The Poet and His World : Critical Essays on Rabindranath Tagore

Contents 1 Rabindranath Tagore and Hermann Keyserling A Difficult FriendshipMartin Kampchen 2 Rabindranath Tagore The Poet and the PeopleSukanta Chaudhuri 3 A Herald of Religious Unity Rabindranath Tagore?s Literary Representation of MuslimsMohammad A Quayum 4 Never Not an Educator Rabindranath Tagore as a Poet-TeacherWilliam Radice 5 Tagore and Education Creativity Mutuality and SurvivalKathleen M O?Connell 6 Rabindranath Tagore?s Visva-Bharati University and Its Ideal of International Cooperation A Case Study of China and India 1921?1941Uma Das Gupta 7 Empire and Nation Rabindranath Tagore?s Political Ideology in His Travel WritingsMohammad A Quayum 8 Rabindranath Tagore?s Nationalist Thought A RetrospectNarasingha P Sil9 The Author as Actor Rabindranath Tagore as a Performer in His PlaysAbhijit Sen 10 A Blueprint for Reinventing Tagorean PerformanceAnanda Lal 11 At the Margins of Family Life Abjection and Purification in Rabindranath Tagore?s BinodiniLalita Pandit Hogan 12 Rabindranath Tagore?s Political Imagination in The Home and the World A Textual and Contextual ReadingMohammad A Quayum 13 ?New Woman? in Rabindranath Tagore?s Short Stories An Interrogation of ?The Laboratory?Bharati Ray Glossary Bibliography Notes on the Contributors Index Seventy years after his death Tagores genius still provides ample scope for critical analyses of his writings especially in the English language and outside the subcontinentA collection of thirteen essays The Poet and His World Critical Essays on Rabindranath Tagore enhances critical literature on Tagore Looking at different aspects of Tagores life and philosophy the chapters in this volume are sequenced from the more general to the specific They analyse the poet?s life and relationships his moral educational political and dramaturgical philosophy and finally provide textual analysis of select individual works like the novels Gora and The Home and the World and a short story The LaboratoryEminent scholars like Sukanta Chaudhuri Martin Kämpchen William Radice Bharati Ray Kathleen M O?Connell Uma Das Gupta to name a few have contributed to this volume Brought out on the 150th birth anniversary of the poet this book will be an unputdownable read for students and scholars of literature and culture studies 316 pp.…