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Reading group: Aristotle’s Poetics as a craft manual, with the Nāṭyaśāstra beside it
I'm a poet and a literature postgraduate in Kochi, new to formal philosophy. I've always read the Poetics as "Aristotle's theory of art". Recently I came across the argument that this is a mistranslation of the whole enterprise: the Greek technē covered…
Started by Kavya Menon4 replies199 views -
Reading group: the Nāṭyaśāstra’s chapters on rasa and bhāva
I'm a poet and literature postgraduate in Kochi, and new to formal philosophy. Everyone in my department mentions rasa, almost nobody has read the chapters where the theory is actually set out. I'd like to read them with company, and with people…
Started by Kavya Menon4 replies150 views -
Reading group: how grief becomes rasa, from Lollaṭa to Abhinavagupta
The rasa debate is one of the great sustained arguments in Indian philosophy, and it is usually presented in a single paragraph that flattens it. I propose we read it slowly, commentator by commentator. The main difficulty is that the commentaries of…
Started by Meera Kulkarni5 replies168 views