Devotional Poetics and the Indian SublimeSUNY Press, 6 Ağu 1998 - 268 sayfa The last two decades of the twentieth century have been marked by an immense revival of interest in the sublime. The sublime has been periodized (and “trans-periodized”), gendered, politicized, and even made into a commodity with specific social and economic effects. 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. Devotional Poetics and the Indian Sublime 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. Mishra argues that the negative aesthetics of Brahman (and the largely decentered rhetoric of Hinduism generally) is part of this massive culture’s use of the category of the sublime (and not the beautiful) to speak about a moment when the mind is confronted with an idea too large to be presented to consciousness. The book then examines the case of one of India’s dominant literary genres—devotional verse—to show that once the category of the sublime is grasped (or seen as the undertheorized category of Indian aesthetics), it soon becomes clear that this massive genre is also predicated upon Brahman, the Absolute, as the sublime object of (impossible) desire. It is the first book to offer a comprehensive theory of both the Indian sublime and Indian devotional verse. |
İçindekiler
Prologues to the Swelling Act | 43 |
Devotional Poetics | 81 |
PluralitywithUnity | 129 |
Desiring Selves Undesirable Worlds | 163 |
The Devotional Sublime | 199 |
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Diğer baskılar - Tümünü görüntüle
Devotional Poetics and the Indian Sublime: Lacan's Return to Freud Vijay Mishra Sınırlı önizleme - 1998 |
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Absolute action acts aesthetic Alberuni Allahabad argument Arjuna Atman Bhagavadgītā Bhāgavata bhakti bhāṣā Bhishma Brahman burning bride chapter Charlotte Vaudeville concept context critical Delhi desire devotional poetics devotional verse devotionalism dharma discourse divine Dvivedi emotional epic erotic genre Gitagovinda Gorakhnath Hegel Hindi Hindu Hinduism Ibnul idea ideology Indian culture Indian sublime infra reader Islam Kabir kāma karma Krishna language linked literary literature London Mahābhārata man-in-the-world Maya meaning meditation metaphors metaphysical mind moksha Motilal Banarsidass mystical Namdev Narada narrative nature nivṛtti Oxford University Press pada philosophy poem poet poetry Prakāśan prakṛti pravṛtti principle Purāṇa purușa radical rasa reading reference relationship religion religious renouncer renunciation ritual S. N. Dasgupta sabda sākhī samādhi Sankhya Sanskrit semantic sense sexual Shiva social śṛngāra śruti structure sublime sublime object Sufi Sufism sūtras symbolic Tantric theory tion tradition trans translation Tulsidas union unpresentable viraha Wahdat al-Wujud word Yoga Zaehner