Imagining the 'Enemy': adversarial roles in Rabindranath Tagore's short stories

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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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Main Author:	Quayum, Mohammad Abdul
Format:	Article
Language:	English English
Published:	2016
Subjects:	BH Aesthetics BL Religion PE English PI Oriental languages and literatures
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

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