Uttam Chand
(Officiating Principal)
Associate Professor
Dept. of Hindi
Jawaharhar Lal Nehru College of Fine Arts
Shimla, Himachal Pradesh (India)
Abstract
A sense of profound literary depth exists which utters from the human capacity to make observations and judgments of an aesthetic nature. The qualitative structure of human embodied experience is determined by aesthetic perception. Literary works are read, evaluated, appreciated, or criticized by the Western, the Eastern, and the ancient as well as modern readers. The only difference is of time, place, language, mythology, images, and cultural background of a country. ‘Rasa’ and ‘sublimity’ are the aesthetics associated with literature and instigate the dramatic emotional elements.
The purpose of the paper is to revisit the two classical literary theories of ‘Rasa’ and ‘Sublime’ to explore views of Bharata Muni, an Indian sage-poet, and Longinus, a Greek critic. For Bharata, it is ‘Natya’ (drama) and for Longinus, it is ‘poetry’ (kavya).
Keywords: Aesthetic, Rasa, Sublime, Transcendental.
