Insights Into Literary Theory: Eastern and Western Perspectives

The poetics of literature has experienced and absorbed variety of revolutions in its chequered history from Plato to Derrida. But few of these revolutions have affected students of literature more abidingly than those discussed in this volume. Bharata and Aristotle, Kshemendra and Horace, and, Freud and Jung are still contemporary with us. We simply cannot do without them if we ever cared to be remembered by posterity for our understanding and enjoyment of literature. About The Author:- Ram Padarath Sharma, is Professor of English at the North-Eastern Hill University, Shilong. He has also taught at the University of Bihar, Muzaffarpur and the University of Sana’a, Sana’a, Republic of Yemen. Dr. Sharma is the author of I.A. Richards’ Theory of Language and Woman in Hindu Literature. Contents:- Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: PROFESSOR D THAKUR Rasa and Catharsis: Intersecting Theories of Aesthetic Pleasure Auchitya and Decorum: Parallel Developments in Poetics The Freudian Paradigm of Literature The Jungian Mystique of Literature Works Cited Index.