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Sahota, G. S

Late colonial sublime neo-epics and the end of Romanticism - Evanston Northwestern University Press 2018 - xiv, 277p. illustrations 24 cm - FlashPoints . - FlashPoints (Evanston, Ill.) .

Includes bibliographic references (pages 247-271) and index.

Introduction: Aporias of modernity -- Fractured frames: imperial parallax and disjointed time -- Commodity and sublimity: mimesis of the immaterial -- Romanticism's horizons, or the transmission of critique -- Atmospherics of imperialism: Benjamin's sublime -- Neo-epic constellation: out of British India -- Hali's transvaluation of modernity: allegories of Marsiya -- Iqbal, or the Sturm und Drang of late colonial India: resemblances of pure content -- Utility and culture: modern subjectivity and Hindi neo-traditional aesthetics -- Epilogue: Melancholic ornament: TV Ramayana, nostalgia, and kitsch as counter-Enlightenment.

ISBN: 9780810136489

LCCN: 2017022781

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Hindi literature--History and criticism--India--19th century
Hindi literature--History and criticism--India--20th century
Urdu literature--History and criticism--India--19th century
Urdu literature--History and criticism--India--20th century
Romanticism--India.
Sublime, The, in literature

LC Class. No.: PK2037 / .S24 2018

Dewey Class. No.: 891.4309 / SA-L