore
… the works of Muhammad Iqbal (1877–1938) and Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941). By taking this call-response structure as my overarching hermeneutic, I seek to demonstrate how Iqbal and Tagore envision human becoming as a fundamentally artistic exercise which is dynamically interwoven with the …
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The Hindu concept of pure consciousness in the poetry of pure consciousness in the poetry of Juan Ramón Jiménez, Rabindranath Tagore, and W. B. Yeats: a comparative study
… in the poetry of Juan Ramón Jiménez, Rabindranath Tagore, and W. B. Yeats. The main emphasis of the study is on affinities and influences—a product of shared values, contacts and cross-fertilizations. The poetry of these three artists strongly parallels the psychology and philosophy of …
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Patchwork jacket and loincloth: An ethnographic study of the Bauls of Bengal
… practices are expressed in their songs. Since Rabindranath Tagore called the attention of the public to the richness of the Baul songs and their religion, a number of people have collected Baul songs, and studied and written about the Bauls. However, they have primarily dealt with Baul songs, …
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When the Poet Is a Stranger: Poetry and Agency in Tagore, Walcott, and Darwish
… through poetry. The poets examined here, Rabindranath Tagore, Derek Walcott, and Mahmoud Darwish--arguably among the best-known poets of the modern world--sought to be heard by various sensibilities and succeeded in reaching them. Outside the fold of the Western Metropolitan world, they as …
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Overlapping Terrains: Orientalism, Indian Nationalism and the Erotics of Cross -Cultural Contact
… E. M. Forster, Mircea Eliade, Maitreyi Devi and Rabindranath Tagore, which provide a romance setting for themes of East/West encounter. The necessity of addressing or accommodating the ""other"" in these texts creates the conditions for a certain collaborative or collusive intimacy. Yet this …
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Montage and ethnicity : experimental film practice and editing in the documentation of the Gujarati Indian community in Wales
… and nation - derived from the thought of Rabindranath Tagore. The implication of this is that ethnicity gets reflected as a site of multiple and competing historico-cultural and social inscriptions. This complicates the binarisms of power accompanying historical movements such as …
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William Butler Yeats' transformations of eastern religious concepts
… 6 contrasts Yeats' poetry with that of Rabindranath Tagore. Yeats failed to realize Tagore's motivation when Tagore referred to God. Yeats claimed that all reference to Cod was vague and that he disliked Tagore's mysticism. This lack of understanding on Yeats' part, I suggest, further …
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China's Forgotten Revolution: Radical Conservatism in Action, 1927-1949
… proved attractive to Pan-Asianists like Rabindranath Tagore and informed exchanges between the Guomindang and Indian National Congress at the height of the Second World War. In highlighting the ascendency of radical conservatism in China and its transnational circulation across Asia, this …
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Education for togetherness and harmony; Learning and teaching through lived experiences
… Mahatma Gandhi, the Dalai Lama, Aurobindo Ghose, Rabindranath Tagore and Jiddu Krishnamurthi, have foregrounded “education of the heart”, “education of the spirit” and “education for inner flowering” as fundamental goals of education. They founded and inspired schools that target education for …
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La recuperación de William Henry Hudson a través de las adaptaciones de Mansiones verdes y Allá lejos y hace tiempo
… Ford o Virginia Woolf–, y llegó a conmover a Rabindranath Tagore, a través del cual su figura y su obra empezaron a ser conocidas entre los argentinos. Sin embargo, las adaptaciones y recuperaciones de su obra apenas han tenido eco crítico, pasando mayormente desapercibidas. De este modo, los …
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Dartington Hall and social reform in interwar Britain
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 …
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Towards a Peripatetic Practice: negotiating journey through painting
Towards a peripatetic practice: negotiating journey through painting investigates painting as a way of comprehending lived experience of travel. The project develops from curiosity about journeys and their potential for bringing the artist into encounters with the world, and proximate to its issues …
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Towards a Peripatetic Practice: negotiating journey through painting
Towards a peripatetic practice: negotiating journey through painting investigates painting as a way of comprehending lived experience of travel. The project develops from curiosity about journeys and their potential for bringing the artist into encounters with the world, and proximate to its issues …