Course Content/ Syllabus Introduction; Bharatmuni: natya and rasa; Anandavardhana: dhvani; Abhinavagupta: santarasa; Mirza Ghalib and Al Badaoni: on poetry; Rabindranath Tagore: art and personality; Anand Coomaraswamy: spirituality and aesthetics; Dalit aesthetics of liberation
Books (In case UG compulsory courses, please give it as “Text books” and “Reference books”. Otherwise give it as “References”.
References: (Format: Authors, Book Title in Italics font, Volume/Series, Edition Number, Publisher, Year.)
1 G N Devy, ed. Indian Literary Criticism: Theory and Interpretation, Orient Longman, 2002
2 Anand Coomaraswamy, The Essential Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, Wisdom Inc., 2004
3 Sharankumar Limbale, Towards an Aesthetics of Dalit Literature, Trans A. Mukherjee, Orient Longman, 2004
