More than real : a history of the imagination in south India /

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From the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, the major cultures of southern India underwent a revolution in sensibility reminiscent of what had occurred in Renaissance Italy. During this time, the imagination came to be recognized as the defining feature of human beings. More than Real draws our...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Shulman, David Dean, 1949-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012.
Subjects:
Imagination > History.
Culture diffusion > India > History.
Diffusion culturelle > Inde > Histoire.
PSYCHOLOGY > Cognitive Psychology.
SCIENCE > Cognitive Science.
HISTORY > Modern > General.
Culture diffusion.
Imagination.
India.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Theorizing Imagination
  • 1. Mind-Born Worlds
  • 2. Poets, Playwrights, Painters
  • 3. Singularity, Inexhaustibility, Insight: What Sanskrit Poeticians Think Is Real
  • 4. Poetics 2: Illumination
  • 5. Toward a Yoga of the Imagination
  • Part II. The Sixteenth-Century Revolution
  • 6. Early Modern Bhavana
  • 7. Simantini: Irrevocable Imaginings
  • 8. Nala in Tenkasi and the New Economy of Mind
  • 9. True Fiction
  • 10. The Marriage of Bhavana and Best.

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