A talent for the particular : critical essays on R.K. Narayan / (Record no. 5505)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9788192065168 |
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| International Standard Book Number | 8192065162 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Transcribing agency | CUS |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 823.914 |
| Item number | JEA/T |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | A talent for the particular : critical essays on R.K. Narayan / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | edited by Raymond-Jean Frontain, Basudeb Chakraborti. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Delhi : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Worldview, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2012. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | vii., 301 pages ; 22 cm |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Includes index. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Introduction : a talent for the particular / Raymond-Jean Frontain -- Negotiating tradition : the complexity of R.K. Narayan's postcolonial position / Sankar Sinha -- Indeterminacy of address and identity in R.K Narayan's Swami and Friends / Baisali Hui -- R.K. Narayan's The Dark Room : an exposure of Indian patriarchy / Chirantan Sarkar -- "Why do you pretend?" : performance, myth and tealism in R.K. Narayan's The Dark Room / Brian Hull -- Walking down Lawley road : What is Malgudi in R.K. Narayan's Malgudi Days / Debiprasad Bhattacharya -- R.K. Narayan's ultimate realism: India's spiritual rebirth in The English Teacher / Nancy Ann Watanabe -- The making of a saint : A new reading of R.K. Narayan's The Guide / Binayak Roy -- Lost at the crossroads : Rosie as R.K. Narayan's version of the new woman / Urmila Chakraborty -- Screening the nation : Guide and the (Re)production of India / Niladri Chatterjee -- R.K. Narayan's The Man-Eater of Malgudi : symbol and allegory / Kalyan Chatterjee -- The irreverence of the comparision : R K. Narayan's rewriting of the sacred narrative in the Man-Eater of Malgudi / Raymond-Jean Frontain -- R.K. Narayan's Hindu world view : Jagan's progress from egotism to mysticism in the Vendor of Sweets / Basudeb Chakraborti -- R.K. Narayan's historic slice of life : theological hybridity and east-west logistics in the Vendor of Sweets / Nancy Ann Watanabe -- Tradition and modernity in R.K. Narayan's the Painter of Signs / Daniel W. Ross -- R.K. Narayan's A Tiger for Malgudi / Angshuman Kar -- Anxiety of an author : a study of R.K. Narayan as a non-fiction writer / Himadri Lahiri -- Re-membering selves : being and writing in R.K. Narayan's My Days / Amit Bhattacharya -- A select bibliography on R.K. Narayan Basudeb Chakraborti and Leena Sarkar -- Notes on contributors -- Index to the works of Narayan. |
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| Keyword | Narayan, R. K., -- 1906-2001 -- Criticism and interpretation. |
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| Keyword | Narayan, R. K., -- 1906-2001. |
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| Koha item type | General Books |
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| Central Library, Sikkim University | Central Library, Sikkim University | General Book Section | 31/07/2016 | 823.914 JEA/T | GB0459 | 31/07/2016 | General Books | Book donated by former VC Prof. Mahendra P. Lama |