Timeless and (Un)original : the Role of Gossip in R.K. Narayan's The Man-Eater of Malgudi and The Painter of Signs

Tropes of gossip underline much of R.K. Narayan's work and they assume particular significance, I shall argue, in The Man-Eater of Malgudi (1961) and The Painter of Signs (1977), in which they interleave with, and describe an oppositional paradigm to, the processes of printing and sign writing....

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Main Author: James Peacock
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: University of Edinburgh 2008
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/efd4aae51e7243f6a46adcf75aa620bb
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