title: The Motif of Journey in Kunwar Narain’s Poetry
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metadata.value: Lesik, Ksenia A.
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metadata.value: 2021-02-11T21:32:39Z
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metadata.value: 2021-02-11T21:32:39Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2020-12
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metadata.value: Lesik K. A. The Motif of Journey in Kunwar Narain’s Poetry. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2020, vol. 12, issue 4, pp. 521–533.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu13.2020.404
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/23900
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metadata.value: The article is focused on the motif of a journey in the works of a modern Indian poet, Kunwar
  Narain, a representative of New Hindi poetry. This motif of a journey is extremely important
  in Indology studies. Starting with the Indian epic poems “Mahabharata” and “Ramayana”, the
  motif of pilgrimage has been one of the significant plot lines. During the Medieval period, the
  motif of a journey became an allegory of individuality cognition. In modern Hindi literature
  writers introduce innovation in the image of travel, remaining within the established Indian
  tradition. The research in this article is based on the bilingual collection of poems by Kunwar
  Narain “No other world”. The article argues that a journey becomes the leitmotif in the poet’s
  lyrics. As a result, the Indian poet writes a kind of a travel literature, which is based on the
  image of the way with two semantic motives: a journey as a hero’s movement in space and a
  hero’s search for his essence, including a peculiar path as an allegory of his spiritual formation. The article focuses on the compositional distribution of poems in the “Journey” section
  of the book. This distribution expresses the movement of the author’s thoughts. The analysis
  of the literary techniques, symbolic images and allusions was conducted in the frames of not
  only Indian literature, but also American poet Walt Whitman’s creations, which had a great
  influence on Kunwar Narain’s lyrics. Literary influences are identified that contributed to the
  formation of the Indian poet’s worldview.
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies;Volume 12; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Kunwar Narain
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metadata.value: New Hindi poetry
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metadata.value: the motif of journey
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metadata.value: The Motif of Journey in Kunwar Narain’s Poetry
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metadata.value: Article
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