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The Calcutta Review an Illustrated Monthly (Third Series) December 1936

1936

Agriculture must form a distinctive part of the work of the university and the possibility of increasing the productive power of land with the aid of science explored and explained. [...] From the point of view of this evolutionary process we may broadly distinguish three periods in the history of European literature : the period of physical action and observation the period of reason and loquacity and the period of introspection and silence respectively corresponding in a very general way to the period from the earliest times to the flowering of the Renaissance the period fro [...] During the period of about two hundred and fifty years from the Middle of the 17th century to the end of the 19th with an interrution of about three decades towards the beginning of the 19th century poetry and drama became intellectualised while the most important literary product of the times the novel is characterised by loquacity springing as much from reason as from sentiment. [...] The period of the epics the chansons the romances of chivalry and the Elizabethan drama reflects the vivacity and bustle of life. [...] Distrust of the spoken word as a means of revelation of inner life gained some ground in the beginning of the present century ; but the work that Maeterlinck began was mainly continued and his theory pushed to the extreme in France after the War by a number of dramatists who have been styled the School of Silence.
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Pages
144
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120137
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-ii unknown view
University Convocation Address
273-282 Syamaprasad Mookerjee view
The Drama of Silence
283-296 Jnanendranath Chaudhuri view
Rammohun Roy—some Facts Connected with his Early Life
297-320 Upendranath Ball view
The Religion of Ancient Egypt: A Comparative Study
321-328 Susilkumar Mitra view
Ethical Action and its Fruit
329-338 Brij Sharma view
The Juristic Conception of Dominion Status
339-352 D.C. Gupta view
The Byronic Hero—A Study in Development
353-360 A.K. Sen view
To and from South America
361-369 Kalidas Nag view
Evolution of Modern Civilization and Failure of Revolutions
370-372 Tarak Das view
At Home and Abroad
373-378 unknown view
News and Views
379-383 unknown view
Miscellany
384-390 Benoy Sarkar view
Reviews and Notices of Books
391-394 unknown view
Ourselves
395-398 unknown view
Backmatter
1-16 unknown view

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