LEADER 03721nam 2200601Ia 450 001 9910465476603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-674-06512-3 010 $a0-674-06932-3 024 7 $a10.4159/harvard.9780674065123 035 $a(CKB)2560000000082501 035 $a(OCoLC)794004269 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10593879 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000691620 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11406661 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000691620 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10633763 035 $a(PQKB)11042622 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3301127 035 $a(DE-B1597)178182 035 $a(OCoLC)840445171 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674065123 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3301127 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10593879 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000082501 100 $a20110915d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMore than real$b[electronic resource] $ea history of the imagination in south India /$fDavid Shulman 210 $aCambridge, MA $cHarvard University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (349 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-674-05991-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tPart I. Theorizing Imagination -- $t1. Mind-Born Worlds -- $t2. Poets, Playwrights, Painters -- $t3. Singularity, Inexhaustibility, Insight: What Sanskrit Poeticians Think Is Real -- $t4. Poetics 2: Illumination -- $t5. Toward a Yoga of the Imagination -- $tPart II. The Sixteenth-Century Revolution -- $t6. Early Modern Bh?van? -- $t7. S?mantin?: Irrevocable Imaginings -- $t8. Nala in Tenkasi and the New Economy of Mind -- $t9. True Fiction -- $t10. The Marriage of Bh?van? and Best -- $t11. Toward Conclusion -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aFrom the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, the major cultures of southern India underwent a revolution in sensibility reminiscent of what had occurred in Renaissance Italy. During this time, the imagination came to be recognized as the defining feature of human beings. More than Real draws our attention to a period in Indian history that signified major civilizational change and the emergence of a new, proto-modern vision.In general, India conceived of the imagination as a causative agent: things we perceive are real because we imagine them. David Shulman illuminates this distinctiveness and shows how it differed radically from Western notions of reality and models of the mind. Shulman's explication offers insightful points of comparison with ancient Greek, medieval Islamic, and early modern European theories of mind, and returns Indology to its rightful position of intellectual relevance in the humanities.At a time when contemporary ideologies and language wars threaten to segregate the study of pre-modern India into linguistic silos, Shulman demonstrates through his virtuoso readings of important literary works-works translated lyrically by the author from Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu, and Malayalam-that Sanskrit and the classical languages of southern India have been intimately interwoven for centuries. 606 $aImagination$xHistory 606 $aCulture diffusion$zIndia$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aImagination$xHistory. 615 0$aCulture diffusion$xHistory. 676 $a153.30954 700 $aShulman$b David Dean$f1949-$0919288 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910465476603321 996 $aMore than real$92471180 997 $aUNINA