Literary historiography
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This is the second of the six lectures delivered by Prof. Velcheru Narayana Rao as part of the Nauras lecture series held at Bangalore International Centre, Bengaluru, May 2019.
I will begin with a story you all know. If you are bored by this story you know so well, forgive me for a few minutes.…
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Question: Where do you think the relevance of Comparative Literature lies vis-a-vis the socio-cultural context of India?
Rizio Yohannan Raj: Modern India as an integrated socio-cultural entity is a fantasy that we are still desperately attempting to negotiate. We must wake up to the fact that our…
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The literary work is a deliberate creation of language which addresses readers through different formal configurations, which we call genres. Every work is oriented towards the reader/addressee through a particular arrangement of thematic and generic conventions which form the mode of address and…
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