The Dhvanyāloka of Ānandavardhana with the Locana of Abhinavagupta
Title | The Dhvanyāloka of Ānandavardhana with the Locana of Abhinavagupta PDF eBook |
Author | Ānandavardhana |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 854 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780674202788 |
For nearly a thousand years the brilliant analysis of aesthetic experience set forth in the Locana of Abhinavagupta, India's founding literary critic, has dominated traditional Indian theory on poetics and aesthetics. The Locana, presented here in English translation for the first time, is a commentary on the ninth-century Dhvanyaloka of Anandavardhana, which is itself the pivotal work in the history of Indian poetics. The Dhvanyaloka revolutionized Sanskrit literary theory by proposing that the main goal of good poetry is the evocation of a mood or "flavor" (rasa) and that this process can be explained only by recognizing a semantic power beyond denotation and metaphor, namely, the power of suggestion. On the basis of this analysis the Locana develops a theory of the psychology of aesthetic response. This edition is the first to make the two most influential works of traditional Sanskrit literary and aesthetic theory fully accessible to readers who want to know more about Sanskrit literature. The editorial annotations furnish the most complete exposition available of the history and content of these works. In addition, the verses presented as examples by both authors (offered here in verse translation) form an anthology of some of the finest Sanskrit and Prakrit poetry.
Dhvanyāloka of Ānandavardhana: Uddyota II
Title | Dhvanyāloka of Ānandavardhana: Uddyota II PDF eBook |
Author | Ānandavardhana |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1956 |
Genre | Aesthetics, Indic |
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Treatise, with classical commentary on Sanskrit poetics.
Abhinavagupta's Dhvanyaloka-locana, with an Anonymous Sanskrit Commentary
Title | Abhinavagupta's Dhvanyaloka-locana, with an Anonymous Sanskrit Commentary PDF eBook |
Author | Abhinavagupta |
Publisher | |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Aesthetics, Indic |
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On Interpretation
Title | On Interpretation PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick Colm Hogan |
Publisher | University of Georgia Press |
Pages | 266 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0820331902 |
On Interpretation challenges a number of entrenched assumptions about being and knowing that have long kept theorists debating at cross purposes. Patrick Colm Hogan first sets forth a theory of meaning and interpretation and then develops it in the context of the practices and goals of law, psychoanalysis, and literary criticism. In his preface, Hogan discusses developments in semantics and related fields that have occurred over the decade since the book first appeared.
The Mind and its Stories
Title | The Mind and its Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick Colm Hogan |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 319 |
Release | 2003-09-29 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 1139440705 |
There are profound, extensive, and surprising universals in literature, which are bound up with universals in emotion. Hogan maintains that debates over the cultural specificity of emotion are misdirected because they have ignored a vast body of data that bear directly on the way different cultures imagine and experience emotion - literature. This is the first empirically and cognitively based discussion of narrative universals. Professor Hogan argues that, to a remarkable degree, the stories people admire in different cultures follow a limited number of patterns and that these patterns are determined by cross-culturally constant ideas about emotion. In formulating his argument, Professor Hogan draws on his extensive reading in world literature, experimental research treating emotion and emotion concepts, and methodological principles from the contemporary linguistics and the philosophy of science. He concludes with a discussion of the relations among narrative, emotion concepts, and the biological and social components of emotion.
...Dhvanyaloka [Anandavardhanacaryaviracitah], Abhinavaguptapadaviracita Locana, sahitah stippana Prakasa hindivyakhyopetasca, hindivyakhyakara Jagannatha Pathaka
Title | ...Dhvanyaloka [Anandavardhanacaryaviracitah], Abhinavaguptapadaviracita Locana, sahitah stippana Prakasa hindivyakhyopetasca, hindivyakhyakara Jagannatha Pathaka PDF eBook |
Author | 9th cent Anandavardhana |
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Genre | Poetics |
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Rediscovering God with Transcendental Argument
Title | Rediscovering God with Transcendental Argument PDF eBook |
Author | David Peter Lawrence |
Publisher | State University of New York Press |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 2015-07-29 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1438410204 |
Rediscovering God with Transcendental Argument provides a comparative philosophical study of the Pratyabhijña system of the medieval Kashmiri Śaiva thinkers Utpaladeva and Abhinavagupta. Beginning with intensive descriptive and prescriptive reflections on the nature of philosophy itself, the book examines the special characteristics of the Pratyabhijña discourse as both philosophical apologetics and spiritual exercise. Lawrence situates the Pratyabhijña speculation within the larger context of Hindu and Buddhist deliberations about the role of interpretation in experience, and gives a groundbreaking exposition of the epistemology and ontology of Shiva's self-recognition. He observes the similarities and differences of the Pratyabhijña with Christian understandings of the divine logos, and argues that the Śaiva philosophy elucidates a cogent way of demonstrating the reality of God against contemporary relativism, deconstructionism and other forms of skepticism.