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\u27Transport Me ... into the Hearts of Men\u27: Bharati Mukherjee\u27s Darkness
Get PDFIn the miniature painting described by Bharati Mukherjee in \u27Courtly Vision\u27, the final story of Darkness, we see an emblem of Mukherjee\u27s own art,1 an example of intertextuality in which the description of a painting becomes a text that provides the entire book \u27with a means of interpreting it and of justifying its formal and semantic peculiarities\u27? Mukherjee\u27s anonymous painter depicts \u27Count Barthel my, an adventurer from beyond frozen oceans\u27, admiring \u27a likeness of the Begum, painted on a grain of rice by Basawan, the prized court artist\u27 (p. 195); at the end of the story, the Emperor Akbar - third and most notable of the six great Mughal emperors- cries out: \u27You, Basawan, who can paint my Begum on a grain of rice, see what you can do with the infinite vistas the size of my opened hand ... Transport me ... into the hearts of men\u27 (p. 199). As he leads his army out of the capital, Akbar wishes not merely to travel to meet the enemy but to engage in a more thrilling kind of travel, a voyage of the mind and heart. He wants to be transported
Literary Studies at the University of Dar es Salaam: A Mirror of Tanzanian Socialism
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Mahmood Mamdani. Scholars in the Marketplace: The Dilemmas of Neo-Liberal Reform at Makerere University, 1989–2005. Dakar: CODESRIA, 2007. Distributed in the U.S. by Michigan State University Press, xvi + 296 pp. Tables. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index. $24.95. Paper.
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Richard Douglas Jordan. The Temple of Eternity: Thomas Traherne's Philosophy of Time. (National University Publications Series on Literary Criticism, general editor, Eugene Goodheart.) Port Washington, N.Y.London: Kennikat Press, 1972. 125 pp. $8.50.
No full textGeorge T. Wright. Shakespeare's Metrical Art. Berkeley-Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1988. xiv + 349 pp. $39.95.
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