Mystic Modernity by Ashim Dutta
This book is a comparative study of the confluence of mysticism and modernity in the poetical and cultural outlooks of Rabindranath Tagore and W. B. Yeats. The book demonstrates how their commitments to transnational mysticism deeply form and inform their modernist literary projects as well as their understanding of cultural modernity.-
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Transnational African Identities in Contemporary Urban Fiction
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The Literary Beach
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Epiphanies in the Modernist Short Story
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Convergence of East-West Poetics
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Romantic Legacies
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Teaching in Times of Crisis
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The Crisis of Liberal Democracy in Contemporary Novels
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Perpetrators’ Legacies
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A Comparative Reading of Pan-Africanism and Afropolitanism
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Modern Indian Literature as Cosmopolis
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Breathing Underwater
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Failure Narratives Beyond Redemption
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The Bildungsroman
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Family Fictions and World Making
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Cryptic Subtexts in Literature and Film
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Narrating Death
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The Limits of Cosmopolitanism
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Spanish Vampire Fiction since 1900
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Xueqin and Xakespeare
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A Cosmopolitan Approach to Literature
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Bengal and Italy
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Modern American Literature and Contemporary Iranian Cinema
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Literature and Ethics in Contemporary Brazil
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The Historical Novel, Transnationalism, and the Postmodern Era
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Translingual Francophonie and the Limits of Translation
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Beyond Collective Memory
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Holocaust Narratives
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Reclaiming Karbala
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World War II in Contemporary German and Dutch Fiction
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Modernism and the Avant-garde Body in Spain and Italy
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Bicultural Literature and Film in French and English
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Life in Citations
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A Marxist Perspective on Select Fiction by Indian Writers from the Gulf
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Hybridity, Identity, and Belonging in the Poetry of Moniza Alvi and Choman Hardi
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Cluttered Universes of Samuel Beckett and Tadeusz Kantor
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Post-Monolingual Anglophone Novels
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New Directions in Flânerie
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World Literature After Empire
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Post-Romantic Aesthetics in Contemporary British and Irish Poetry
"Mystic Modernity: Tagore and Yeats is a brilliant account of the relationship between the two poets, written by a scholar expert in both Bengali and Irish literary traditionsWith careful attention to biographical as well as poetic sources, Dutta analyzes a friendship grounded in spiritual interests outside the conventions of modernism."
Lucy McDiarmid, Marie Frazee-Baldassarre Professor of English, Montclair State University
"Ashim Dutta’s book is long overdue, for the affinities between Tagore and Yeats that brought them together needed to be contextualized from a perspective considering contemporary mystical modes and transnational exchanges. Based on extensive research and sustained analysis, Dutta’s work offers new insights into the transcontinental cross-currents stimulating creative minds in the early modern era."
Fakrul Alam, UGC Professor, Department of English, University of Dhaka
"Dutta’s book recreates the Tagore and Yeats relationship in wholly original terms, offering an account of two poets who engaged very closely in a shared poetical project of mystical modernism. Dutta insists that we take their heterodox spiritual beliefs very seriously indeed, as both a complement and a challenge to conventional politicised readings."
Matthew Campbell, Professor of Modern Literature, University of York
"Bypassing narratives that force readers to choose between secular/modern or mystical/spiritual readings of W. B. Yeats and Rabindranath Tagore, Ashim Dutta expertly insists on both. Dutta’s deeply informed study, a model for bilingual and transcultural research, shows that the syncretic and eclectic mysticism of both writers is intrinsically modern, and equally that their distinct modernities are inextricably mystical. Dutta’s sensitive readings of writers who famously admired and misunderstood each other leads to precise re-calibrations of each. This is a brilliant study, strikingly original and utterly convincing."
Margaret Mills Harper, University of Limerick
Ashim Dutta, M.A. (Dhaka), M.A. (Montclair), Ph.D. (York, UK), is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Dhaka. He has published essays in Bengali and English in such scholarly journals as The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, International Yeats Studies, Gitanjali and Beyond, and Bangla Academy Patrika (Dhaka).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781032129341 |
| ISBN 10 | 1032129344 |
| Title | Mystic Modernity |
| Author | Ashim Dutta |
| Series | Routledge Studies In Comparative Literature |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Year published | 2023-09-25 |
| Number of pages | 176 |
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