Trivium : Vol - 2 : No - 1 : Issue - 2
We are happy to publish in this issue a medley of thought-provoking essays ranging from the Renaissance to the postmodern, in the process exposing a link between the ages. The notion of post-truth in our conflicting present can be traced as far back as the works of Shakespeare. The contestation of truth and fake news – an experience troubling our use of language has been found to be active in Shakespeare’s tragedies in a masterly exposition. The resonance of the Renaissance continues in another essay on the Imitation theory – the author finds the spirit of PietroBembo active in the efforts of Du Bellay in developing an imitation theory in the French Renaissance. Two essays may be said to be guided by the inspiration of postcolonial and postmodern theory. One traces the career and reception of an Indian lady Catherine Grand who lived an interesting life as the mistress of Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord in Napoleonic France. The other takes up two novels by Don De Lillo to present a geo-spatial understanding of cities as sites of profound paradox. Two essays deal with Indian themes – one dealing with the invitation by Tagore of Orientalist scholars from the West to Visva-Bharati, Tagore’s inspirational university, overturning the paradigm of production and distribution of knowledge from the West to the East; the other deals with the role of one region in Bengal, that of Katwa in the spread of Vaishnavism in the sixteenth century.
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