"The drama of our world : spectator and subject in medieval Kashmir and early modern Europe
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Is all the world a stage? How do we as subjects and spectators perceive the world? How do we take pleasure in watching plays? At surface level, one might not think that thinkers from two cultures as removed from each other as the long tenth century in Kashmir and the long seventeenth century in France and England might have much to say to each other on these abstract questions. And yet, in examining the thought of philosophers, playwrights, and literary critics from the long seventeenth century in France and England and the long tenth century in Kashmir, this dissertation argues otherwise. On questions of epistemology and metaphysics on the one hand and dramatic theory and poetics on the other, they shared surprisingly many common perspectives, including the critical intuition of the interdependence of these disciplines. These common threads enable us to create a conversation between them as equals at a table, precisely the kind made impossible by colonization and its legacy. In a broad sense, then, the goals of this intervention are threefold: historical (to change the narrative about where certain ideas originated), political (to make room at this conversational table), and intellectual (to ensure that these ideas do not remain the property of a certain civilization but as shared cultural property). In doing so, this dissertation offers a methodological model that can be useful for creating conversations among cultures from across the world, not despite but because of their radical alterity and seeming irrelevance to our modern world.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2023; ©2023 |
| Publication date | 2023; 2023 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Koul, Radhika |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Greene, Roland, 1957- |
| Degree supervisor | Landy, Joshua, 1965- |
| Thesis advisor | Greene, Roland, 1957- |
| Thesis advisor | Landy, Joshua, 1965- |
| Thesis advisor | Edelstein, Dan |
| Thesis advisor | Fisher, Elaine M, 1984- |
| Degree committee member | Edelstein, Dan |
| Degree committee member | Fisher, Elaine M, 1984- |
| Associated with | Stanford University, School of Humanities and Sciences |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Comparative Literature |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Radhika Koul. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Comparative Literature. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2023. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/qx879cn2865 |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2023 by Radhika Koul
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC-ND).
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