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Narayan: A Study in Transcendence (Studies of World Literature in English Series)

Authors: Mary Beatina O.S.M.
ISBN: 9780820421377
Binding: Hardcover
Year: 1993
Pages: 166
Size: 15 x 23 cm Weight: 395 grams Price: INR 1400.00

The integration of the spiritual and the practical is the very culture and tradition of India. R.K. Narayan represents with exceptional clarity and sensitivity the Indian tradition, by presenting the interaction between mundane and transcendent aspects of everyday Indian life. Contrary to many Western notions about the Indian experience, it is only through this interaction that the full range and depth of Indian spiritual life can be represented. Many have worked on Narayan and his fiction but no one has considered the question of mundane-transcendent interactions. This book focuses on Narayan's representation of this Indian tradition and opens new ground by clearly picturing the Indianness of spirituality in ordinary daily life.

Regina Egetenmeyer

Regina Egetenmeyer is Professor for Lifelong Learning at the University of Mainz (Juniorprofessor). Her emphases of research are international and comparative adult educational research, informal learning in the workplace, and academic professionalisation in adult and lifelong learning.

Ekkehard Nuissl

Ekkehard Nuissl is Scientific Director of the German Institute for Adult Education – Leibniz Centre for Lifelong Learning (DIE) and University Professor for adult education at the University of Duisburg-Essen. His emphases of research are teaching and learning, international educational policy, evaluation research and institutional research.