More Than Real: A History of the Imagination in South India

by David Dean Shulman

From the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, the major cultures of southern India underwent a revolution in sensibility reminiscent of what had occurred in Renaissance Italy. During this time, the imagination came to be recognized as the defining feature of human beings. More than Real draws our attention to a period in Indian history that signified major civilizational change and the emergence of a new, proto-modern vision.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674059913
• ISBN13: 9780674059917
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.3"