East West Encounter in the Romantics: A Novel: Clash of Philosophical and Pragmatic Logics
Exploring the Cultural Clash in East-West Encounters
by Dr. Asok A. R.*,
- Published in Journal of Advances and Scholarly Researches in Allied Education, E-ISSN: 2230-7540
Volume 16, Issue No. 4, Mar 2019, Pages 235 - 248 (14)
Published by: Ignited Minds Journals
ABSTRACT
The Romantics: A Novel, depicts the protagonist Samar, a Brahmin boy more or less rooted in the Indian traditional mind set but at the same time drifted away to a great extent by the type of education prevailing in India. His western education tends him to be in the company of some characters from the West who are on a sojourn in India. The confrontation ends up in disillusionment and dejection. A probe into the reasons bring out the nuances of the divide between the Orient and the Occident.
KEYWORD
Romantics, Brahmin, Indian traditional mindset, education, West, confrontation, disillusionment, dejection, divide, Orient, Occident
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Corresponding Author Dr. Asok A. R.*
Associate Professor, SVR NSS College, Vazhoor