Explorations in Aesthetics
Contents: Preface. 1. Aesthetic value in Indian thought/Kapil Kapoor. 2. Indian and western aesthetic thinking: a comparative study/Shrawan K. Sharma. 3. Art, aesthetics and Rasa/A.K. Awasthi. 4. Indian poetics and Shakespearean tragedy/Anju Bala Agrawal. 5. An aesthetic viewpoint: a study of Nathaniel Hawthorne\'s fictional art/Alka Rastogi. 6. A feminist reading of Arundhati Roy\'s The God of Small Things/M.L. Garg. 7. Poetics of drama and Indian modern playwrights: a footnote/Sunita Siroha. 8. The aesthetics of mental transformation: a study of Tagore\'s views on the subconscious interiority of the process of poetic creation/P.K. Kush. 9. Auchitya in eastern and western aestheticism/Amita Aggarwal. 10. A psycho-analytical critique of the aesthetic thinking in context of the matrix of suppression and sublimation in feminist fiction with reference to the novels of Shashi Deshpande and Margaret Atwood/Been Agarwal. 11. Coleridge on beauty and taste: a critical study/Savita Varshney. 12. An exploration of rasas in Kamala Das\'s My Story/Ajay Kumar Sharma. 13. R.B. Patankar\'s views on aesthetics finding the real significance in the content of a literary work/Harbir Singh Randhawa. 14. Indian aesthetic thinking and the west/Vijay Kumar Roy. 15. A comparative stylistic study of the selected novels of Mulk Raj Anand, R.K. Narayan and Raja Rao/S.S. Rehal. 16. Resanubhuti in cry, the peacock/Medha Sachdev. 17. The Mayor of casterbridge: a study in Carnivalesque/Ajay Sharma. 18. A study of Keats the eve of St. Agnes in the light of Indian theory of Rasa/Ruby Rastogi. 19. Psycho-analytical approach in David Herbert Lawrence\'s Sons and lovers/Sakshi Tyagi. 20. The blues aesthetic in Toni Morrison\'s The Bluest Eye/Suman Lata, Arvind Kumar Sharma. 21. Wordsworth and Pant on imagination: a comparative study/Mango Rani. 22. Feminism in Jane Austen\'s novel Pride and Prejudice/Ankita Jain and Alka Rastogi. 23. Abhinava Gupta\'s theory of the constituents of aesthetic personality/Rani Tiwari. 24. The novelist as aesthetician: Shashi Deshpande\'s fictional concerns/Jyotsna Prabahakar. 25. Role of Marxism theory in emphasizing aesthetic value of the white tiger/Poonam Swami. 26. Quest for feminine identity in Manju Kapur\'s novel Home/Ram Sharma. 27. Aesthetism as a manifestation of personality in the writings of Oscar wide with particular reference to his novel the picture of Dorian Gray/Mrinalini Anant and Alka Rastogi. 28. A study of Manohar Malgonkar\'s The princes: a feminist view point/Roohina Anees. 29. Narayan\'s The man-eater of Malgudi and the rasa theory/Kshama Gupta. 30. Aestheticism and value in Sarojini Naidu\'s poetry/Mamta Srivastava. 31. An eco-feminist reading of Anita Desai\'s Where shall we go this summer/Neeta. 32. Feminism in Shashi Deshpande\'s novel The long silence/Punam Pandit. 33. Karun Rasa in Shakespeare\'s Othello/Manjusha Kaushik. 34. Effect of racism in Arun Joshi\'s The Foreigner/Aparna Sharma. 35. Aesthetic beauty of imagery in the novels of Anita Desai/Geeta Gupta. Index.
The book entitled Explorations in Aesthetics is a rare book on aesthetics. There has been a marked awareness in the recent decades. The writers, critics linguistics, philosophers and stylisticians all have become conscious of the creative use of language of literature. To them style and formal features are important aspects for making an analysis and of working out of the meaning of a piece of literature.
This book deals with a broad spectrum of aesthetics - both Indian and western This book will offer a platform for the scholars to comprehend the complexity of Indian and western aesthetics. The broad spectrum of topics covered in this book will expose to the Indian scholars the Indian and western heritage, thus opening up opportunities for fresh thought processes leading to newer avenues of research. (jacket)
The book entitled Explorations in Aesthetics is a rare book on aesthetics. There has been a marked awareness in the recent decades. The writers, critics linguistics, philosophers and stylisticians all have become conscious of the creative use of language of literature. To them style and formal features are important aspects for making an analysis and of working out of the meaning of a piece of literature.
This book deals with a broad spectrum of aesthetics - both Indian and western This book will offer a platform for the scholars to comprehend the complexity of Indian and western aesthetics. The broad spectrum of topics covered in this book will expose to the Indian scholars the Indian and western heritage, thus opening up opportunities for fresh thought processes leading to newer avenues of research. (jacket)
