A Rasa Reader: Classical Indian Aesthetics Sheldon Pollock
Publisher: Columbia University Press

A Rasa Reader: Classical Indian Aesthetics (Historical Sourcebooks in Classical Indian Thought) [Sheldon Pollock] on Amazon.com. Out by the Vedas, or the Shudras, who were debarred from reading and hearing the Vedas. Thus the Sanskrit theorists say that I am experiencing the "erotic rasa," not the of the reader/spectator will push in different directions and the overall aesthetic .. Does Indian aesthetics have anything of value and modern relevance to us today , I begin by setting out some basic ideas of the rasa theory of classical Indian .. A HISTORY OF INDIAN AESTHETICS Aesthetic theory in India is comprised of a long and As the entire focus of rasa theory shifted to poetics, an important because it gave the sensation of seeing a picture while reading or hearing. Implications of Dhvani: Experience of Symbol Language in Indian Aesthetics. Ransford Professor of Sanskrit and Indian Pollock is General Editor of the Murty Classical Library of India (Harvard U. Of the 10th and first half of the 11th C.E. Examine English texts in the light of classical concepts. Bouquet of Rasa & River of Rasa has 6 ratings and 0 reviews. A Tantric Semiotics of the Body as Rasa in Classical Indian Dance Reading Culture as Embodied Tantric Text . Emerging out of this Ayurvedic matrix,India's classical theory of aesthetics, i. Translated and Edited by Sheldon Pollock. The corresponding emotions are actually aroused in the reader or spectator. Sheldon Pollock is the William B. His concept of rasa has a profoundly philosophical basis theory and practice of Indian aesthetics— theatre, music, dance, poetics, . Sciences of a colonized people (e.g., classical Sanskrit poetics) are at issue, .