Exam 6: Aesthetics and Literary Criticism From Aristotle to Indian Theory

Who is the Kashmiri scholar whose Vakroktijivita is famous for the discussion of vakrata (indirection or obliqueness) in expression in poetry?

Which is the entire part of a tragedy placed between the complete choric songs, in the divisions of a tragedy when staged?

Who is the most authoritative exponent of Pratyabhijna philosophy that is centered on Kashmiri Shaivism?

Who wrote the essay "The Critical Monism of Cleanth Brooks"?

Which theory in Indian aesthetics theory connotes indirect or suggestive expression?

Who considers Hard Times "a moral fable" with a definite intention that exhibits satiric irony in the first two chapters of his book The Great Tradition?

Who was the first dramatist to recognise the importance of rasa in aesthetics?

Who mentions: "Every great poet is a teacher; I wish either to be considered as a teacher or as a nothing".

Which book in the Republic ends with the Phoenician myth, which Socrates feels would serve as the effective mythical explanation for their State/

What is the source of dhwani theory?

Which genre, according to Aristotle is divided into the epic and the dramatic according to the manner of its imitation?

Who attempts to define a philosopher and introduces the Theory of Forms?

Whose misfortunes should an ideal plot depict?

Who mentions "vakyam rasatmakam kavyam", which means any composition which gives tasteful pleasure is poetry?

What is the term used to refer to pictorial poetry?

Who is the author of The Art of Rhetoric (1553) that could be regarded the first modern treatise on English composition?

Which term by Kuntaka is used to include dhwani as a mode of varkroti ?

Which Indian grammarian discussed the concept of dhwani in a systematic manner?

Choose the work from the choices below that is in the form of scholarly exchanges between Plato and his teacher Socrates.

To whom does Longinus write "On the Sublime", which is in the form of letters?