Late colonial sublime neo-epics and the end of Romanticism
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TextSeries: FlashPoints (Evanston, Ill.)Publication details: Evanston Northwestern University Press 2018Description: xiv, 277p. illustrations 24 cmISBN: - 9780810136489
- Hindi literature -- India -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Hindi literature -- India -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Urdu literature -- India -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Urdu literature -- India -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Romanticism -- India
- Sublime, The, in literature
- 891.4309 23 SA-L
- PK2037 .S24 2018
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Includes bibliographic references (pages 247-271) and index.
Introduction: Aporias of modernity -- Fractured frames: imperial parallax and disjointed time -- Commodity and sublimity: mimesis of the immaterial -- Romanticism's horizons, or the transmission of critique -- Atmospherics of imperialism: Benjamin's sublime -- Neo-epic constellation: out of British India -- Hali's transvaluation of modernity: allegories of Marsiya -- Iqbal, or the Sturm und Drang of late colonial India: resemblances of pure content -- Utility and culture: modern subjectivity and Hindi neo-traditional aesthetics -- Epilogue: Melancholic ornament: TV Ramayana, nostalgia, and kitsch as counter-Enlightenment.
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