Devotional Poetics and the Indian Sublime-Vijay Mishra-DKPD-9788124601563
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| The last two decades
of the twentieth century have been marked by an immense revival of interest
in the sublime, yet past studies have used Western texts as their archives.
This book dramatically shifts the focus by examining a major instance of an
Indian sublime: the Brahman. Mishra examines European theories of the
sublime, reads them off against contemporary critical uses of the term
(notably by Lyotard and Paul de Man) and proposes that the Hindu Brahman
constitutes an instance of one of the most fully developed of all
comprehensive theory of both the Indian sublime and Indian devotional verse.
“The book offers a highly original interpretation of one fundamental problem
in Indian cultural history: how does a devotee establish a relationship with
God (Brahman) when God is ultimately incapable of representation? Mishra
brilliantly exposes this problem by introducing the theme of the sublime and
shows how the problem has been confronted across a range of central Hindu
texts covering a large panorama of historical time and several Indic
languages.” |
| Book |
| ISBN |
9788124601563
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| PUBLISHER |
DKPD |
| Binding |
HARDCOVER |
| Edition |
2000 |
| Language |
ENGLISH |
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