Author: Shekhar
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004645497
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Sanskrit Drama: Its Origin and Decline
Author: Shekhar
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004645497
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004645497
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Sanskrit Drama
Author: Indu Shekhar
Publisher: Brill Archive
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Publisher: Brill Archive
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The Sanskrit Drama in Its Origin, Development, Theory & Practice
Author: Arthur Berriedale Keith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sanskrit drama
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sanskrit drama
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
The Square and the Circle of the Indian Arts
Author: Kapila Vatsyayan
Publisher: Abhinav Publications
ISBN: 9788170173625
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
The Square and the Circle of the Indian Arts is a major contribution in Indian art history. More than a book on the theories of arts, it has far-reaching implications for the way one thinks about the future of indology and art history. It provides a model to be emulated for inter-disciplinary research, not only between the arts but also the sciences and the arts. The book begins by re-examining the imagery of the Vedas and the Upanisads, highlighting some aspects of early speculative thought which influenced the enunciation of aesthetic theories, particularly of Bharata in the Natyasastra. The next chapter introduces a new methodology of analyzing the rituals (yajna) as laid down in the Yajurveda and the Satapatha Brahmana, the best way to focus the relationship between the text and the practice. Four chapters follow – one each on drama (natya), architecture (vastu), sculpture (silpa), and music (sangita). Each presents some fundamental concepts of speculative thought, concerned with each of the arts and purposefully correlates these with actual examples both of the past and the present. The afterward to this second edition remains an event not only because the book benefits from the works published since the first edition, but also because it presents the author’s integral vision and her unique adventure into the boundaries of several disciplines. It demonstrates the efficacy of her earlier approach of investigating the imagery and the metaphors as basic to the discourse of the Indian tradition. She proposes a multi-layered cluster of concepts and metaphors which enable one to uncode the complex multi-dimensional character of the Indian Arts. Also significantly she suggests a deeper comprehension of the relevance of the developments in the field of traditional mathematics and biology for the study of the language of form of the Indian Arts.
Publisher: Abhinav Publications
ISBN: 9788170173625
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
The Square and the Circle of the Indian Arts is a major contribution in Indian art history. More than a book on the theories of arts, it has far-reaching implications for the way one thinks about the future of indology and art history. It provides a model to be emulated for inter-disciplinary research, not only between the arts but also the sciences and the arts. The book begins by re-examining the imagery of the Vedas and the Upanisads, highlighting some aspects of early speculative thought which influenced the enunciation of aesthetic theories, particularly of Bharata in the Natyasastra. The next chapter introduces a new methodology of analyzing the rituals (yajna) as laid down in the Yajurveda and the Satapatha Brahmana, the best way to focus the relationship between the text and the practice. Four chapters follow – one each on drama (natya), architecture (vastu), sculpture (silpa), and music (sangita). Each presents some fundamental concepts of speculative thought, concerned with each of the arts and purposefully correlates these with actual examples both of the past and the present. The afterward to this second edition remains an event not only because the book benefits from the works published since the first edition, but also because it presents the author’s integral vision and her unique adventure into the boundaries of several disciplines. It demonstrates the efficacy of her earlier approach of investigating the imagery and the metaphors as basic to the discourse of the Indian tradition. She proposes a multi-layered cluster of concepts and metaphors which enable one to uncode the complex multi-dimensional character of the Indian Arts. Also significantly she suggests a deeper comprehension of the relevance of the developments in the field of traditional mathematics and biology for the study of the language of form of the Indian Arts.
The Theatric Universe
Author: Kale Pramod
Publisher: Popular Prakashan
ISBN: 9788171541188
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Publisher: Popular Prakashan
ISBN: 9788171541188
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Select List of Recent Publications
Author: East-West Center. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : East and West
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : East and West
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Somatic Lessons
Author: Anthony Cerulli
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 1438443870
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Looks at narrative in the history of ayurvedic medical literature and the perspectives on illness and patienthood that emerge.
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 1438443870
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Looks at narrative in the history of ayurvedic medical literature and the perspectives on illness and patienthood that emerge.
Dattilam
Author: Emmie te Nijenhuis
Publisher: Brill Archive
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Publisher: Brill Archive
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Folk Theatres of North India
Author: Karan Singh
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000769720
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
This book examines folk theatres of North India as a unique performative structure, a counter stream to the postulations of Sanskrit and Western realistic theatre. In focusing on their historical, social and cultural imprints, it explores how these theatres challenge the linearity of cultural history and subvert cultural hegemony. The book looks at diverse forms of theatre such as svangs, nautanki, tamasha, all with conventions like open performative space, free mingling of spectators and actors, flexibility in roles and genres, etc. It discusses the genesis, history and the independent trajectory of folk theatres; folk theatre and Sanskrit dramaturgy; cinematic legacy; and theatrical space as performance besides investigating causes, inter-relations within socio-cultural factors, and the performance principles underlying them. It shows how these theatres effectively contest delimitation of human creative impulses (as revealed in classical Sanskrit theatre) from structuring as also of normative impulses of religion and culture, while amalgamating influences from Western theatre, newly-rising religious reform movements of 19th century India, tantra and Bhakti. It further highlights their ability to adapt and reinvent themselves in accordance with spatial and temporal transformations to constitute an important anthropological layer of Indian society. Comprehensive and empirically rich, this book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of cultural studies, theatre, film and performance studies, sociology, political studies, popular culture, and South Asian studies.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000769720
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
This book examines folk theatres of North India as a unique performative structure, a counter stream to the postulations of Sanskrit and Western realistic theatre. In focusing on their historical, social and cultural imprints, it explores how these theatres challenge the linearity of cultural history and subvert cultural hegemony. The book looks at diverse forms of theatre such as svangs, nautanki, tamasha, all with conventions like open performative space, free mingling of spectators and actors, flexibility in roles and genres, etc. It discusses the genesis, history and the independent trajectory of folk theatres; folk theatre and Sanskrit dramaturgy; cinematic legacy; and theatrical space as performance besides investigating causes, inter-relations within socio-cultural factors, and the performance principles underlying them. It shows how these theatres effectively contest delimitation of human creative impulses (as revealed in classical Sanskrit theatre) from structuring as also of normative impulses of religion and culture, while amalgamating influences from Western theatre, newly-rising religious reform movements of 19th century India, tantra and Bhakti. It further highlights their ability to adapt and reinvent themselves in accordance with spatial and temporal transformations to constitute an important anthropological layer of Indian society. Comprehensive and empirically rich, this book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of cultural studies, theatre, film and performance studies, sociology, political studies, popular culture, and South Asian studies.
First Buddhist Women
Author: Susan Murcott
Publisher: Parallax Press
ISBN: 188837554X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
First Buddhist Women is a readable, contemporary translation of and commentary on the enlightenment verses of the first female disciples of the Buddha. The book explores Buddhism’s relatively liberal attitude towards women since its founding nearly 2,600 years ago, through the study of the Therigatham, the earliest know collection of women’s religious poetry. Through commentary and storytelling, author Susan Murcott traces the journey of the wives, mothers, teachers, courtesan, prostitutes, and wanderers who became leaders in the Buddhist community, roles that even today are rarely filled by women in other patriarchal religions. Their poetry beautifully expresses their search for spiritual attainment and their struggles in society.
Publisher: Parallax Press
ISBN: 188837554X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
First Buddhist Women is a readable, contemporary translation of and commentary on the enlightenment verses of the first female disciples of the Buddha. The book explores Buddhism’s relatively liberal attitude towards women since its founding nearly 2,600 years ago, through the study of the Therigatham, the earliest know collection of women’s religious poetry. Through commentary and storytelling, author Susan Murcott traces the journey of the wives, mothers, teachers, courtesan, prostitutes, and wanderers who became leaders in the Buddhist community, roles that even today are rarely filled by women in other patriarchal religions. Their poetry beautifully expresses their search for spiritual attainment and their struggles in society.