R.K. Narayan's immense literary oeuvre comprises novels, novellas, short stories, travelogues, and film scripts. This volume offers detailed critical analyses of Narayan's fifteen novels and novellas. Through the lens of the three gunas in Indian philosophy, Ranga Rao traces the novelist's shift from sattvic comedies to rajasic and tamasic ones. He embellishes his critique with rich annotations, offering numerous facts and filiations, drawn from critics as well asfriends and relatives of Narayan. This volume stands out as a definitive study of one of the most prominent authors of early Indian…mehr
R.K. Narayan's immense literary oeuvre comprises novels, novellas, short stories, travelogues, and film scripts. This volume offers detailed critical analyses of Narayan's fifteen novels and novellas. Through the lens of the three gunas in Indian philosophy, Ranga Rao traces the novelist's shift from sattvic comedies to rajasic and tamasic ones. He embellishes his critique with rich annotations, offering numerous facts and filiations, drawn from critics as well asfriends and relatives of Narayan. This volume stands out as a definitive study of one of the most prominent authors of early Indian literature in English. Ranga Rao is a visiting faculty member at the Department of English, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, Puttaparthi, India.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Ranga Rao is a visiting faculty member at the Department of English, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, Puttaparthi, India. He has earlier taught at Sri Venkateswara College in New Delhi, India. Besides creative and critical works, he has also compiled, edited, and translated anthologies.
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* PART I HOME-GROWN: BACKGROUND * Chapter 1: Mixed Sap: A Life * _ * Chapter 2: I Had Not Been False: A Career * Chapter 3: Profundity with a Light Touch: A Style * PART II THE PRE-INDEPENDENCE NOVELS * Chapter 4: In a World Dominated by Adults: Swami and Friends * Chapter 5: Live a Man's Life: The Bachelor of Arts * Chapter 6: Sacral Space: No Trespassing!-The Dark Room * Chapter 7: Purify the Mind and Clarify the Vision: Ordeal and Aftermath * Chapter 8: Some Eternal Scheme: The English Teacher and the Partitive Parallax * Chapter 9: Enchantment in Life: Mr. Sampath and the Naipaul Enigma * PART III * VICEFECTION: THE POST-INDEPENDENCE NOVELS AND NOVELLAS * Chapter 10: A Wizard for Malgudi: The Financial Expert * Chapter 11: The Moth and the Mahatma: Waiting for the Mahatma * Chapter 12: Grateful to Love and Death: The Guide * Chapter 13: For God, Country-and Comedy!: The Man-Eater of Malgudi * Chapter 14: Private Sorrows, Indian Remedy: The Vendor of Sweets * Chapter 15: First Love Again!: The Painter of Signs * Chapter 16: Guru and Chela: A Tiger for Malgudi * Chapter 17: Caution! Masterful Male!: Talkative Man * Chapter 18: Mettle Fatigue: The World of Nagaraj * Chapter 19: Gunas Horror: The Grandmother's Tale * PART IV Summing Up _ * Chapter 20: Cosmic Drama: R.K. Narayan's Gunas Comedy * Bibliography _ * Notes * Bibliography * Index * About the Author
* PART I HOME-GROWN: BACKGROUND * Chapter 1: Mixed Sap: A Life * _ * Chapter 2: I Had Not Been False: A Career * Chapter 3: Profundity with a Light Touch: A Style * PART II THE PRE-INDEPENDENCE NOVELS * Chapter 4: In a World Dominated by Adults: Swami and Friends * Chapter 5: Live a Man's Life: The Bachelor of Arts * Chapter 6: Sacral Space: No Trespassing!-The Dark Room * Chapter 7: Purify the Mind and Clarify the Vision: Ordeal and Aftermath * Chapter 8: Some Eternal Scheme: The English Teacher and the Partitive Parallax * Chapter 9: Enchantment in Life: Mr. Sampath and the Naipaul Enigma * PART III * VICEFECTION: THE POST-INDEPENDENCE NOVELS AND NOVELLAS * Chapter 10: A Wizard for Malgudi: The Financial Expert * Chapter 11: The Moth and the Mahatma: Waiting for the Mahatma * Chapter 12: Grateful to Love and Death: The Guide * Chapter 13: For God, Country-and Comedy!: The Man-Eater of Malgudi * Chapter 14: Private Sorrows, Indian Remedy: The Vendor of Sweets * Chapter 15: First Love Again!: The Painter of Signs * Chapter 16: Guru and Chela: A Tiger for Malgudi * Chapter 17: Caution! Masterful Male!: Talkative Man * Chapter 18: Mettle Fatigue: The World of Nagaraj * Chapter 19: Gunas Horror: The Grandmother's Tale * PART IV Summing Up _ * Chapter 20: Cosmic Drama: R.K. Narayan's Gunas Comedy * Bibliography _ * Notes * Bibliography * Index * About the Author
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