{"product_id":"smritibiloper-pore-bharatiya-sahitya-samalochanar-dharay-oitijhya-o-paribartaner-parampara-9789386689597","title":"Smritibiloper Pore-Bharatiya Sahitya Samalochanar Dharay Oitijhya O Paribartaner Parampara","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Ganesh Devy and Sankar Prasad Sinha (tr.), Dr Indranil Acharya (tr.)\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the Bangla translation of  the second edition of the 1993 Sahitya Acakdemi Award winning English title \u003cem\u003eAfter Amnesia \u003c\/em\u003epublished by us.  \u003cbr\u003e This is an original analysis of literary criticism in India. It describes what is recognized by common agreement as\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003ea crisis in Indian criticism, and explains it in historical terms. \u003cbr\u003e Devy argues that the colonial experience in India gave rise to false images of the ancient Indian past as well as the modern West, and induced a state of ‘cultural amnesia’ and mistaken modes of literary criticism. It is this amnesia that is responsible for the belief among literary historians that accounting for critical tradition is necessary while constructing history of literature in modern Indian languages. Is it not conceivable\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003efor the languages like Marathi and Gujarati to have produced great literature for half a millennium without feeling the need to developing corresponding form of literary criticism? The author suggests that a proper assessment of literary criticism in Indian languages will become possible by postulating a more reliable literary history.  \u003cbr\u003e Drawing upon Marathi and Gujarati—and occasionally on Indian English—criticism, the author maintains that the crisis in contemporary literary criticism is caused primarily by a lapse in cultural memory. Since criticism that develops\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003efrom a misleading historiography is ill-equipped to break new theoretical ground, the book also proposes a tentative historiography of Indian criticism.  \u003cbr\u003e This  has a chapter in which the author discusses the effects of the momentous changes that took place since the book was first published in English in 1993, and their impact\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eon the languages and linguistic creativity in India. He also details the nature of the profound changes that natural memory is undergoing due to the information technology and points to its impact on the nature of literary imagination. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45616518496407,"sku":"9789386689597","price":753.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9789386689597.webp?v=1769295005","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/smritibiloper-pore-bharatiya-sahitya-samalochanar-dharay-oitijhya-o-paribartaner-parampara-9789386689597","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}