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Author:   Promodini Varma ,  Anubhav Pradhan
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge India
Weight:   0.530kg
ISBN:  

9780367728328

ISBN 10:   036772832
Pages:   274
Publication Date:   18 December 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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"Introduction: 'When Two Strong Men Stand Face to Face': Locating Kipling with Yeats Part I. Influences and Legacies 1. Yeats and Kipling: Parallels, Divergences, and Convergences 2. Mowgli, the Law of the Jungle, and the Panchatantra 3. The Ungendered Self: Yeats’s 'A Prayer for My Daughter' in the Light of Indian Philosophy 4. Songs of the Wandering Aengus: Echoes of the Political Yeats in Dorothy Salisbury Davis’s The Habit of Fear Part II. Self and Society 5. Yeats, Kipling and the Haven-Finding Art 6. Transgressed Margins: Reading the ‘Other’ Kipling 7. ‘Turning from the Mirror to Meditation upon a Mask’: Yeats’s Search for his Daimon in 'Ego Dominus Tuus' 8. Kim’s Modern Education: Rudyard Kipling the Zealot Part III. Craft, Medium, Politics 9. The Chameleon and the Peacock: Kipling and Yeats as Creative Readers of Shakespeare 10. ‘The Writer is Indebted to the Pioneer and Civil and Military Gazette’: Kipling, Newspapers, and Poetry 11. Politics, Drama, and Poetry: The Political Vision of W.B. Yeats as Reflected in Select Plays and Poems 12. Redefining the Body of Censorship: Reading Rudyard Kipling’s Indian Short Stories (1888–1902) 13. Rudyard Kipling and the Networks of Empire: Writing Imperial Infrastructure in The Light that Failed and Captains Courageous Part IV. Masculinity and/as Empire 14. ‘The Passionless Passion of Slaughter’: Heroism and the Aesthetics of Violence 15. ‘I am not a Sahib’: Boys and Masculinity in Kipling’s Indian Fiction 16. Does Kipling’s ""If"" Appropriate the Gita? Correlating Empire, Muscular Christianity and Sthitaprajna 17. Chaps: Kipling, Yeats, and the Empire of Men"

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Promodini Varma is Director (Admissions & Evaluations) at South Asian University, New Delhi, India. She was Principal at Bharati College, University of Delhi, until May 2015 and was part of the Department of English since the college’s inception. She has edited six textbooks for undergraduate students at the University of Delhi as well as translated some of Samuel Beckett’s plays into Hindi. Her research interests include South Asian literature, modern drama, and English Language Teaching. Anubhav Pradhan is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia, India, and works on colonial ethnography and the British imagination of India. Simultaneously, he is also engaged in questions of affect, heritage, land, and identity with close reference to Delhi. He has served Primus Books as its Senior Marketing Editor and Bharati College, University of Delhi, as an Assistant Professor.

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