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01756 a2200217 4500 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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240531b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9789389136142 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
824.954 SAT |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Satchidanandan, K. |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Positions: essays on Indian literature |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
Delhi: |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Niyogi Books, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
2019. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
367p.: |
| Other physical details |
hbk.: |
| Dimensions |
23cm. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
Positions features a careful selection from K. Satchidanandan’s essays on Indian literature, written over the past 25 years. The General Theme of the book is Indian literature). The book contains essays that look for paradigms based on Indian textual practices and reading traditions, while also drawing freely on Indian and Western critical concepts and close readings of certain texts. The first part of the book discusses questions on the idea of Indian literature, The poetics of bhakti, the concept of the ‘modern’, the location of English writing in India, The conflicting ideas of India, projected especially by the subaltern literary movements and the issues of literary criticism and translation. The second part of the book discusses the work of individual authors including Sarala Das, Mirza Ghalib, Kabir, Rabindranath Tagore, Saratchandra Chatterjee, Sarojini Naidu, kedarnath Singh, a.K. Ramanujan and Kamala Das. These essays will contribute to the growing, yet insufficient, corpus of literary studies in India.<br/><br/>https://www.amazon.in/Positions-Essays-Literature-K-Satchidanandan/dp/9389136148#:~:text=The%20first%20part%20of%20the,of%20literary%20criticism%20and%20translation. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Criticism |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Interpretation |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Indian Literature |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Essay |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Literary Movements |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Literature |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Item type |
Books |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Dewey Decimal Classification |
