Beyond East and West : a story of civilization through the great epics /
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 achievements of humankind as a single imaginative experience. The book examines how traditions of poetry and literature have shaped cultures, soci...
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2019.
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Table of Contents:
- Not an introduction
- Virgil: the ideal poet
- Dante: an unveiling of Europe
- The unprecedented pair
- On Milton
- "Pṛthivyā iva Mānadaṇḍaḥ"
- The ideal character
- The epic tradition and Milton
- The culture that speaks
- Changing cultures and living traditions
- To Homer again
- The first epic
- Kalidasa's prayer
- Translations and versions
- Breaking and making tradition
- The modernists
- The final shape
- "Kālasya niścayaḥ"
- The sublimity of Kalidasa - "Play on, pressing to the bosom...!" - Beyond East and West - Towards a new beginning.