Gujarati Tunki Vartama Pariveshni Karyasadhakta
Coverpage of the book | |
Author | Rajesh Vankar |
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Cover artist | Ketan Rajyaguru |
Country | India |
Language | Gujarati |
Subject | Literary criticism of Short story |
Set in | Godhra, Gujarat |
Published | 2012 |
Publisher | self published |
Media type | |
Pages | 512 |
Awards |
Best Book Prize (for research) |
ISBN | 978-93-81471-24-1 |
Gujarati Tunki Vartama Pariveshni Karyasadhakta (Gujarati: ગુજરાતી ટૂંકી વાર્તામાં પરિવેશની કાર્યસાધકતા) (English: The Function of Setting in Gujarati Short Stories) is a Research work on Gujarati short stories in Gujarati language done by Rajesh Vankar for his Ph.D digree. The book gives extensive discripetion about the works of Setting as an element in a Short story, especilly in Gujarati short stories. The book won Best Book Prize (for research) (2012) instituted by Gujarat Sahitya Akademi.[1]
Background
Vankar started this research work in 2005 to obtaining his Ph.D and completed in 2010. The research work was published in a book formate in 2012 by the financial assistance of Gujarat Sahitya Akademi. The preface of the book have been written by Manilal H. Patel, a Gujarati author.[1]
Synopsis
The book is devided in four chapters.
The first chapter, Parivesh: Sangya Ane Suchitartho (Setting: Defination and Meanings), contains the discussion about the defination and meanings of Parivesh (Setting) in Indian and World literature. The second chapter, Sahitya Vivechan Kshetre Parivesh Vicharnanu Swarup (Various Concepts of Setting in The Field of Literary Criticism), describes how the Parivesh criticised by an Indian critics as well as World's critics. The third chapter, Gujarati Tunki Vartama Pariveshni Karyasadhakta (The Function of Setting in Gujarati Short Stories), is devided into other four parts which gives extensive discripetion about the works of Parivesh in the traditional, modern and postmodern Gujarati short stories in the contex of Rural setting, Urban setting, Social setting, Backwards area setting, Cultural setting, Historical setting, Mythological setting, Psychic setting, Scientific setting and Dilectual setting. The fourth and last chapter is contains the study about selected 10 Short stories written by Gujarati writers including Dhumketu, Sundaram, Jayant Khatri, Suresh Joshi, Kishor Jhadav, Madhu Rye, Shirish Panchal, Mohan Parmar, Nazir Mansuri and Dasharath Parmar.[2]
Awards
The book won Best Book Prize (for research) of 2012 instituted by Gujarat Sahitya Akademi.[1]
References
- 1 2 3 Parmar, Manoj, ed. (December 2014). "Parichay: Dr. Rajesh Vankar". Dalitchetna (Gandhinagar). ISSN 2319-7862.
- ↑ Vankar, Rajesh (2012). Gujarati Tunki Vartama Pariveshni Karyasadhakta. Godhra. ISBN 978-93-81471-24-1.