Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 2004. Graduate Programme in English. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 315-337). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/yorku/fullcit?pNQ99152

Western civilization has been influenced by Indian thought in two ways - one through the Greeks, and the other through modern English scholarship. The former has affected us but slightly, being the result of oral interchange, rather than of immediate literary borrowing, - thus passing only indirectly into our system. The latter is reacting upon English literature today in a manner and to an extent which seems not to have been fully realized by either the East or the West. India still remains the western world something of a mystery, a succession of romantic and gorgeous pictures, or a fantastic fable, without form or meaning. To capture the flavor of this extraordinary land, to understand the inner life of her people, their experiences and ways of thought, their beliefs and aspirations, can only become possible by going back three thousand five hundred years in her history and tracing the wide and uninterrupted stream of her literary activity, up from the early Sanskrit Vedas of 1500 B.C. to the present time, when Sanskrit works still continue to be written side by side with modern works in English, whose modes of thought and expression are different from those of the West, because of their Sanskrit background, and which are offering what to us are new ways of solving problems, new interpretations of life, new modes of artistic expression, gleaned from the genius of their ancient culture. Thus, it runs through the whole history of India, through its three or four thousand years, a high road, or it is perhaps more accurate to say, a high mountain path of literature. With the exception of China, Max Muller tells us, there is nothing like this literary continuity in the whole world. It is the purpose of this thesis to trace the flow of the stream of literacy activity down to the present time when, with the birth of Indo-Anglian literature, the fundamental purpose of Indian literature has become revealed to the world,- with the earnest desire that this revelation may be one more means of strengthening the ties between East and West.

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Festschrift honoring K.M. George, b. 1914, Malayalam scholar and critic, on his 70th birthday; comprises articles on his life and works and on Indic literature. / In Malayalam. Running title: Ḍō. Ke. Eṃ. Jōrj saptatismaraṇika. "Ke. Em. Jōrjinr̲e kr̥tikaḷ: sūcika": p. [331]-340. Includes bibliographies.

This thesis demonstrates how a specific tradition of English poetry written by Indians in the nineteenth-century borrowed its subject matter from Orientalist research into Indian antiquity, and its style and forms from the English poetic tradition. After an examination of the political, historical and social motivations that resulted in the birth of colonial poetry in India, the poets dealt with comprise Henry Louis Vivian Derozio (1809-31), the first Indian poet writing in English ; Kasiprasad Ghosh (1809-73), the first Bengali Hindu to write English verse; and Michael Madhusudan Dutt (1824-73), who converted to Christianity in the hope of reaching England and becoming a great 'English' poet. A subsequent chapter examines the Dutt Family Album (London, 1870) in the changing political context of the latter half of the century. In the Conclusion it is shown how the advent of Modernism in England, and the birth of an active nationalism in India, finally brought about the end of all aspects of what is here called 'Orientalist' verse. This area has not been dealt with comprehensively by critics; only one book, Lotika Basu's Indian Writers of English Verse (1933), exists on this subject to date. This thesis, besides filling the gaps that exist in the knowledge available in this area, also brings an additional insight to bear on the current debate on colonialism and literature. After Said's Orientalism (1978), a spate of theoretical work has been published on literary studies and colonial power in British India. Without restricting the argument to the constraints of the Saidian model, this study addresses the issues raised by these works, showing that a subtler reading is possible, through the medium of this poetry, of the interaction that took place in India between the production of literature and colonialism. In particular, this thesis demonstrates that although Orientalist poetry was in many ways derivative, it also evinces an active and developing response to the imposition of British culture upon India.

Thesis (M.S.)--Florida State University, 2003. / Advisor: Dr. Kathleen Erndl, Florida State University, College of Social Sciences, Dept. of International Affairs. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed Mar. 2, 2004). Includes bibliographical references.

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Thesis--Auburn University, 2009. / Abstract. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 55-56).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--State University of New York, 1992. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 383-391).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--State University of New York, 1992. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 383-391).