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Devotional poetics and the Indian sublime / Vijay Mishra.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: SUNY series on the sublimePublication details: Albany : State University of New York Press, 1998.Description: 1 online resource (x, 324 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585059527
  • 9780585059525
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Devotional poetics and the Indian sublime.DDC classification:
  • 111/.85/0954 21
LOC classification:
  • BL1236.38 .M56 1998eb
Online resources:
Contents:
1. The Sublime Object of Devotion 1 -- 2. Two Truths Are Told: Prologues to the Swelling Act 43 -- 3. Devotional Poetics 81 -- 4. Temples of Fire: Plurality-with-Unity 129 -- 5. Desiring Selves, Undesirable Worlds 163 -- Conclusion: The Devotional Sublime 199.
Review: "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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. The Sublime Object of Devotion 1 -- 2. Two Truths Are Told: Prologues to the Swelling Act 43 -- 3. Devotional Poetics 81 -- 4. Temples of Fire: Plurality-with-Unity 129 -- 5. Desiring Selves, Undesirable Worlds 163 -- Conclusion: The Devotional Sublime 199.

Print version record.

"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.

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