More than Real : : A History of the Imagination in South India / / David Shulman.
From the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, the major cultures of southern India underwent a revolution in sensibility reminiscent of what had occurred in Renaissance Italy. During this time, the imagination came to be recognized as the defining feature of human beings. More than Real draws our...
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| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 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