Author: Mukherjee, Sujit
Title: Some Positions on a Literary History of India
Description: Mysore, C.I.I.L. (1981). orig. wrappers. xi, 93 pp, 20x15cm, Series: Central Institute of Indian Languages, Occasional Monographs, 22.. Some minor rubbing, VG. ¶ Contents: Deposition: The Sanskritic Model; The Hindustani Model; The Bharatiya Model; Post Positions: The Primacy of Sanskrit; The Isolation of Tamil; The Preponderance of Religion; The Paucity of Prose; The Influence of the West; Pre-positions: The Orality of Literature; Literature as a Performing Art; The Language of Literature; The Poet in the Poem; Transcreation as New Writing; Propositions: The Major Texts; The Crucial Authors; The Itinerant Forms; The Shared Conventions; The Alternative Traditions; Disposition: The Early Phase; The Late Phase; The Recent Phase;Afterword.

Keywords: Indian Ethnology, Literary History, Sanskrit Philology, Language, India, South Asia, Criticism Critical, ,