Life and Letters of Toru Dutt

Life and Letters of Toru Dutt PDF Author: Toru Dutt
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Category : Authors, Bengali
Languages : en
Pages : 410

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Life and Letters of Toru Dutt

Life and Letters of Toru Dutt PDF Author: Toru Dutt
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Category : Authors, Bengali
Languages : en
Pages : 410

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Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan

Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan PDF Author: Toru Dutt
Publisher: Graphic Arts Books
ISBN: 1513212044
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 86

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Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan (1882) is a collection of poems by Toru Dutt. Compiled after her death and published in London, Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan is an invaluable work of art from a pioneering figure in Indian history and Bengali literature. Born in Calcutta to a family of Bengali Christians, Toru Dutt was raised at the crossroads of English and Indian cultures. In addition to her native Bengali, she became fluent in English, French, and Sanskrit as a young girl, eventually writing novels and poems in each language. Despite her limited body of work, Dutt’s legacy as a groundbreaking writer remains firm in India and around the world. “Savitri was the only child / Of Madra's wise and mighty king; / Stern warriors, when they saw her, smiled, / As mountains smile to see the spring.” In rhyming English verse, Bengali poet Toru Dutt presents some of the oldest and most sacred stories from ancient India. Translated from Sanskrit into the popular ballad form, Dutt introduces an English audience to the story of Savitri, originally from the epic Mahabharata, as well as the tale of Lakshman, which comes from the Hindu epic Ramayana. Alongside these poems appear Dutt’s versions of Bengali folklore—“Joghadhya Uma”—and poems written during her stay in Europe. “Near Hastings” is a particularly beautiful example of her original verse depicting an otherworldly encounter along the English seacoast: “Near Hastings, on the shingle-beach, / We loitered at the time / When ripens on the wall the peach, / The autumn's lovely prime.” With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Toru Dutt’s Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan is a classic work of Bengali literature reimagined for modern readers.

A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields

A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields PDF Author: Toru Dutt
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 262

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Poems of various French authors, translated into English, with notes, by Toru Dutt.

Toru Dutt

Toru Dutt PDF Author: Toru Dutt
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 472

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"This volume brings together her two novels, a book of poetry, and a selection of her letters".--BOOKJACKET.

The Diary of Mademoiselle D'Arvers

The Diary of Mademoiselle D'Arvers PDF Author: Toru Dutt
Publisher: Penguin Books India
ISBN: 9780143032557
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 172

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Set in France in the second half of the nineteenth century, The Diary of Mademoiselle D'Arversis a novel of possibilities and limitations; of love, marriage and domesticity, and the heartaches and joys of growing up. Fifteen-year-old Marguerite, fresh from her convent education and extremely religious, returns to her family and experiences the first stirrings of love, only to find herself entangled in a complicated net of relationships. The story traces Marguerite's growth through adolescence to maturity and marital happiness. Written in secret and discovered by the author's father after her death, this poignant novel is a unique and unexpected outcome of the intellectual, linguistic, and cultural ferment of nineteenth-century colonial Bengal.

Bianca; or, The Young Spanish Maiden

Bianca; or, The Young Spanish Maiden PDF Author: Toru Dutt
Publisher: DigiCat
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 49

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"Bianca; or, The Young Spanish Maiden" by Toru Dutt. Published by DigiCat. DigiCat publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each DigiCat edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Toru Dutt

Toru Dutt PDF Author: Amar Nath Dwivedi
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 172

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Toru Dutt, 1856-1877, Indian English authoress.

Life and Letters of Toru Dutt

Life and Letters of Toru Dutt PDF Author: Toru Dutt
Publisher: Mint Editions
ISBN: 9781513135472
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 338

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Life and Letters of Toru Dutt (1921) is a biography of Toru Dutt. Comprising biographical sections by scholar Harihar Das, selections from her many letters, and commentary on her novels and translations, Life and Letters of Toru Dutt is an invaluable resource for information on a pioneering figure in Indian history and Bengali literature. Born in Calcutta to a family of Bengali Christians, Toru Dutt was raised at the crossroads of English and Indian cultures. In addition to her native Bengali, she became fluent in English, French, and Sanskrit as a young girl, eventually writing novels and poems in each language. Harihar Das' biography is an exhaustive record of her life from youth to young adulthood, granting particular attention to her travels in England and Europe, which Dutt herself describes in beautiful prose in letters to friends and family. Despite her limited body of work, Dutt's legacy as a groundbreaking writer remains firm in India and around the world. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Harihar Das and Toru Dutt's Life and Letters of Toru Dutt is a classic work of Bengali literature reimagined for modern readers.

Colonial Literature and the Native Author

Colonial Literature and the Native Author PDF Author: Jane Stafford
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319387677
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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This book is the first study of writers who are both Victorian and indigenous, who have been educated in and write in terms of Victorian literary conventions, but whose indigenous affiliation is part of their literary personae and subject matter. What happens when the colonised, indigenous, or ‘native’ subject learns to write in the literary language of empire? If the romanticised subject of colonial literature becomes the author, is a new kind of writing produced, or does the native author conform to the models of the coloniser? By investigating the ways that nineteenth-century concerns are adopted, accommodated, rewritten, challenged, re-inscribed, confronted, or assimilated in the work of these authors, this study presents a novel examination of the nature of colonial literary production and indigenous authorship, as well as suggesting to the discipline of colonial and postcolonial studies a perhaps unsettling perspective with which to look at the larger patterns of Victorian cultural and literary formation.

The Making of Indian English Literature

The Making of Indian English Literature PDF Author: Subhendu Mund
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000434230
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 188

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The Making of Indian English Literature brings together seventeen well-researched essays of Subhendu Mund with a long introduction by the author historicising the development of the Indian writing in English while exploring its identity among the many appellations tagged to it. The volume demonstrates, contrary to popular perceptions, that before the official introduction of English education in India, Indians had already tried their hands in nearly all forms of literature: poetry, fiction, drama, essay, bio­graphy, autobiography, book review, literary criticism and travel writing. Besides translation activities, Indians had also started editing and publish­ing periodicals in English before 1835. Through archival research the author brings to discussion a number of unknown and less discussed texts which contributed to the development of the genre. The work includes exclusive essays on such early poets and writers as Kylas Chunder Dutt, Shoshee Chunder Dutt, Toru Dutt, Mirza Moorad Alee Beg, Krupabai Satthianadhan, Swami Vivekananda, H. Dutt, and Sita Chatterjee; and historiographical studies on the various aspects of the genre. The author also examines the strategies used by the early writers to indianise the western language and the form of the novel. The present volume also demonstrates how from the very beginning Indian writing in English had a subtle nationalist agenda and created a space for protest literature. The Making of Indian English Literature will prove an invaluable addition to the studies in Indian writing in English as a source of reference and motivation for further research. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.