• ISBN13: 9788126903771
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: Atlantic
• Publication Date: June 20, 2005
• Pages: 600
• Original Price: INR 1100.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 1000 grams

Poetry and Poetics are integrally related. The former is an art based on emotions, whereas the latter is a science evaluating poetry. So long their common mode of treatment has been to excite in the mind the emotions appropriate to the subject-matter. But science and art are not identical. The former uses the “discursive” mode; and the latter the “presentational” mode. While science is “truth,” the art is adjectively “true”, i.e. it does not conflict with the truth. The book Critique of Poetics is an extremely bold and far reaching attempt at a comprehensive theory of poetry. It starts with a Sound-Sense Continuum and ends with Quantum Poetics. The path of evolution is marked by the poetic process, the flow of Rasa, the flight of Pegasus, the dance of Resonons, the doctrine of suggestion, Rx for rhetoric, the logic of signs and symbols, the poetic imagery, the miracle of communication, the concept of criticism, style and stylistics, the law of inspiration and catharsis, the limits of art, the philosophy of beauty, East and West in Poetics, and the theory of literature. And this has been treated in a global perspective, which harmonizes both East and West in Poetics. A balance has also been struck between the two approaches to the study of literature—Extrinsic and Intrinsic. The former is characterized by psychology-society and other arts whereas the latter by style and stylistics, image and metaphor, rhetoric and suggestion, beauty and the like. A new theory of literature has been derived from these. This is born in a continuum of sound and sense, of space and time. It provides an organ of evaluating the past, present and future works of literature. In this context quantum poetics marks the end of the evolutionary process.

M.A., LL.M., Ph.D., D.Litt. (Hon.), is a scholar of varied taste. He has been a researcher in the fields of Law and Literature, Science and Philosophy, Religion and Psychology. The impulse to discover unity in diversity has led him to pastures fresh and new. A special contribution of the author is the introduction of Mathematics in Law, Literature and Religion. This is illustrated by his Metrics of Philosophy (1970), his doctoral thesis, The Calculus of Poetics (1974), now christened Critique of Poetics and A Spiritual Calculus (1977). Besides the post-doctoral researches in various fields the author has added fresh laurels to his credit, viz. Onauth Nauth Deb Gold Medal, Anandaram Barooh Medal, Griffith Memorial Prize, Adwaita Malla Burman Memorial Award and others. It seems the author has taken all knowledge as his province. His latest published works include Poet-I-Metrika (1998) and The Poetic Experience of Science (2001).

• 1. A Sound-sense Continuum
• Language and statement Sphota Ordinary and poetic language East and West Sound and Sense Dhvani Equation of continuum Rasa auchitya Universe
• 2. The Poetic Process
• Poet, poem and reality Subject and object
• Art and experience Condensation Atomic theory Bilinear transformation Poetic process and illumination
• 3. The Flow of Rasa
• Vakrokti and aucitya-rasa explained
• Bharat and James VibhÈva anubhÈva sancÈribhÈva Objective correlative and psychophysics Mathematical formulation of rasa
• 4. The Flight of Pegasus
• The P-phenomenon God Poet equation
• A triadic relation of poet, reader and universe Poetry of tension Psychology of imagination Mathematical formulation
• 5. The Dance of Resonons
• The Freudian model Phase space and brain model The cortical resonance Genesis of a poem Resonance frequency PratibhÈ, dhvani and vyanjanÈ Resonon analysed
• 6. The Doctrine of Suggestion
• Expression and representation AbhidhÈ lakshmanÈ and VyanjanÈ Expression, suppression and impression Suggestion mathematically defined Poetic experience The context theorem of meaning The triple point in a word The source of poetry
• 7. Rx for Rhetoric
• Fancy, imagination and vision The three modes of the mind The dialectics explained The poetic probability The evolution of Rhetoric Figures of speech The alankÈr of Indian Poetics Rasa as a production function
• 8. The Logic of Signs and Symbols
• Phonemes, morphemes and tagmemes The utterance co-ordinates Signs and symbols Panini’s symbols Canons of symbolism Mathematics and meta-mathematics The Sanskrit ‘Om’ Sign-situation in mathematics
• 9. The Poetic Imagery
• Image and sensation The brain as a transmitter and a transformer The symbolic process analysed The image-formation Strangeness in beauty The abstract and the concrete The poetic pattern The myth-making and metaphor Mathematical interpretations The image itself
• 10. The Miracle of Communication
• A subject-object relation Intensive manifold or in-scape Experience and words Diction and Rhythm The discharge phenomena An equation of communication The objective correlative and the Indian NÈtyaàÈstra Expression and transmission Memory as a polyhedron The structure of Chinese characters No difficulties of communication