Papers by debasish lahiri
Review of A Personal History of Vision by Luke Fische
Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe - HAL - SHS, 2016
Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe - HAL - Inria, 2018
About us Publishing your work Advisory board News FAQs Contact us Search Home / Heritage and Rupt... more About us Publishing your work Advisory board News FAQs Contact us Search Home / Heritage and Ruptures in Indian Literature, Culture and Cinema Picture of Heritage and Ruptures in Indian Literature, Culture and Cinema Heritage and Ruptures in Indian Literature, Culture and Cinema Editor(s): Cornelius Crowley, Geetha Ganapathy-Doré, Michel Naumann Subject: Indian Studies Book Description This book investigates the millennial history of the Indian subcontinent. Through the various methods adopted, the objects and moments examined, it questions various linguistic, literary and artistic appropriations of the past, to address the conflicting comprehensions of the present and also the figuring/imagining of a possible future. The volume engages with this general cultural condition, in relation both to the subcontinent’s current “synchronic” reality and to certain aspects of the culture’s underlying diachronic determinations. It also reveals how the multiple heritages are negotiated through the subcontinent’s long-term sedimentational history. It scrutinizes both conservative interpretations of heritage and a possibly incremental enrichment, and the additional possibility of a mode of appropriation open to a dialectic of creative destruction, in which the patrimonial imperative is challenged, leaving room for processes of renewal and rejuvenation. The collection is organized around four major topics: Orientalism, addressed by way of the Tamil Epic Manimekalai, through the evocation of the Hastings Circle and views on a possible Hindu-Muslim unity sketched out by Sayyid Ahmed Khan; modernism in Indian and Burmese texts written in English; pictorial art, through a consideration of the work of some modern and contemporary Indian artists and British Asian and Indian film directors; and, finally, the current state of a body of critical thinking on gender.
Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe - HAL - SHS, 2016
Transnational Literature, 2016
Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in …
Review By Debasish Lahiri The idea of vision and the idea as vision have a very long history. Ide... more Review By Debasish Lahiri The idea of vision and the idea as vision have a very long history. Idea derives from the Greek verb meaning 'to see'. This deep etymology signals towards the fact that the way one thinks about the way one thinks in Western culture is guided by a visual paradigm. In such a scheme of things looking, seeing and knowing become perilously intertwined. Thus the manner in which one comes to understand the concept of an 'idea' is deeply bound up with issues of 'appearance' of picture, and of image. As the early Wittgenstein had stated, a picture is a fact; and a logical picture of facts is an idea. In fact 'visual culture' has emerged as a history of images rather than a history of art. The visual never comes pure; it is always contaminated by the stain of other senses, touched by other texts and discourses. It is not now a question of replacing the blindness of the 'linguistic turn' with the 'new' blindnesses of the 'visual turn.' To hypostasize the visual risks of reinstalling the hegemony of the 'noble' sense, the visual, we may argue, is 'languaged,' just as language itself has a visual dimension. Word, Image, Text: Studies in Literary and Visual Culture approaches the content and form of Western intellectual history in terms of how they 'look'. The manifest phono-logo-centrism of the volume about 'visualising' culture attests to this point. A general pattern emerges in the essays of the volume whereby we begin from visual forms and talk and theorize and achieve understanding of those forms through mental constructs. The book, in fact, takes off from the complaint that the siblings Poetry (read literature) and Painting have fallen into a disquieting ekphrasis and need to be called back from their esoteric exiles on the margins of modernity. This project of mutually remembering the tattered body of Western art and literary copia under a metaphysical cupola begins in the Early Modern period and extends to the 19th century visual stratification of political power in revolutionary France.
Transnational Literature, 2018
Postcolonial Text, Mar 22, 2013
The Statesman, 2013
An essay on walkscapes...
The Statesman , 2011
In this article I set forth Edward.W. Said's Musical Elaborations as a work where his awareness o... more In this article I set forth Edward.W. Said's Musical Elaborations as a work where his awareness of the apparent dichotomy of emotional response and theoretical responsibility is palpably reflected.
The Statesman, 2013
A tribute to Kofi Awoonor.
The Statesman, 2012
A tribute to the genius of Arun Kolatkar.
THE SUNDAY STATESMAN, 8th DAY , 2020
A TRIBUTE TO JOHN KEATS AND HIS ODE ON A GRECIAN URN ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF HIS DEATH IN FEBRUARY
The Statesman, Festival Issue, 2018
An essay on Apollinaire's prophecy and the life and times of Rabindranath Tagore, especially the ... more An essay on Apollinaire's prophecy and the life and times of Rabindranath Tagore, especially the circumstances surrounding his final journey. An exploration of the nexus between Modernism and the Occult.
The Statesman, 2019
On the advent of May, and some of its anniversaries... A surreal take on history and the present
A tribute to the poetry of Meena Alexander... From The Statesman dated 16th December 2018.
On the beginning of Homer's Iliad. .. From the Statesman dated 6th January 2019.
Part 3 of the trilogy of essays on Polyphemus in The Statesman, 30th March 2014.
Part 2 of the trilogy of essays on Polyphemus in The Statesman, 23rd March 2014.
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