Universalist hopes in India and Europe: the worlds of Rabindranath Tagore and Srečko Kosovel

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...

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1. Verfasser: Jelnikar, Ana 1975- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New Delhi, India Oxford University Press 2016
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Zusammenfassung: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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ISBN:9780199086436
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199460908.001.0001