Imagining the 'Enemy': adversarial roles in Rabindranath Tagore's short stories
This essay investigates Rabindranath Tagore’s portrayal of antagonists or adversarial characters in a select body of his short stories, and argues that his perception of the antagonist is rooted in the influences of the Upanishads and the Bhagavad-Gita on his literary sensibility. Cut off from the...
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2016
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| Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/54799/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/54799/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/54799/1/Imagining%20the%20Enemy.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/54799/7/54799_adversarial%20roles%20in%20Rabindranath%20Tagore_Scopus.pdf |
| Summary: | This essay investigates Rabindranath Tagore’s portrayal of antagonists or adversarial characters in a select
body of his short stories, and argues that his perception of the antagonist is rooted in the influences of the
Upanishads and the Bhagavad-Gita on his literary sensibility. Cut off from the paramatman and their antarkarana, his antagonists live in adviya and in rajasic or tamasic states |
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