An Acre of Green Grass and Other English Writings of Buddhadeva Bose
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9780199483600
Publication date:
25/06/2018
Hardback
364 pages
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ISBN:
9780199483600
Publication date:
25/06/2018
Hardback
364 pages
Edited by Rosinka Chaudhuri
This volume brings together, for the first time, a selection of English writings of Buddhadeva Bose. Bose’s subjects range from world literature, Bengali writers, and Tagore, to Bengali gastronomy, Picasso, and the films of Charlie Chaplin. These wide-ranging and diverse essays are not only a delight to read, they are also some of the best literary criticisms written by an Indian critic since Independence.
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Edited by Rosinka Chaudhuri
Description
One of the greatest and most versatile writers in the Bengali literary sphere succeeding Tagore, Buddhadeva Bose (1908–1974) was a poet, playwright, novelist, short story writer, literary critic, and essayist of great distinction. He received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1967 and was felicitated with the Padma Bhushan in 1970. Few realize that Bose was also one of the best writers of English prose in modern Indian writing in English.
This volume brings together, for the first time, a selection of his writings in the English language. Bose’s subjects range from world literature, Bengali writers, and Tagore, to Bengali gastronomy, Picasso, and the films of Charlie Chaplin. These wide-ranging and diverse essays are not only a delight to read, they are also some of the best literary criticisms written by an Indian critic since Independence.
About the Editor
Rosinka Chaudhuri is director and professor of cultural studies at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC), India. She has also been awarded the inaugural Chair as Mellon Professor of the Global South at the University of Oxford, UK in 2017–18.
Edited by Rosinka Chaudhuri
Table of contents
Starting from Scratch: A Foreword by Amit Chaudhuri
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Books
- An Acre of Green Grass: A Review of Modern Bengali Literature
- Tagore: Portrait of a Poet
Essays
- English Literature in India
- Comparative Literature in India
- Nature in Poetry: Modern Trends
- Modernism in Literature
- Tagore in Translation
- Bengali Gastronomy
- The Last Days of Rabindranath: Record of a Visit to Santiniketan
- The Genius of Chaplin
- ‘In the Mouth of Fame’: Ezra Pound: A Page from Current History
- To Remember Is to Live Again
- Picasso: Man with a Thousand Eyes
- Twins in Suffering: Dostoyevsky and Baudelaire
Book Reviews
- The Hindu World Exposed—and an Author Too
- Boris Pasternak: Book Review
About the Editor
Edited by Rosinka Chaudhuri
Features
- Buddhadeva Bose (1908-1974) was one of the most important literary personalities of twentieth century Bengali Literature
- He received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1967 for his verse play 'Tapaswi-O-Tarangini', and Padma Bhushan in 1970
- This work brings together some of his best English pieces
Edited by Rosinka Chaudhuri
Description
One of the greatest and most versatile writers in the Bengali literary sphere succeeding Tagore, Buddhadeva Bose (1908–1974) was a poet, playwright, novelist, short story writer, literary critic, and essayist of great distinction. He received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1967 and was felicitated with the Padma Bhushan in 1970. Few realize that Bose was also one of the best writers of English prose in modern Indian writing in English.
This volume brings together, for the first time, a selection of his writings in the English language. Bose’s subjects range from world literature, Bengali writers, and Tagore, to Bengali gastronomy, Picasso, and the films of Charlie Chaplin. These wide-ranging and diverse essays are not only a delight to read, they are also some of the best literary criticisms written by an Indian critic since Independence.
About the Editor
Rosinka Chaudhuri is director and professor of cultural studies at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC), India. She has also been awarded the inaugural Chair as Mellon Professor of the Global South at the University of Oxford, UK in 2017–18.
Table of contents
Starting from Scratch: A Foreword by Amit Chaudhuri
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Books
- An Acre of Green Grass: A Review of Modern Bengali Literature
- Tagore: Portrait of a Poet
Essays
- English Literature in India
- Comparative Literature in India
- Nature in Poetry: Modern Trends
- Modernism in Literature
- Tagore in Translation
- Bengali Gastronomy
- The Last Days of Rabindranath: Record of a Visit to Santiniketan
- The Genius of Chaplin
- ‘In the Mouth of Fame’: Ezra Pound: A Page from Current History
- To Remember Is to Live Again
- Picasso: Man with a Thousand Eyes
- Twins in Suffering: Dostoyevsky and Baudelaire
Book Reviews
- The Hindu World Exposed—and an Author Too
- Boris Pasternak: Book Review
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