Prasanta Chakravarty

Time, Doubt and Wonder in the Humanities (eBook, ePUB)

Between the Tick and the Tock

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Time, Doubt and Wonder in the Humanities addresses a serious lacuna in humanities studies. It affirms our commitment to wonder and adventure in living by confronting the subtext that lies within the manifold worldly, social and political vicissitudes and tribulations. The essays in this volume speak to our times and make sense of the idea of temporality in general by using wonder as an inclusive metaphor, which engulfs fortitude, anguish, joy, providence, submission, precariousness and revulsion. Wonder could lead to curiosity to inspiration to doubt to questioning to indignation to seeking of justice.
The book offers a benchmark in thinking about why we must take literature and art seriously in times of great political turmoil. It affirms that the shape and contour of literary studies shall depend on how the coming generation maintains a delicate balance among inspiration, doubt and faith.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789388134262
• Artikelnr.: 54890841

Autorenporträt

Prasanta Chakravarty is Associate Professor of English at the University of Delhi and the editor of the web-journal humanitiesunderground.org. His most recent work is Time, Doubt and the Wonder in the Humanities: Between the Tick and the Tock (2019). His other works include The Opulence of Existence, Essays on Aesthetics and Politics (2016); Like Parchment in the Fire: Literature and Radicalism in the English Civil War (2006) which deals with early modern radical culture and an edited volume on contemporary writings on humanities titled Shrapnel Minima, Writings from Humanities Underground (2014). Chakravarty nurtures a particular interest in poetry and poetics and enjoys translating significant contemporary literary writings into English.

Inhaltsangabe

Opening Words: Time, Doubt and Wonder
1. If This Be Saddle-Time
2. Precarity Against Heroic Virility
3. Literature and Silence
4. Rain and Revulsion
5. Linger Like Moisture Within
6. Consecration in Art
7. Minstrelsy
8. My Rifle, My Bible
9. Expenditure, Insolvency and Recovery in Poetry
10. Adam, Eve and the Discrete Art of Whiggery
11. The Other Martin Luther
12. The Torah as Literature
13. All Flesh is Grass
14. The Act of Translation: Slow Rendering of an Ache
15. Creatures in Shards: Elem Klimov's Come and See
16. Kojin Karatani's Exchange Recurrences and Isonomic Associationism
17. The Lattice of Paranoia: University of Delhi, Circa 2017-2018
18. Between the Tick and the Tock
Index