More Than Real : A History of the Imagination in South India.
Shulman, David.
More Than Real : A History of the Imagination in South India. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (349 pages)
Intro -- 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 Bhāvanā -- 7. Sīmantinī: Irrevocable Imaginings -- 8. Nala in Tenkasi and the New Economy of Mind -- 9. True Fiction -- 10. The Marriage of Bhāvanā and Best -- 11. Toward Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
From the late fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, the imagination came to be recognized in South Indian culture as the defining feature of human beings. Shulman elucidates the distinctiveness of South Indian theories of the imagination and shows how they differ radically from Western notions of reality and models of the mind.
9780674065123
Imagination-History.
Culture diffusion-India-History.
Electronic books.
BF408
153.30954
More Than Real : A History of the Imagination in South India. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (349 pages)
Intro -- 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 Bhāvanā -- 7. Sīmantinī: Irrevocable Imaginings -- 8. Nala in Tenkasi and the New Economy of Mind -- 9. True Fiction -- 10. The Marriage of Bhāvanā and Best -- 11. Toward Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
From the late fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, the imagination came to be recognized in South Indian culture as the defining feature of human beings. Shulman elucidates the distinctiveness of South Indian theories of the imagination and shows how they differ radically from Western notions of reality and models of the mind.
9780674065123
Imagination-History.
Culture diffusion-India-History.
Electronic books.
BF408
153.30954