Acknowledgements
Introduction
Section One: The Cultural Turn Within Classical Aesthetics
1. The Social Aesthetic and Sanskrit Literary Theory / Sheldon Pollock
2. What is New and What is Navya: Sanskrit Poetics on the Eve of Colonialism / Yigal Bronner
3. Tamil Sangam Poetry: The Plebeian in the Classical Tradition / Mini Chandran
4. What To Do with the Past? Sanskrit Literary Criticism in the Postcolonial Space / V.S. Sreenath
Section Two: Beyond Classicism: Contemporary Aesthetics as Method
5. Critique of Popular Culture / Partha Chatterjee
6. On Mumbai Police and Drishyam: Reading Desire into Two New Wave Crime Thrillers in Malayalam / Jenson Joseph
7. Of Pain and Other Tragic Emotions: A Study of Divinity in the Folktales from Karisial Kadu / Swathi Sudhakaran and Milind Brahme
8. From Dialectics to Dialects: A Reading of O.V. Vijayan’s Legends of Khasak / E.V. Ramakrishnan
Section Three: The Scattered Present of Aesthetics
9. The Critical Scene: Towards an Alternative Aesthetics? / K. Satchidanandan
10. Labour, Service, Performance: Towards a Global Shudrafication of Aesthetics and Politics / Soumyabrata Choudhury
11. Caste and/in Literary Imagination: A Critique of Brahmanical Aestheticism / Anandita Pan
12. Aesthetics and Methodology in English Studies: A Fragmented History / Punnya Rajendran
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