Rajeev S Patke
Biographic Data
| ID | 270064 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rajeev S Patke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rajeev S |
| FAMILY NAME | Patke |
| SIGNATURE | PATKE R S |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Singapore |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Chimeras of Form
Reviewed by: Chimeras of Form: Modernist internationalism beyond Europe, 1914–2016 by Aarthi Vadde Rajeev S. Patke Chimeras of Form: Modernist internationalism beyond Europe, 1914–2016 By Aarthi Vadde. New York: Columbia University Press, 2017. National boundaries have always been more porous on the ground than in maps or in traditional discourses at the interface between politics, culture and writing. Trends in literary and cultural studies have…
Music as a Form of Cultural Dialogue
The paper explores the notion of cultural dialogue in terms of a specific application: the contributions made by the sitar music of the Indian musician Ravi Shankar to the setting up of a conversation between the musical traditions of North India and their reception and partial assimilation by largely Western audiences. A survey of Shankar’s career, contextualized by a more general discussion of the problems and challenges encountered in bringing…
Partition and its aftermath
This essay examines the impact of partition on poetry with specific reference to the partition of Ireland. It analyzes poetic representations of and reactions to “the Irish Troubles” and the creation of Northern Ireland in the context of narratives of divisive nationhood that include, among other partitions, the creation of Israel in the Middle East, and Pakistan in South Asia. Through an analysis of selected texts ranging from those by W.B. Yeat…
The Routledge Concise History of Southeast Asian Writing in English
The Routledge Concise History of Southeast Asian Writing in English traces the development of literature in the region within its historical and cultural contexts. This volume explores creative writing in English across different genres and media, establishing connections from the colonial activity of the early modern period through to contemporary writing across Southeast Asia, focusing especially on the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore and Hong…
A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures - Continental Europe and its Empires
Your complete reference to the postcolonial literatures of Continental European Empires This is the first reference work to provide an integrated and authoritative body of information about the political, cultural and economic contexts of postcolonial literatures that have their provenance in the major European Empires of Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain as well as places like Latin America and the Ph…
Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures
Yeats among Painters
W B Yeats (1865–1939) exemplifies every conceivable way in which a poet might find a use for painting: he dabbled briefly with paints, lived among painters, expressed decided views on the arts, ass
Modernist poetic practices in English poetry from Southeast Asia
Poetic Knowledge
Whether poetry gives knowledge or not is a question that has been debated from a variety of perspectives, depending on how a society or a culture defines knowledge, and on the function it ascribes to poetry in relation to that definition. The civilizations of Asia and the Middle East have generally taken the line that poetry deals primarily with affects, emotions and feelings. The West has had a more complicated history of responses. One way of m…
Postcolonial Cultures
Benjamin and Bakhtin
Benjamin and Bakhtin·. The Possibility of Conversation Rajeev S. Patke I. Of Conversation This paper explores the metaphor of conversation in respect to a conjunction between Benjamin and Bakhtin. As metaphor, conversation stands not for the possibility that two people, if they are imagined meeting —or if their beliefs and assumptions are brought together—might be affected by the encounter, but for how the interaction of ideas and arguments might…
Nationalism, Diaspora, Exile
Benjamin in Bombay? An Extrapolation
Postmodern Culture - Volume 12, Number 3, May 2002
Back to the Future
Antinomial Walter Benjamin
Walter Benjamin's Other History: Of Stones, Animals, Human Beings, and Angels. By Beatrice Hanssen (Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1998), 218 pp. $35.00 cloth
Forms of Farewell
The Long Poems of Wallace Stevens
The Comedian as the Letter C 2. Owl's Clover 3. The Man with the Blue Guitar 4. Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction 5. Esthetique Du Mal 6. The Auroras of Autumn 7. An Ordinary Evening in New Haven Conclusion Notes References Index
Stevens and Stephens
S UBSTANTIVE correspondences appear to exist between three of Wallace Stevens' poems and a work of travel-literature which he is known to have possessed: John L(loyd) Stephens' Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan, 2 vols. (London: John Murray, i84I-43).' three poems are: The Worms at Heaven's Gate (I9I6), The Comedian as the Letter C (I92I-22), and poem III (A lasting visage in a lasting bush) of Notes toward a Supreme Fi…
Postcolonial Cultures
The Routledge Concise History of Southeast Asian Writing in English
The Routledge Concise History of Southeast Asian Writing in English traces the development of literature in the region within its historical and cultural contexts. This volume explores creative writing in English across different genres and media, establishing connections from the colonial activity of the early modern period through to contemporary writing across Southeast Asia, focusing especially on the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore and Hong…
Poetic Knowledge
Whether poetry gives knowledge or not is a question that has been debated from a variety of perspectives, depending on how a society or a culture defines knowledge, and on the function it ascribes to poetry in relation to that definition. The civilizations of Asia and the Middle East have generally taken the line that poetry deals primarily with affects, emotions and feelings. The West has had a more complicated history of responses. One way of m…
Partition and its aftermath
This essay examines the impact of partition on poetry with specific reference to the partition of Ireland. It analyzes poetic representations of and reactions to “the Irish Troubles” and the creation of Northern Ireland in the context of narratives of divisive nationhood that include, among other partitions, the creation of Israel in the Middle East, and Pakistan in South Asia. Through an analysis of selected texts ranging from those by W.B. Yeat…
Modernist poetic practices in English poetry from Southeast Asia
Stevens and Stephens
S UBSTANTIVE correspondences appear to exist between three of Wallace Stevens' poems and a work of travel-literature which he is known to have possessed: John L(loyd) Stephens' Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan, 2 vols. (London: John Murray, i84I-43).' three poems are: The Worms at Heaven's Gate (I9I6), The Comedian as the Letter C (I92I-22), and poem III (A lasting visage in a lasting bush) of Notes toward a Supreme Fi…
The Long Poems of Wallace Stevens
The Comedian as the Letter C 2. Owl's Clover 3. The Man with the Blue Guitar 4. Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction 5. Esthetique Du Mal 6. The Auroras of Autumn 7. An Ordinary Evening in New Haven Conclusion Notes References Index
Forms of Farewell
Antinomial Walter Benjamin
Walter Benjamin's Other History: Of Stones, Animals, Human Beings, and Angels. By Beatrice Hanssen (Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1998), 218 pp. $35.00 cloth
Benjamin in Bombay? An Extrapolation
Postmodern Culture - Volume 12, Number 3, May 2002
Back to the Future
Benjamin and Bakhtin
Benjamin and Bakhtin·. The Possibility of Conversation Rajeev S. Patke I. Of Conversation This paper explores the metaphor of conversation in respect to a conjunction between Benjamin and Bakhtin. As metaphor, conversation stands not for the possibility that two people, if they are imagined meeting —or if their beliefs and assumptions are brought together—might be affected by the encounter, but for how the interaction of ideas and arguments might…
Nationalism, Diaspora, Exile
Poetic Knowledge
Whether poetry gives knowledge or not is a question that has been debated from a variety of perspectives, depending on how a society or a culture defines knowledge, and on the function it ascribes to poetry in relation to that definition. The civilizations of Asia and the Middle East have generally taken the line that poetry deals primarily with affects, emotions and feelings. The West has had a more complicated history of responses. One way of m…
Postcolonial Cultures
A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures - Continental Europe and its Empires
Your complete reference to the postcolonial literatures of Continental European Empires This is the first reference work to provide an integrated and authoritative body of information about the political, cultural and economic contexts of postcolonial literatures that have their provenance in the major European Empires of Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain as well as places like Latin America and the Ph…
Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures
Yeats among Painters
W B Yeats (1865–1939) exemplifies every conceivable way in which a poet might find a use for painting: he dabbled briefly with paints, lived among painters, expressed decided views on the arts, ass
Modernist poetic practices in English poetry from Southeast Asia
The Routledge Concise History of Southeast Asian Writing in English
The Routledge Concise History of Southeast Asian Writing in English traces the development of literature in the region within its historical and cultural contexts. This volume explores creative writing in English across different genres and media, establishing connections from the colonial activity of the early modern period through to contemporary writing across Southeast Asia, focusing especially on the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore and Hong…
Partition and its aftermath
This essay examines the impact of partition on poetry with specific reference to the partition of Ireland. It analyzes poetic representations of and reactions to “the Irish Troubles” and the creation of Northern Ireland in the context of narratives of divisive nationhood that include, among other partitions, the creation of Israel in the Middle East, and Pakistan in South Asia. Through an analysis of selected texts ranging from those by W.B. Yeat…
Music as a Form of Cultural Dialogue
The paper explores the notion of cultural dialogue in terms of a specific application: the contributions made by the sitar music of the Indian musician Ravi Shankar to the setting up of a conversation between the musical traditions of North India and their reception and partial assimilation by largely Western audiences. A survey of Shankar’s career, contextualized by a more general discussion of the problems and challenges encountered in bringing…
Chimeras of Form
Reviewed by: Chimeras of Form: Modernist internationalism beyond Europe, 1914–2016 by Aarthi Vadde Rajeev S. Patke Chimeras of Form: Modernist internationalism beyond Europe, 1914–2016 By Aarthi Vadde. New York: Columbia University Press, 2017. National boundaries have always been more porous on the ground than in maps or in traditional discourses at the interface between politics, culture and writing. Trends in literary and cultural studies have…
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