Devotional Poetics and the Indian Sublime

by Vijay Mishra

Book Overview

The last two decades of the twentieth century have been marked by an immense revival of interest in the sublime. The sublime has been periodized (and "trans-periodized"), gendered, politicized, and even made into a commodity with specific social and economic effects. Yet past studies have used Western texts as their archives. This book dramatically shifts the focus by examining a major instance of a non-Western sublime: the Hindu Brahman.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791438716
• ISBN13: 9780791438718
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.