Literary India: Comparative Studies in Aesthetics, Colonialism, and CulturePatrick Colm Hogan, Lalita Pandit SUNY Press, 01.01.1995 - 289 Seiten This anthology explores the possibilities of a non-Eurocentric comparative literature. Contributors explain and analyze a variety of material from the Indian literary tradition, examining both its indigenous development and its relations with the West. In doing this, they draw upon and develop ideas from cultural criticism, literary theory, linguistics, and Indology. This book begins with an examination of Indian and Western views on basic concerns of literary theory and aesthetics: authorship, genre, and literary language. Specific works of Indian literature are discussed, as are the striking similarities between eighth-century Sanskrit romances and Shakespeare's late plays; the indirect links of Asian folk and popular dramatic traditions with Bertolt Brecht's epic theater; the oppositional parallelism that marks Kipling's Kim and Tagore's Gora; the suggestive variations on the theme of exile in contemporary Indian cinema and Sophocles' Theban plays. The book ends with a re-consideration of post-colonial theory drawing on both Indian and European sources. |
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The Bias | 1 |
Theorizing Cultural Difference and CrossCultural | 45 |
The Genre Theory in Sanskrit Poetics | 63 |
Language as | 81 |
Interpreting Cultural Difference and CrossCultural | 101 |
Rays Devi | 135 |
The Poetics of Exile and the Politics of Home | 141 |
Anita Desai | 153 |
Translating Indian Literary Texts into English | 175 |
Nautanki and the Struggle for Independence National | 189 |
History and Dialectic | 207 |
Theorizing Colonial Contact Hybrid Identities | 235 |
Culture State and the Rediscovery of Indian Politics | 255 |
Notes on Contributors | 275 |
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