RLB369 Aesthetics and Religion in Sanskrit Tradition

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2013
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Sanath Kumara Wijesundara (lecturer), Mgr. Milan Fujda, Ph.D. (deputy)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. David Václavík, Ph.D.
Department for the Study of Religions – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Lucie Čelková
Supplier department: Department for the Study of Religions – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Mon 19:10–20:45 G21
Prerequisites
The students who are interested in theater, philosophy, linguistics, Aesthetics, and literature are most welcome. Though a basic knowledge in Sanskrit is an advantage, however it is not a necessity to follow this course.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 30 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/30, only registered: 0/30, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/30
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Students acquaint with various literary theories of Indian Sanskrit literary tradition from critical, comparative and contrastive viewpoint. With such knowledge, the students will be able to :
identify the roles of religion, philosophy, and linguistics played in Sanskrit literary criticism.
They will also be able to understand the evolutionary process of Sanskrit literary criticism.
With the comparative understanding of the literary criticism in the East and the West, it is expected that the students will be able to appreciate a piece of art on their own.
Syllabus
  • 1. Concept of Beauty in Indian tradition
  • 2. Indian dramatic theory and practice
  • 3. Indian view on literature
  • 4. Indian literary critiques and their texts
  • 5. Theories of Rhetoric, Style, and Literary Excellence
  • 6. Theory of Sentiment
  • 7. Theory of Suggestion
  • 8. Theories after the theory of Suggestion
  • 9. Critiques of the last phase of Indian literary criticism
  • 10. Literary criticism in the East and the West
Literature
    required literature
  • TRIPATI, RADHA VALLABH. Lectures on the Naatyasaastra. 1st edition. Pune, India: Centre of Advanced Study in Sanskrit, University of Poona, 1991., 1991, 118 pp. info
  • Global Aesthetics and Sanskrit Poetics. 1st. New Delhi: Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan, 1998. info
  • History of Sanskrit Poetics. 4th Edition. Delhi, India: Motilal Banarsidass, 1994. ISBN 81-208-0274-8. info
  • DHAYAGAUDE, SURESH. Western and Indian Poetics – A Comparative Study. 1st. Pune, India: Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, 1981. info
  • Some Problems of Sanskrit Poetics. 1st Edition. Calcutta, India: Firma K.L. Mukhopadhyay,, 1959, 267 pp. info
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
Information on course enrolment limitations: Zápis mimo religionistiku je podmíněn souhlasem vyučujícího.
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