"Of many heroes" : an Indian essay in literary historiography /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Devy, G. N.
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: Hydarabad: Orient, 2017.
Edition:2nd ed.
Subjects:
Indic literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism. > 18.07 English literature outside Europe and the USA. > Literature and history -- India -- History -- 20th century. > Indic literature. Literature and history. > India. Engels. Letterkunde.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Some Indian questions
  • 2. History and literary history
  • 3. Time and territory
  • 4. Two paradigms of history
  • 5. Bhartrihari's metaphors
  • 6. The conventions of literary history
  • 7. Jnanadeva's agenda
  • 8. Pre-colonial historiography
  • 9. Warton's imaginative savages
  • 10. Jones and the Gentoos
  • 11. Formation and transformation of a canon
  • 12. Some Western approaches to literary history
  • 13. Post-colonial Indian approaches
  • 14. Para-literature
  • 15. Swa & Para: self & the other
  • 16. Tradition and transactions
  • 17. Translation as origin
  • 18. The course and the discourse of history
  • 19. Nation in narration
  • 20. The garden and the forest.

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