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JOURNAL
OF
COMPARATIVE
LITERATURE
AND
AESTHETICS
Vol. XV Nos. 1-2: 1992
A Special Volume on Indian Aesthetics and Contemporary Theory
Co-edited by M.S. Kushwaha
(Lacknow University)
A Vishvanatha Kaviraja Institute Publication

Editor: A.C. SUKLA

B-8, Sambalpur University,
Jyoti Vihar, Orissa, India-768019

EDITORIAL BOARD
Indian Members:
V.K. Chari
Carleton University

Foreign Members
Rene Wellek,
Yale University

Suresh Raval
University of Arizona

M.H. Abrams,
Cornell University

M.S. Kushwaha,
Lucknow University

Donald Crawfold,
University of Wisconsin

J.N. Mohanty,
Temple University

T.J. Diffey,
University of Sussex

S.P. Mohanty,
Cornell University

Denis Dutton,
University of Canterbury

S.K. Saxena
University of Delhi

Ralph Chohen,
University of Virgin
W.I.T. Mitchel,
Chicago University
Donald R. Kelly,
University of Rochester

Book Review Editor

John Hospers,
University of Southern California

David E. Fenner,
University of North Florida

Milton Snoeyenbos
Georgia State University
Grazia Marchiano
University of Siena

JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE
LITERATURE AND AESTHETICS

Volume: XV

Nos. 1-2:

1992

A VISHVANATHA KAVIRAJA INSTITUTE PUBLICATION

The Present Volume is dedicated to the Memory of Late Professor Jagannath

Chakravorty (August 1923-March 1992), Formerly Head of the Department of English,
Jadavpur University (Calcutta: India). Editor-in-Chief, National Dictionary (Jatiya
Abhidhan), National Council of Education, General Secretary, Asiatic Society of Bengal,
Eminent Shakespearean Critic, Modern Bengali Poet and Critic and Member of the
Editorial Board of JCLA since its inception in 1978.

A Special Volume on Indian Aesthetics and Contemporary Theory Co-edited by

M.S. Kushwaha (Lacknow Univsersity)

CONTENTS
1-4
A.C. SUKLA
Jagannath Chakrovorty (1923-1992) : A Memoir
5-17
DUSHAN PAJIN
Remembrance, Recognition and the Aesthetic Way
18-41
A.C. SUKLA
Representation in Painting and Drama : Arguments from Indian Aesthetics
42-51
JANE DURAN
The Arts of Amama and India : A Study in Representation
52-71
R.S. PATHAK
Dialectics of the Reader-Response : The Indian Approach
72-77
KRISHNA RAYAN
Laksana and Deconstruction
78-84
DHANYA MENON
Multi-level Semantics:
An Analysis of Poetic Meaning in Indian and Contemporary Western Theory
85-97
KAPIL KAPOOR
Theory of the Novel : An Indian View
98-109
SITANSU RAY
Tagore on Comparative Music Aesthetics : Indian and Western
110-113
M.S. KUSHWAHA
The Contemporary Relevance of Indian Aesthetics : Some Reflections
114-117
H. PANDA
Jagannath Chakrovorty : A Shakespearean Critic

Dr. Jagannath Chakravorty

BOOK REVEIWS
1. Robert Magliola, Derrida on the Mend, Perdue University Press, West Lafayette,
1984, PP. 238.
2. Harold Coward, Derrida and Indian Philosophy, State University of New York Press,
Albany, 1990, PP.200.
3. G.N. Devy, After Amnesia: Tradition and Change in Indian Literary Criticism, Orient
Longman, Hyderabad, Bombay etc., 1992, PP. 147.
4. Chari, V.K: Sanskrit Criticism (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press), 1990. pp. xiv
+306.
5. Kushwaha, M.S. (ed.): Indian Poetics and Western thought (Lacknow: Argo
Publishing House), 1988, PP. xii +266
6. New Perspective on Indian Poetics (Lucknow: Argo Publishing House), 1990
viii+111.
7. V.S. Seturaman (ed.): Indian Aesthetics: An Introduction. Macmillan India, 1992.
8. Bharat Gupta, Dramatic Concepts: Greek and Indian. New Delhi: D.K. Printworld
(P) Ltd., 1994, PP. 295.
9. Krishna Rayan, Text and Sub-Text: A Theory of Suggestion, Arnold Heineman, 1987,
235 pp. and Sahitya, A Theory, Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd., 1991, 91 pp:
10. Colin Falck, Myth, Truth and Literature: Towards a True post-Modernism
(Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1989) PP. XV +173.
11. Daniel H.H. Ingalls, J.M. Masson, M.V. Patwardhan (Translated with an introduction
by Ingalls), The Dhvanyaloka of Anandavardhana with the Locana of Abhinavagupta,
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, 1990, pp.837.

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