TY - BOOK AU - Singh, Avadhesh kumar TI - Revisiting literature, criticism and aesthetics in India SN - 8124606277 U1 - 891.4 PY - 2012/// CY - New Delhi PB - D.K.Printworld (P.) Ltd. N1 - CONTENTS Acknowledgement v LEAD IN : Negotiating Little Questions 1 PART I: WORD, WORLD AND PERCEPTION 1. Word and Beyond: Questions of Meaning 17 and Interpretation 2.Theory of Creative Process in Narratives about43 the Ramayana and the Mahabharata : Mythic Narrative as a Mode of Constituting Knowledge 3.Aesthetics, Ethics and Indian Culture 57 PART II: COLONIALISM AND AFTER 4. India Self-(re)fashioning and Colonialism: 101 Resistance and Polyvalence in the Nineteenth- Century Gujarati and Hindi Renaissance Prose Writings 5.Ornament or Blessing or Both: The Other 151 in Colonial Paradigms with Reference to India 6.Theorizing/Narrating Resistance and 173 Colonization in India 7.Knowledge, Globalization and Third World: 241 An Indian Contextual Discourse 8.Towards a New Framework of Literary Studies 269 in Post-Colonial India PART III: LITERATURE AND THEORIZING IN INDIA 9.In Their Own Words and Worlds: Women Saint295 Poets and their Poetry 10.Self or Motherhood: Feminist Discourse in India343 11.Constructing an Indian theory of Feminism: 361 Problems and Potentialities 12.Towards an Indian Theory of Post-colonialism 387 PART IV: CRITICISM AND INDIA 13.Continuity and Change in Indian Critical 407 Tradition 14.Rethinking Literary Theory in India .439 15.Postmodernism in India 475 16.Towards Compoetics in India: Alternative 491 Frameworks of Comparative Study of Poetics LEAD OUT : Interliterariness and Contactuality511 in India Appendix A : Select List of Compositions in Sanskrit 525 in the Post-Jagannatha Period Appendix B : Select List of Texts in Sanskrit in the 538 Post-Jagannatha Period Appendix C : List of the Texts on Indian Poetics 542 in the Post-jagannatha Period Appendix D : Select List of Works in Hindi 547 on Indian Poetics in the Twentieth Century Bibliography 549 Index 575 ER -