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section 1. Issues in focus -- section 2. World thought systems : some instances -- section 3. Indian modernity : some instances.
‘Literature begins. . . in lexically meaningless sounds and comes into being as lyric. . . The primacy of lyric in the emergence of literature confirms its role as the originative or foundation genre. . . explains why that genre is especially important to consideration of literary rupture, endurance and renovation’—Earl Miner. With this bold bid for the primacy of lyric, Miner inaugurates an unusual volume which traverses the globe in its study of this ...