Abstract:

It may be important to recall that other equally old classical critical traditions exist, especially at a time when we are questioning the capacity of such Western critical procedures to make sense of the many of literatures generated by the world's civilizations. There is an unbroken chain of literary theory and criticism in Indian culture that dates back at least as far as the Western canon. Since literature is given a higher status in the Indian tradition than in the Greek one, literary criticism in India is a rich and mostly unexplored resource for literary theorists. Critique, as defined by T.S. Eliot, is "the exposition of works of art and the corrective of taste," and this definition remains valid. At the time (the early 1920s), he said, it was more like a Sunday Park crowded with fighting and contentious orators than a wellorganized arena of charitable action.

Description:

criticism, Modern literary, Indian tradition, Indian Literature