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Devotional poetics and the Indian sublime /

"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mishra, Vijay
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, 1998.
Colección:SUNY series on the sublime.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"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."--Jacket
Descripción Física:1 online resource (x, 324 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:0585059527
9780585059525
1438413297
9781438413297