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Rasa and Katharsis: A Comparative Study, Aided by Several Films

2002; American Oriental Society; Volume: 122; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/3087620

2169-2289

Edwin Gerow,

Indian History and Philosophy

Starting from the question of how extra-poetic content is incorporated into the work of art, an effort is made here to assess the translatability of the Indian rasa aesthetic by comparing it, on the one hand, to the problematic Aristotelian notion of katharsis and, on the other, by finding in its categories a way of classifying a variety of recent films