Indic & South Asian Literature - Literary Criticism, General & Miscellaneous Hinduism, General & Miscellaneous Political Biography, General & Miscellaneous Asian Poetry - Literary Criticism
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Overview
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.Editorials
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Mishra (English, U. of Alberta) contributes to the current interest in the sublime by looking at a major example of a non- western version. He examines European theories of the sublime, reads them off against contemporary critical uses of the term by such writers as Loytard and Paul de Man, and proposes that the Hindu Brahman constitutes one of the most developed. His topics include the sublime object of devotion, plurality-with-unity, and desiring selves-undesirable worlds. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.Book Details
Published
September 30, 2009
Publisher
State University of New York Press
ISBN
9781438413297