Raja
Rao (1908-2006) is one of the best Indian novelists writing in English. He
occupies a central position in any discussion of Indian English literature.
He is the foremost of those writers whose work has placed Indo-English
literature on the map of world literatures. His first and best-known novel,
Kanthapura (1938) earned him an international acclaim and acceptance as one
of the major novelists in Indian English literature. Kanthapura is a novel
dealing with the impact of the Gandhian freedom struggle on a remote South
Indian village of that name. In this novel Raja Rao uses myths and legends to
enrich the texture of the novel and impart to it a rare expansiveness,
elevation and dignity. The paper attempts to show parallelism between
Ramayana and Kanthapura by examining Raja Rao's artistic use of myth in the
novel. Ishfaq Hussain Bhat"Use of Myth in Kanthapura: Parallelism
Between Ramayana and Kanthapura" Published in International Journal of
Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470,
Volume-2 | Issue-1 , December 2017, URL:
http://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd5940.pdf
Article URL:
http://www.ijtsrd.com/humanities-and-the-arts/english/5940/use-of-myth-in-kanthapura-parallelism-between-ramayana-and-kanthapura/ishfaq-hussain-bhat |
