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The major concern of the essays in this book is to trace the emancipating values induced through the recognition of multiple perspectives as opposed to the socially maintained hegemonil standpoints. Each essay although starting off from various cultural locales and theoretical positions-whether it is about autobiography or painting-attempts for the most a rediscovery of woman’s history and culture, particularly in the case of non-European communities that have ...
Tradition and Terrain is an attempt to map out the emergence of an aesthetic awareness in terms of the land, region and creative consciousness. The essays trace the presence of adbhuta rasa as an the aesthic of wonder, formulate a critique of ceremony, and reach beyond the phenomenal into the innermost possibilities of ecological wisdom and alter/native discourses, even while reconstructing a poetics of bhakti in the context of India tradition. Although written ...
There are certainly several critical works available which deal with the poetics/aesthetic theories of Sri Aurobindo. In The Mantra of Vision – An Overview of Sri Aurobindo’s Aesthetics, the author has taken a holistic attitude and stresses on the two aspects of Sri Aurobindo’s darsana – the Mantra and Vision – and centralises on his spiritual aesthetics. The first chapter examines the premises of Sri Aurobindo’s aesthetics and is concerned mainly ...
South Indian Studies presents thirteen essays discussing in close detail topics that range from the cultural significance of the coconut to the treatment of nature in Akam poetics, from matriliny to Yakshagana, from Hindu Astronomy to Buddhist Art, from the role of the village to the public library systems, and from St. Thomas to C.P. Ramaswamy Aiyar. These essays of interdisciplinary nature by diverse hands find common ground and concern in focusing for the most ...