Author: G N Devy
Editor: G N Devy
Publisher: Orient Longman
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 430
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8125020225
Description
This volume provides easy access to some of the key concepts and ideas in the Indian tradition of literary theorizing. It brings together in one volume some of the most significant literary thinkers in the Indian tradition of the last two millennia.
Contemporary Indians seem to be afflicted by a sense of amnesia in relation to literary history. The affliction is more severe in the sphere of literary criticism, not only because older texts are generally unavailable, but also because modern India has lost touch with both the language and the ethos of the critical texts of ancient and medieval India.
Students of Indian literature need to have access to India's critical tradition. This volume takes a step towards providing it and giving teachers, students and scholar-in-the-making easy access to some of the key concepts and ideas in the Indian tradition of literary theorizing. In doing so, it brings together in one volume some of the most significant literary thinkers in the Indian tradition of the last two millennia.
Contents
Preface
PART I: Theory
BHARATAMUNI
On Natty and Rasa
THOLKAPPIYAR
On Diction and Syntax
BHARTHARI
On Syntax and Meaning
DANDIN
Sarga-bandha: Epic Poetry
ANANDAVARDHANA
Dhvani: Structure of Poetic Meaning
DHANANJAYA
Definitions and Descriptions in Drama
KUNTAKA
Language of Poetry and Metaphor
ABHINAVAGUPTA
On Santarasa: Aesthetic Equipoise
JNANESVARA
Invocations
AMIR KHUSRAU
Multilingual Literary Culture
RUPA GOSWAMI
The Bhaktirasa
KESHAVADASA
Kinds of Poetry and Defects of Poetry
AL-BADAONI
Excerpts from the Tawarikh
MIRZA ASADULLAH KHAN GHALIB
Poetry as Freedom
RABINDRANATH TAGORE
What is Art?
SRI AUROBINDO
The Sources of Poetry
The Essence of Poetry
BALKRISHNA SITARAM MARDHEKAR
Poetry and Aesthetic Theory
KRISHNA RAYAN
What is Literariness?
SURESH JOSHI
On Interpretation
BALACHANDRA NEMADE
The Marathi Novel
GAYATRI CHAKRAVORTY SPIVAK
A Literary Representation of the Subaltern
AIJAZ AHMAD
Orientalism and After
PART II: Interpretation
K KRISHNAMOORTHY
Sanskrit Poetics: An Overview
M HIRIYANNA
The Number of Rasa
A K RAMANUJAN
On Ancient Tamil Poetics
BIMAL KRISHNA MATILAL
Bhartrhari's View of Sphota
R B PATANKAR
Aesthetics: Some Important Problems
SUDHIR KAKAR
Cults and Myths of Krishna