00000nam a22000008i 4500 20260913094741.0 260919s2010 ii o 00 0 eng d 9789350181201 Poetics: East and West New Delhi Readworthy Press Corporation 2010. 1 online resource Post-modern literary theories have sparked a great interest in academic world in recent years. These ideas seem particularly powerful in a self-consciously post colonial society like India. This book reflects the legacy of India critical theories and poetic tradition in terms of its similarity in approach to some of the prominent western literary theories. It deals with the concept of poetic language, its nature and definition as interpreted by two major theories of Sanskrit criticism—the Dhvani and the Vakrokti—and two western theories—the new criticism and the Russian Formalism. It studies the Indian and the western theories independently and enquires whatever there are points of convergence between them. Poetics. Sanskrit poetry--History and criticism. Poetry--History and criticism. LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry bisacsh https://book.shhalaj.com/9789350181201