This course introduces students to the study of aesthetics,
or the relationship between art, beauty and taste. The second in a two-part
paper, this course deals with an array
of Indian thinkers on aesthetics and also introduces contemporary scholarship
on Indian aesthetics. Students are expected to develop the competence to read
and understand philosophical texts and equally importantly apply their
understanding deriving from such readings in the actual circumstances of
dealing with art and the aesthetic experience in their everyday life. The
course has arranged these texts in the form of a debate spanning across many
cultures and centuries. Therefore, it is important for the student to perceive
the continuities and discontinuities in thinking about aesthetics that are
apparent in the two traditions that are being examined here.
- Unit 5: Indian Aesthetics
- Bharatamuni,
On natya and rasa, from Natyashastra
- Dandin,
Sarga Bandha, Epic Poetry, from Kavyadarsha
- Anandavardhana,
Dhvani, The Structure of Poetic Meaning, from Dhvanyaloka
- Kuntaka,
Language of poetry and Metaphor from Vakrokti Jivita
- Abhinavagupta,
On Shanta rasa Aesthetic Equipoise from Abhinavabharati
- Amir
Khusrau Multilingual Literary Culture, From Nuh Siphir
- Unit 6: Indian Aesthetics
Reconsidered
- Raniero
Gnoli On some expressions used in Indian Aesthetics
- K Krishnamoorthy Sanskrit
Poetics: An Overview in “Indian Literary Criticism” G N Devy (Ed)
- V. K. Chari, The Genre Theory
in Sanskrit Poetics in “Literary India Comparative Studies in
Aesthetics, Colonialism, and Culture” by Hogan and Pandit (Eds)
- Pravas
Jivan Chaudhury The Theory of Rasa
- Richard
Schechner Rasaesthetics
- Vidya
Niwas Misra Sanskrit Rhetoric and Poetic
- Kathleen
Marie Higgins An Alchemy of Emotion: Rasa and Aesthetic Breakthroughs
- V.
K. Chari The Indian Theory of Suggestion (dhvani)
- Franklin
Edgerton Indirect Suggestion in Poetry: A Hindu Theory of Literary
Æsthetics
- Unit 7: Comparative
Aesthetics
- Ananda
Coomaraswamy, The Christian and Oriental, or the True philosophy of
Art in “Christian and Oriental Philosophy
of Art”
- Eliot
Deutsch, Reflections on Some Aspects of the Theory of Rasa, Studies in Comparative Aesthetics
- Roshni
Rustomji "Rasa" And "Dhvani" In Indian and Western
Poetics and Poetry
- Edwin
Gerow, Rasa and Katharsis: A Comparative Study, Aided by Several Films
- Chantal Maillard, The Aesthetic Pleasure
of Tragedy in Western and Indian Thought, in “The Pursuit of Comparative
Aesthetics”
just ran into your blog while searching for something in aesthetics and am completely confused as to what is the aim of your blog. to inform people about courses across the world or what? to guide them with admissions? if yes, what universities offer them? where are the details?
ReplyDeleteIt began with the aim of getting people to dump their curricula in one place. That way, it would help people devising new curricula to look up for examples and models. Would love to resuscitate it at some point, with help from like minded people.
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