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To savor the meaning : the theology of literary emotions in medieval Kashmir. /

Title: To savor the meaning : the theology of literary emotions in medieval Kashmir. / James D. Reich.
Author: Reich, James D.
Publication: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]

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viii, 271 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Summary

"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"--

Series Statement

South Asia research

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Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Anandavardhana and the metaphysics of literature -- Abhinavagupta and the theology of literature -- Abhinavagupta's literary theory -- Mahimabhaṭṭa on literary knowing -- The will of objects -- Mahimabhaṭṭa on literary being : the pragmatic use of illusion.

ISBN

9780197544839
0197544835
9780197544853 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2020056489

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Princeton University Library