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Application of Rasa Theory in James Joyce's A Portrait of The Artist As A Young Man
Application of Rasa Theory in James Joyce's A Portrait of The Artist As A Young Man
Application of Rasa Theory in James Joyce's A Portrait of The Artist As A Young Man
ABSTRACT INTRODUCTION
The synchronic and diachronic study of literature If literature is communication of a special kind,
explicate that literature is essentially about life and language is the means of that communication. The
emotionss thus it has timeless appeal meaning thereby language of literature is emotive and it has a feeling of
that there is something in a literary work that content. It has a universal and timeless appeal that
transcends time and space. Readers of different connects readers of different countries, cultures,
cultu
countries, culture, religions, ideologies, passions and religion, ideologies, passions and prejudices to
prejudices do appreciate and relish literature of appreciate literature of altogether a different place as
altogether
er a different place as it provides aesthetic it provides aesthetic enjoyment to them. Aesthetics or
enjoyment to them. A close conspicuous analysis of The Theory of Beauty in art and literature has been
the available literature may expound the fact that the one of the early pursuits of human mind.
min The idea of
most fascinating area of intersection between Indian beauty naturally brings
rings in the idea of beauty and
and Western literature is to be found in the realm of sublime. A thing of beauty is not only a joy forever,
poetics and aesthetics. James joyce’s A Portrait of the but it is an invitation to explore the reasons for that
Artist as a Young Manis an example of German joy.
philosophy of Bildungsroman which deals with the
formation of an artist, it traces the journey of Being, The most fascinating area of intersection between
Becoming and Unbecoming of an individual, where wherein Indian and Western literatures, can be said to be found
an individual passes through the socio
socio-pragmatic as in the realm of poetics and aesthetics. Indian poetics is
well as aesthetico-spiritual
spiritual realm of realities. In the nothing but Sanskrit poetics which is an immortal
conduit of aforementioned realities, an individual encyclopedia of the theories and doctrines about
passes through a number of emotions, sentiments and poetry and drama. The development of Sanskrit
feelings which in turn shape the epistemic texture of poetics has been traced through its fairly long and
the character. The problem that confronts a critic is to varied course of history, which covers an extensive
find out how in a work of art, an emotion is depicted, literature of more than one and half millennium.
suggested and how it is finally communicated to the Sanskrit literature, where writings of a philosophical
reader. In the realm of Indian aesthetics, the key to and speculative nature are bound, has been a fertile
any analysis of aesthetic transformation
ransformation is the theory field in which
ich many books have been written to
of Rasa. The Rasa Theory essentially deals with enlighten the views of the readers on the nature and
various kinds of emotions and how they are depicted, scope of poetry and on the nature of poetic delight.
inferred and transmitted through a work of art. Thus,
the present paper shall take into account philosophical The Indian poetics is evolved out of the dramaturgy
underpinnings of Rasa Theory in order to analyze the and the oldest existing work on Indian poetics is the
given novel. Keywords: Indian aesthetics, Rasa Natyasatra by Bharatmuni.
tmuni. The Rasa siddhanta
theory, Bildungsroman. occupies a prestigious place among the schools of
Indian poetics and Bharatmuni is acknowledged to be
Keywords: Indian aesthetics, Rasa theory, the first exponent of Rasa theory which he has
Bildungsroman systematically set forth in his treatise Natayasastra.