Devotional poetics and the Indian sublime
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Author
Publication
1998 - State University of New York Press, Albany, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
81,000 words, Guess
Page Count
324 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL362641M
- ISBN-100791438716
- OCLC Control Number44960022
- OCLC Control Number123278841
- OCLC Control Number39024780
and 4 more
- Library of Congress Control Number98022842
- LibraryThing8754863
- WikidataQ48948836
- Goodreads1461211
Classifications
- DDC111/.85/0954
- LCCBL1236.38 .M56 1998
Description
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 a non-Western sublime: the Hindu 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 sublimes. The book is the first to offer a comprehensive theory of both the Indian sublime and Indian devotional verse.
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Series Statement
- SUNY series on the sublime
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