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Important Resources on Indian Aesthetics Rasa - from open university booklet Indian Aesthetics: A Handbook - Neerja Gupta Indian Aesthetics-A chapter from a thesis Anandavardhana-s-Theory-of-Dhvani-Shift-and-Assimilation Vakrokti from Inflibnet

Dialogic criticism:  (From- A Glossary of Literary Terms- M. H. Abrams) Dialogic criticism is modeled on the theory and critical procedures of the Soviet critic Mikhail Bakhtin who, although he published his major works in the 1920s and 1930s, remained virtually unknown to the West until the 1980s, when translations of his writings gave him a wide and rapidly increasing influence. To Bakhtin a literary work is not (as in various poststructural theories) a text whose meanings are produced by the play of impersonal linguistic or economic or cultural forces, but a site for the dialogic interaction of multiple voices, or modes of discourse, each of which is not merely a verbal but a social phenomenon, and as such is the product of manifold determinants that are specific to a class, social group, and speech community. A person’s speech does not express a pre-existent and autonomous individuality; instead, his or her character emerges in the course of the dialogue and is composed o...

Psychological and psychoanalytic criticism (From- A Glossary of Literary Terms - M. H. Abrams) Psychological criticism deals with a work of literature primarily as an expression, in an indirect and fictional form, of the state of mind and the structure of personality of the individual author. This approach emerged in the early decades of the nineteenth century, as part of the romantic replacement of earlier mimetic and pragmatic views by an expressive view of the nature of literature; see criticism. By 1827 Thomas Carlyle could say that the usual question “with the best of our own critics at present” is one “mainly of a psychological sort, to be answered by discovering and delineating the peculiar nature of the poet from his poetry.” During the Romantic Period, we find widely practiced all three types of the critical procedures (still current today) that are based on the assumption that the details and form of a work of literature are correlated with its author’s distinctive me...