TY - BOOK AU - Shulman,David TI - More Than Real: A History of the Imagination in South India SN - 9780674065123 AV - BF408 U1 - 153.30954 PY - 2012/// CY - Cambridge PB - Harvard University Press KW - Imagination-History KW - Culture diffusion-India-History KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3301127 ER -