To Savor the Meaning: The Theology of Literary Emotions in Medieval Kashmir
To Savor the Meaning examines the overlap of literary theory and religious philosophy in Medieval Kashmir. It explores an influential chapter in South Asian intellectual history in which this overlap between aesthetics and religious ideas became particularly pronounced and looks at the debates over...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford
Oxford University Press USA- OSO
2021
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| In: | Year: 2021 |
| Series/Journal: | South Asia Research Ser.
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Anandawardhana
/ Abhinavagupta 950-1020
/ Mahimabhaṭṭa ca. 11./12. Jh.
/ Poetics
/ Philosophy
/ Religion
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| Further subjects: | B
Sanskrit poetry
History and criticism
B Dhvani (Poetics) B Poets, Sanskrit (India) (Jammu and Kashmir) B Ānandavardhana-active 9th century B Abhinavagupta Rājānaka B Religion Philosophy B Ānandavardhana (active 9th century) B Kashmir Śaivism (India) (Jammu and Kashmir) History To 1500 B Religion and literature (India) (Jammu and Kashmir) B Electronic books B Mahimabhaṭṭa (active 11th century) B Emotions in literature |
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| Summary: | To Savor the Meaning examines the overlap of literary theory and religious philosophy in Medieval Kashmir. It explores an influential chapter in South Asian intellectual history in which this overlap between aesthetics and religious ideas became particularly pronounced and looks at the debates over how to understand literature through the lens of the wider network of religious assumptions and commitments in which they are embedded. cover -- Half title -- Series -- To Savor the Meaning -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I -- 1. Ānandavardhana and the Metaphysics of Literature -- 2. Abhinavagupta's Theology -- 3. Abhinavagupta's Literary Theory -- part II -- 4. Mahimabhaṭṭa on Literary Knowing -- 5. The Will of Objects -- 6. Mahimabhaṭṭa on Literary Being: The Pragmatic Use of Illusion -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index. "Medieval Kashmir in its golden age saw the development of some of the most sophisticated theories of language, literature, and emotion articulated in the pre-modern world. These theories, enormously influential on the later intellectual history of South Asia, were written at a time when religious education was ubiquitous among intellectuals, and when religious philosophies were hotly and publicly debated. It was also a time of deep interreligious influence and borrowing, when traditions intermixed and intellectuals pushed the boundaries of their own inheritance by borrowing ideas from many different places-even from their rivals. To Savor the Meaning examines the overlap of literary theory and religious philosophy in this period by looking at debates about how poetry communicates emotions to its readers, what it is readers do when they savor these emotions, and why this might be valuable. Focusing on the work of three influential figures--Ānandavardhana [ca. 850 AD], Abhinavagupta [ca. 1000 AD], and the somewhat lesser known theorist Mahimabhaṭṭa [ca. 1050 AD]--this book gives a broad introduction to their ideas and reveals new, important, and previously overlooked aspects of their work and their debates, placing them within the wider context of the religious philosophies current in Kashmir at the time, and showing that their ideas cannot be fully understood in isolation from this broader context"-- |
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| ISBN: | 0197544851 |