Beyond East and West: A Story of Civilization Through the Great Epics

ISBN-13: 9780367730475 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 294 str.

Suchethana Swaroop

Opis

This volume is a cross-cultural study of the evolution of civilization. Drawing its material and inspiration from literature and culture, it looks at the entire life and achievement of mankind as a single imaginative experience. The book examines how traditions of poetry and literature have shaped civilizations.

Spis treści

1. Not an Introduction 2. Virgil: The Ideal Poet 3. Dante: An Unveiling of Europe 4. The Unprecedented Pair 5. On Milton 6. Pṛthivyā iva Mānadanḍaḥ 7. The Ideal Character 8. The Epic Tradition and Milton 9. The Culture that Speaks 10. Changing Cultures and Living Traditions 11. To Homer Again 12. The First Epic 13. Kalidasa’s Prayer 14. Translations and Versions 15. Breaking and Making Tradition 16. The Modernists 17. The Final Shape 18. Kālasya niscayah 19. The Sublimity of Kalidasa 20. "Play on, pressing to the bosom!" 21. Beyond East and West 22. Towards New Beginnings

O autorze

Suchethana Swaroop is the Chief Information Commissioner, Karnataka Information Commission, Bengaluru, India. He has previously taught media and communications and served as Director, Educational Multimedia Research Centre, at the University of Mysore, India.

N. S. Raghavan (the translator) holds a doctorate in literature from the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India, and has taught English language and literature for over three decades.