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...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English English |
| Published: |
2016
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | 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 |
| _version_ | 1848784471084498944 |
|---|---|
| author | Quayum, Mohammad Abdul |
| author_facet | Quayum, Mohammad Abdul |
| author_sort | Quayum, Mohammad Abdul |
| building | IIUM Repository |
| collection | Online Access |
| description | 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 |
| first_indexed | 2025-11-14T16:37:46Z |
| format | Article |
| id | iium-54799 |
| institution | International Islamic University Malaysia |
| institution_category | Local University |
| language | English English |
| last_indexed | 2025-11-14T16:37:46Z |
| publishDate | 2016 |
| recordtype | eprints |
| repository_type | Digital Repository |
| spelling | iium-547992017-04-20T07:10:17Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/54799/ Imagining the 'Enemy': adversarial roles in Rabindranath Tagore's short stories Quayum, Mohammad Abdul BH Aesthetics BL Religion PE English PI Oriental languages and literatures 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 2016-12 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/54799/1/Imagining%20the%20Enemy.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/54799/7/54799_adversarial%20roles%20in%20Rabindranath%20Tagore_Scopus.pdf Quayum, Mohammad Abdul (2016) Imagining the 'Enemy': adversarial roles in Rabindranath Tagore's short stories. Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, 8 (4). pp. 70-81. ISSN 0975-2935 http://rupkatha.com/V8/n4/v8n409.pdf |
| spellingShingle | BH Aesthetics BL Religion PE English PI Oriental languages and literatures Quayum, Mohammad Abdul Imagining the 'Enemy': adversarial roles in Rabindranath Tagore's short stories |
| title | Imagining the 'Enemy': adversarial roles in Rabindranath Tagore's short stories |
| title_full | Imagining the 'Enemy': adversarial roles in Rabindranath Tagore's short stories |
| title_fullStr | Imagining the 'Enemy': adversarial roles in Rabindranath Tagore's short stories |
| title_full_unstemmed | Imagining the 'Enemy': adversarial roles in Rabindranath Tagore's short stories |
| title_short | Imagining the 'Enemy': adversarial roles in Rabindranath Tagore's short stories |
| title_sort | imagining the 'enemy': adversarial roles in rabindranath tagore's short stories |
| topic | BH Aesthetics BL Religion PE English PI Oriental languages and literatures |
| url | 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 |