A talent for the particular : critical essays on R.K. Narayan / edited by Raymond-Jean Frontain, Basudeb Chakraborti.
Material type: TextPublication details: Delhi : Worldview, 2012Description: vii., 301 pages ; 22 cmISBN: 9788192065168 ; 8192065162Subject(s): Narayan, R. K., -- 1906-2001 -- Criticism and interpretation | Narayan, R. K., -- 1906-2001DDC classification: 823.914Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Books | Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section | 823.914 JEA/T (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | Book donated by former VC Prof. Mahendra P. Lama | GB0459 |
Includes index.
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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