The Essence of Enlightenment in Raja Rao’s Kanthapura

Authors

  • Dr. S. D. Sasi Kiran Associate Professor of English, School of Technology, Gandhi Institute of Technology and Management, Bangalore

Keywords:

Rural life, Raja Rao, Kanthapura, sons of soil characters, social fabric, mystical metaphysical

Abstract

Man’s relationship with God in contemporary social reality needs to be explored. A study based on Raja Rao’s Kanthapura having rural life at the very centre; sons of soil characters; day to day happenings reveal a way of living and a view of life taking the readers into time machine. The exploration and revelation of the nature of reality through the narration of human actions and an attempt to capture the mystical or the metaphysical are put to investigation in this paper stimulating deeper and deeper social fabric stratum.

Author Biography

Dr. S. D. Sasi Kiran, Associate Professor of English, School of Technology, Gandhi Institute of Technology and Management, Bangalore

Dr. S. D. Sasi Kiran hails from Kakinada and a senior academician interested in the field of Translation. She did MA, M.Sc IT, PGDTE, M.Phil and PhD and recently CELTA. Her thesis at doctorate level ‘Translating the Regional Invisibility: A Discourse Analysis of Telugu Translated Works’ belongs to the area of Translation Studies. Her areas of interest are Translation Studies, Language and Literature of English and Indian Writing in English.

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Published

01.07.2019

How to Cite

Dr. S. D. Sasi Kiran. (2019). The Essence of Enlightenment in Raja Rao’s Kanthapura. Journal of Teaching and Research in English Literature, 10(3), 7–12. Retrieved from https://journals.eltai.in/index.php/jtrel/article/view/36

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 3 (2019): July

Section

Research Articles

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