Frazer : Robert Watson (1854-1921), graduate of Trinity College, Dublin: entered Madras Civil Service 1877, retired 1886: Lecturer, University Extension, on Indian Architecture: Principal Librarian & Secretary of London Institution: Lecturer in Tamil & Telegu, University College: authored British India (“Story of Nations” series) & A Literary History of India 1898. [Buckland]
... London, 1944). The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism (Faber 8c Faber, London, 1955). Fausset, Hugh I'Anson. A Modern Prelude (Jonathan Cape, London, 1933). Frazer, Sri James George. Man, God and Immortality: Thoughts on Human Progress (Macmillan, London, 1927). Gayley, CM. Methods and Materials of Literary Criticism: Lyric, Epic, and allied forms ...
... Lane, Calcutta. No definite arrangement was made for her expenses up to 20 December 1907. On 6 December, twelve miles from Kharagpur, near Narayangarh, an attempt was made on the life of Sir Andrew Frazer, the Governor of Bengal. A bomb was thrown at the train in which he was travelling. From 7 to 9 December there was a conference at Midnapore. Mr. K. B. Dutt, who was elected President by the Moderates ...
... House of Brut, The, 120, 152, 153-54 Human Cycle, The, 404, 448, 470ff; revised version of 'The psychology of Social Development', 472; Lamprecht's psychological cycle, 472; theories of Frazer, Spengler, Toynbee, 472; Vedic or 'Symbolic' Age, 473; a predominantly spiritual age, 473; 'symbol' to 'type', 473; 'typal' to 'conventional', a dead end, 474; individualist revolt, 474; collectivist ...
... "too complex, too synthetical of many-sided and intermixed tendencies" - Sri Aurobindo nevertheless finds the terms useful and makes them the springboards for his own leaps of dialectic. Sir James Frazer saw human history as moving from the age of magic to the age of religion, and again from the age of religion to the present age of science. Oswald Spengler has elaborated with immense erudition his ...
... a method pregnant of error & delusion. If we consider the hypothesis of a rude ballad-epic doctored by "those Brahmins"—anyone who is curious on the matter may study with both profit & amusement Frazer's History of Indian Literature—we shall perceive how this method has been worked. A fancy was started in Germany that the Iliad of Homer is really a pastiche or clever rifacimento of old ballads put ...
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