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Universalist hopes in India and Europe : the worlds of Rabindranath Tagore and Srecko Kosovel / Ana Jelnikar.
Publisher: New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2016Description: 1 online resourceContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780199086436 (ebook) :Subject(s): Tagore, Rabindranath, 1861-1941 -- Criticism and interpretation | Kosovel, Sreécko, 1904-1926 -- Criticism and interpretation | Social values in literatureAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780199460908DDC classification: 891.4414 LOC classification: PK1725Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: An in-depth comparative study of a close, if rather one-sided, encounter between a Slovenian poet, Srecko Kosovel, and Rabindranath Tagore, whom Kosovel read in translation. While Kosovel took inspiration from his Indian contemporary in the 1920s, the two are seen to share a surprisingly similar set of preoccupations, at the core of which was a creative ideal of universalism rather than nationalism, which both considered exclusivist and, therefore, undesirable.| Item type | Current library | Class number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
An in-depth comparative study of a close, if rather one-sided, encounter between a Slovenian poet, Srecko Kosovel, and Rabindranath Tagore, whom Kosovel read in translation. While Kosovel took inspiration from his Indian contemporary in the 1920s, the two are seen to share a surprisingly similar set of preoccupations, at the core of which was a creative ideal of universalism rather than nationalism, which both considered exclusivist and, therefore, undesirable.
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