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This collection of 18 essays articulates the structures of thought availavble in the Indian interllectual traditions in language, grammar and poetics. A whole range of issues relating to theory, pedagogy and analysis are taken up : the oral tradition and its texts, the structure of oral narratives, the limits of lexical meaning, the question of appropriate poetics, grammar as the primary moderl of knowledge and the epistemological status of etaphors are some of the iseues that have considerable theoretical significance and contemporary relevance as well. The conceptual frames emerging from these structures of signification are shown to be interwoven with, and pertinent for, the actual English language teaching practices and the analysis of English literary Texts. This collection demonstrates the value of interactive scholarship particularly in the fields of language, literary theory and epistemology in which India has knnown traditions of texts and thinkers. It thus, also constitutes an argument for re-locating modern Indian scholarship in its original roots-- the classical Sanskrit tradition. At the same time. the essays in this collection establish the validity of applying Indian explanatory constructs for contemporary objects by demonstrating the ability of their analytical systems to explicate both the modern structures of signification and the Indian response to them... ISBN: 81-7188-064-9
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