Tradition and Modernity: A Critical Study of Amit Chaudhuri’s A Strange and Sublime Address
Journal Title: Notions A Journal of English Literature - Year 2017, Vol 0, Issue 3
Abstract
The present paper makes a systematic and thematic analysis of Amit Chaudhuri’s debut novel, A Strange and Sublime Address (1991). It expounds how far Amit Chaudhuri’s modern outlook helps him to blend the tradition and modernity of India in his novels. Indeed, postmodern society emerged from a traditional society. Thus there is always a continuity that remains undercurrent that moves to modernity. This very fundamental idea can be explored in every novel of Amit Chaudhuri with critical acumens. Mainly, postmodern writers are distress over the loss of tradition in the modern society. Still they admit the present situation with a sense that it is the predicament of life in the present situation. They further accept that in the postmodern era man should hail the unavoidable changes with receptive soul in order to move further.
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M. Sivakumar
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