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Late colonial sublime : neo-epics and the end of romanticism / G. S. Sahota.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sahota, G. S., author.
- Series:
- FlashPoints (Evanston, Ill.)
- FlashPoints series ; v. 29
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hindi literature--India--19th century--History and criticism.
- Hindi literature.
- Hindi literature--India--20th century--History and criticism.
- Urdu literature--India--19th century--History and criticism.
- Urdu literature.
- Urdu literature--India--20th century--History and criticism.
- Romanticism--India.
- Romanticism.
- Sublime, The, in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- Taking cues from Walter Benjamin's fragmentary writings on literary-historical method, Late Colonial Sublime reconstellates the dialectic of Enlightenment across a wide imperial geography, with special focus on the fashioning of neo-epics in Hindi and Urdu literary cultures in British India.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780810136502
- 0810136503
- OCLC:
- 1011116798
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