9. True Fiction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Part I. Theorizing Imagination
5. 1. Mind-Born Worlds 3
6. 2. Poets, Playwrights, Painters 24
7. 3. Singularity, Inexhaustibility, Insight: What Sanskrit Poeticians Think Is Real 51
8. 4. Poetics 2: Illumination 80
9. 5. Toward a Yoga of the Imagination 109
10. Part II. The Sixteenth-Century Revolution
11. 6. Early Modern Bhāvanā 147
12. 7. Sīmantinī: Irrevocable Imaginings 155
13. 8. Nala in Tenkasi and the New Economy of Mind 175
14. 9. True Fiction 205
15. 10. The Marriage of Bhāvanā and Best 232
16. 11. Toward Conclusion 267
17. Notes 289
18. Bibliography 313
19. Index 327