More than real [electronic resource] : a history of the imagination in south India / David Shulman.
Shulman, David Dean, 1949-
2012
BF408 .S4518 2012eb
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More than real [electronic resource] : a history of the imagination in south India / David Shulman.
Author
Shulman, David Dean, 1949-
ISBN
9780674065123 electronic book
0674059913
9780674059917
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Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2012.
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English
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1 online resource (xi, 333 p.)
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BF408 .S4518 2012eb
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153.30954
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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 Bhavana
7. Simantini: Irrevocable Imaginings
8. Nala in Tenkasi and the New Economy of Mind
9. True Fiction
10. The Marriage of Bhavana and Best.

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