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There is a marked awareness about the language of literature and its meaning both in Indian and Western aesthetic thinking. The aestheticians of both schools hold that the language of literature embodies a significant aspect of human experience, and represents a creative pattern of verbal structure to impart meaning effectively.Modern Western aesthetic thinking, which includes theories like formalism, new criticism, stylistics, structuralism, post-structuralism, deconstruction, discourse analysis, semiotics and dialogic criticism, in one way or another emphasizes the study of the language of literature in order to understand its meaning. Similarly, there is a distinct focus on the language of literature and its meaning in Indian literary theories which include the theory of rasa (aesthetic experience), alamkara (the poetic figure), riti (diction), dhvani (suggestion), vakrokti (oblique expression) and aucitya (propriety). This book explores how the language of literature and its meaning have been dealt with in both Indian and Western aesthetic thinking. In doing so, the study concentrates on Kuntaka's theory of vakrokti and Anandavardhana's theory of dhvani in Indian aesthetic thinking and Russian formalism and deconstruction in Western thinking. The book categorically focuses on the intersection between the theory of vakrokti and Russian formalism and the meeting-point between the theory of dhvani and deconstruction.

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Ashima Shrawan works as an Assistant Professor of English at Shri BhagwanDas Adarsh Sanskrit Mahavidyalaya, India, where she teaches English language and literature. She obtained her PhD in English from Gurukul Kangri Vishwavidyalaya, India, in 2016. Her academic focus is Indian and Western poetics and Indian classical literature in English. Her recent publications and talks include Perspectivising Aesthetics of Literature: A Note (2013), Bhishma Parva of the Mahabharata and the Bhagavad Gita (2015), Understanding Women Empowerment: Women Characters in the Mahabharata (2015), Language and Its Meaning: Indian Theories (2015), Anandavardhana's Theory of Dhvani and Deconstruction: Affinities and Parallelisms (2016) and Decolonizing the Indian Mind: A Study of Indian Poetics (2019).

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