Poetics East and West - Hardcover

This book reflects the legacy of India critical theories and poetic tradition in terms of its similarity in approach to some of the prominent western literary theories. It deals with the concept of poetic language, its nature and definition as interpreted by two major theories of Sanskrit criticism-the Dhvani and the Vakrokti-and two western theories-the new criticism and the Russian Formalism. It studies the Indian and the western theories independently and enquires whatever there are points of convergence between them.