Earth, Love and Doom: Mythico-Symbolic Dimensions of Sri Authrobindo's Savitri
Mishra, Nanda Kishore
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Book ID : 32161
ISBN-10 : 81-7273-383-4 / 8172733834
Place
of Publication :
Delhi
Year
of Publication :
2008
Edition : (First Edition)
Language : English
242p., Bib., Index, 23 cm.
CONTENTS
CONTENTS:- 1. Sri Aurobindo: The Modern Vyasa; 2. Overhead Aesthesis and Sri Aurobindo's poetry-The Mantra of the Real; 3. Symbolism in Sri Aurobindo's poetry; 4. Savitri- A Mythicised Romance with Symbolic Overstones; 5. Aswapathy's Psycho-Spiritual Odyssey; 6. Major Symbols; 7. Other Symbols; 8. Symbolism in Saviti and Dante’s Divine Comedy; 9. Myth: A Creative Instrument of Knowledge.
DESCRIPTION
Sri Aurobindo's spiritual epic, Savitri, the lonely epic in Indian English Literature is a mythicised romance. In his prophetic vision and poetic scheme the all-encompasing Love of the Divine Mother troped as Savitri puts an end to Earth's Doom – the power of Darkness, such as, evil man's imperfection, poet interweaves multi-cultural values symbolic and allegorical allusions, mystical experience, a sort of soul-seeing, to interpret profound spiritual experience.
