An Acre of Green Grass

English Writings of Buddhadeva Bose

Buch | Hardcover

384 Seiten

2018
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-948360-0 (ISBN)

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Buddhadeva Bose (1908-1974) is known to readers of Bengali as perhaps the greatest and most versatile talent in the Bengali literary sphere succeeding Tagore. Poet, playwright, novelist, short-story writer, literary critic, and essayist of great distinction, he is one of the most important literary personalities of twentieth century Bengali literature. Few realize that Buddhadeva Bose was also one of the best writers of English prose in modern Indian writing in English. An Acre of Green Grass brings together for the first time a selection of his best prose in the English language on subjects ranging 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 some of the best literary criticism written by an Indian critic in English since Independence and deserve a much wider audience than they have had so far.

Rosinka Chaudhuri completed her DPhil at Oxford University and is a professor in the cultural studies department at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. She has been visiting fellow at the Southern Asian Institute, Columbia University, and Charles Wallace Fellow at Cambridge University. She is the author of The Literary Thing (OUP 2014).

Acknowledgements
Preface: Starting from Scratch by Amit Chaudhuri
Introduction by Rosinka Chaudhuri

Books

An Acre of Green Grass: A Review of Modern Bengali Literature (1948)
Tagore: Portrait of a Poet (1962)

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: Dostoevsky and Baudelaire
Modern Bengali Literature: A Study in Indian-Western Relations

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Erscheinungsdatum	19.09.2018
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	151 x 224 mm
Gewicht	474 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Anthologien
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
ISBN-10	0-19-948360-4 / 0199483604
ISBN-13	978-0-19-948360-0 / 9780199483600
Zustand	Neuware