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

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  • James Peacock University of Edinburgh

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.2218/forum.01.546

Abstract

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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12-Dec-2008

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No. 01 (2005): Origins & Originality

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“Timeless and (Un)original : The Role of Gossip in R.K. Narayan’s The Man-Eater of Malgudi and The Painter of Signs”. 2008. FORUM: University of Edinburgh Postgraduate Journal of Culture & The Arts, no. 01 (December). https://doi.org/10.2218/forum.01.546.