This anthology explores the possibilities of a  non-Eurocentric comparative literature. Contributors explain and  analyze a variety of material from the Indian literary tradition,  examining both its indigenous development and its relations with the  West. In doing this, they draw upon and develop ideas from cultural  criticism, literary theory, linguistics, and Indology.    This book begins with an examination of Indian and Western views on  basic concerns of literary theory and aesthetics: authorship, genre,  and literary language. Specific works of Indian literature are  discussed, as are the striking similarities between eighth-century  Sanskrit romances and Shakespeare's late plays; the indirect links of  Asian folk and popular dramatic traditions with Bertolt Brecht's epic  theater; the oppositional parallelism that marks Kipling's Kim and  Tagore's Gora; the suggestive variations on the theme of exile in  contemporary Indian cinema and Sophocles' Theban plays. The book ends  with a re-consideration of post-colonial theory drawing on both Indian  and European sources.

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