The Origins of Dislike
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ISBN:
9780198834649
Publication date:
27/09/2018
Hardback
352 pages
Price: 495.00 INR
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ISBN:
9780198834649
Publication date:
27/09/2018
Hardback
352 pages
Amit Chaudhuri
Rights: OUP UK (Indian Territory)
Amit Chaudhuri
Description
Strategic thinking for a writer articulates itself as dislike and as allegiance.' In this onderfully rich and diverse collection of essays, Amit Chaudhuri explores the way in which writers understand and promote their own work in antithesis to writers and movements that have gone before. Chaudhuri's criticism disproves and questions several assumptions—that a serious and original artist cannot think critically in a way that matters; that criticism can't be imaginative, and creative work contain radical argumentation; that a writer reflecting on their own position and practice cannot be more than a testimony of their work, but open up how we think of literary history and reading.
Illuminating new ways of thinking about Western and non-Western traditions, prejudices, and preconceptions, Chaudhuri shows us again that he takes nothing as a given: literary tradition, the prevalent definitions of writing and culture; and the way the market determines the way culture and language express themselves. He asks us to look again at what we mean by the modern, and how it might be possible to think of the literary today.
Amit Chaudhuri
Table of contents
Cover
The Origins of Dislike
Amit Chaudhuri
Table of Contents
Introduction
The Origins of Dislike
The Piazza and the Car Park
Poetry as Polemic
Deprofessionalisation and Legitimacy
The Other Green
On the Gita: Krishna as Poetic Language
The Alien Face of Cosmopolitanism: An Indian Reading of Cynthia Ozick on the Woolfs
Qatrina and the Books: Nadeem Aslam and others
Ray and Ghatak and Other Filmmaking Pairs: The structure of Asian modernity
The Photographer as Onlooker
The Sideways Movement
Unconstitutional Spaces
Un-machinelike
Nissim Ezekiel: Poet of a Minor Literature
The Emergence of the Everyday: Kipling, Tagore and Indian Regional Writing
Possible, not Alternative, Histories
Starting From Scratch: Buddhadeva Bose and the English Language
On the Paragraph
'I am Ramu'
Amit Chaudhuri
Features
- A fascinating and thought-provoking selection of essays from an award-winning novelist, poet, literary critic, and musician
- Explores critical 'dislike' as a form of intense engagement
- Features unpublished lectures delivered at some of the world's major universities
- Includes chapters on Western art, Asian cinema, Indian regional writing, Asian poetry, the Bhagavad Gita, Rabindranath Tagore, and Rudyard Kipling
- Reveals how re-thinking modernity can help us understand both creative practice and literary history
- Questions the dividing line between creativity and thought
Amit Chaudhuri
Review
"These essays testify to a formidable intelligence at work. Chaudhuri's engaging yet exacting reflections range widely across literature and the arts. Puncturing intellectual pieties and lazy thinking, they challenge us to rethink how art and the world connect."
- Rita Felski, William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of English, University of Virginia
Description
Strategic thinking for a writer articulates itself as dislike and as allegiance.' In this onderfully rich and diverse collection of essays, Amit Chaudhuri explores the way in which writers understand and promote their own work in antithesis to writers and movements that have gone before. Chaudhuri's criticism disproves and questions several assumptions—that a serious and original artist cannot think critically in a way that matters; that criticism can't be imaginative, and creative work contain radical argumentation; that a writer reflecting on their own position and practice cannot be more than a testimony of their work, but open up how we think of literary history and reading.
Illuminating new ways of thinking about Western and non-Western traditions, prejudices, and preconceptions, Chaudhuri shows us again that he takes nothing as a given: literary tradition, the prevalent definitions of writing and culture; and the way the market determines the way culture and language express themselves. He asks us to look again at what we mean by the modern, and how it might be possible to think of the literary today.
Reviews
"These essays testify to a formidable intelligence at work. Chaudhuri's engaging yet exacting reflections range widely across literature and the arts. Puncturing intellectual pieties and lazy thinking, they challenge us to rethink how art and the world connect."
- Rita Felski, William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of English, University of Virginia
Table of contents
Cover
The Origins of Dislike
Amit Chaudhuri
Table of Contents
Introduction
The Origins of Dislike
The Piazza and the Car Park
Poetry as Polemic
Deprofessionalisation and Legitimacy
The Other Green
On the Gita: Krishna as Poetic Language
The Alien Face of Cosmopolitanism: An Indian Reading of Cynthia Ozick on the Woolfs
Qatrina and the Books: Nadeem Aslam and others
Ray and Ghatak and Other Filmmaking Pairs: The structure of Asian modernity
The Photographer as Onlooker
The Sideways Movement
Unconstitutional Spaces
Un-machinelike
Nissim Ezekiel: Poet of a Minor Literature
The Emergence of the Everyday: Kipling, Tagore and Indian Regional Writing
Possible, not Alternative, Histories
Starting From Scratch: Buddhadeva Bose and the English Language
On the Paragraph
'I am Ramu'
