Critique Of Poetics ( Vol. 1 ) (Hardcover)  | Released: 2005

Poetry and Poetics are integrally related. The former is an art based on emotions, whereas the latter is a science evaluating poetry. So long their common mode of treatment has been to excite in the mind the emotions appropriate to the subject-matter. But science and art are not identical. The former uses the �discursive� mode; and the latter the �presentational� mode. While science is �truth,� the art is adjectively �true�, i.e. it does not conflict with the truth.
The book Critique of Poetics is an extremely bold and far reaching attempt at a comprehensive theory of poetry. It starts with a Sound-Sense Continuum and ends with Quantum Poetics. The path of evolution is marked by the poetic process, the flow of Rasa, the flight of Pegasus, the dance of Resonons, the doctrine of suggestion, Rx for rhetoric, the logic of signs and symbols, the poetic imagery, the miracle of communication, the concept of criticism, style and stylistics, the law of inspiration and catharsis, the limits of art, the philosophy of beauty, East and West in Poetics, and the theory of literature. And this has been treated in a global perspective, which harmonizes both East and West in Poetics. A balance has also been struck between the two approaches to the study of literature�Extrinsic and Intrinsic. The former is characterized by psychology-society and other arts whereas the latter by style and stylistics, image and metaphor, rhetoric and suggestion, beauty and the like. A new theory of literature has been derived from these. This is born in a continuum of sound and sense, of space and time. It provides an organ of evaluating the past, present and future works of literature. In this context quantum poetics marks the end of the evolutionary process.
Table of Contents: 1. A Sound-sense Continuum; Language and statement�Sphota�Ordinary and poetic language�East and West�Sound and Sense�Dhvani�Equation of continuum �Rasa auchitya Universe; 2. The Poetic Process; Poet, poem and reality�Subject and object�; Art and experience�Condensation�Atomic theory�Bilinear transformation�Poetic process and illumination; 3. The Flow of Rasa; Vakrokti and aucitya-rasa explained�; Bharat and James�Vibh�va�anubh�va� sanc�ribh�va�Objective correlative and psychophysics�Mathematical formulation of rasa; 4. The Flight of Pegasus; The P-phenomenon�God�Poet equation�; A triadic relation of poet, reader and universe�Poetry of tension�Psychology of imagination�Mathematical formulation; 5. The Dance of Resonons; The Freudian model�Phase space and brain model�The cortical resonance�Genesis of a poem�Resonance frequency�Pratibh�, dhvani and vyanjan��Resonon analysed; 6. The Doctrine of Suggestion; Expression and representation�Abhidh� lakshman� and Vyanjan��Expression, suppression and impression�Suggestion mathematically defined� Poetic experience� The context theorem of meaning�The triple point in a word�The source of poetry; 7. Rx for Rhetoric; Fancy, imagination and vision�The three modes of the mind�The dialectics explained �The poetic probability�The evolution of Rhetoric�Figures of speech�The alank�r of Indian Poetics�Rasa as a production function; 8. The Logic of Signs and Symbols; Phonemes, morphemes and tagmemes�The utterance co-ordinates�Signs and symbols� Panini�s symbols�Canons of symbolism� Mathematics and meta-mathematics�The Sanskrit �Om��Sign-situation in mathematics; 9. The Poetic Imagery; Image and sensation�The brain as a transmitter and a transformer�The symbolic process analysed�The image-formation�Strangeness in beauty�The abstract and the concrete�The poetic pattern�The myth-making and metaphor� Mathematical interpretations�The image itself; 10. The Miracle of Communication; A subject-object relation�Intensive manifold or in-scape�Experience and words�Diction and Rhythm�The discharge phenomena�An equation of communication�The objective correlative and the Indian N�tya��stra� Expression and transmission�Memory as a polyhedron�The structure of Chinese characters�No difficulties of communication