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The synchronic and diachronic study of literature explicate that literature is essentially about life and emotions thus it has timeless appeal meaning thereby that there is something in a literary work that transcends time and space. Readers of different countries, culture, religions, ideologies, passions and prejudices do appreciate and relish literature of altogether a different place as it provides aesthetic enjoyment to them. A close conspicuous analysis of the available literature may expound the fact that the most fascinating area of intersection between Indian and Western literature is to be found in the realm of poetics and aesthetics. James joyces A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Manis an example of German philosophy of Bildungsroman which deals with the formation of an artist, it traces the journey of Being, Becoming and Unbecoming of an individual, wherein an individual passes through the socio pragmatic as well as aesthetico spiritual realm of realities. In the conduit of aforementioned realities, an individual passes through a number of emotions, sentiments and feelings which in turn shape the epistemic texture of the character. The problem that confronts a critic is to find out how in a work of art, an emotion is depicted, suggested and how it is finally communicated to the reader. In the realm of Indian aesthetics, the key to any analysis of aesthetic transformation is the theory of Rasa. The Rasa Theory essentially deals with various kinds of emotions and how they are depicted, inferred and transmitted through a work of art. Thus, the present paper shall take into account philosophical underpinnings of Rasa Theory in order to analyze the given novel. Keywords Indian aesthetics, Rasa theory, Bildungsroman. Madhurantika Sunil "Application of Rasa Theory in James Joyces a Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-3 | Issue-1 , December 2018, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd18998.pdf Paper URL: http://www.ijtsrd.com/humanities-and-the-arts/english/18998/application-of-rasa-theory-in-james-joyce’s-a-portrait-of-the-artist-as-a-young-man/madhurantika-sunil

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ABSTRACT The synchronic and diachronic study of literature explicate that literature is essentially about life and emotions thus it has timeless appeal meaning thereby that there is something in a literary work that transcends time and space. Readers of different countries, culture, religions, ideologies, passions and prejudices do appreciate and relish literature of altogether a different place as it provides aesthetic enjoyment to them. A close conspicuous analysis of the available literature may expound the fact that the most fascinating area of intersection between Indian and Western literature is to be found in the realm poetics and aesthetics. James joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Manis an example of German philosophy of Bildungsroman which deals with the formation of an artist, it traces the journey of Being, Becoming and Unbecoming of an individual, wherean individual passes through the sociowell as aesthetico-spiritual realm of realities. In the conduit of aforementioned realities, an individual passes through a number of emotions, sentiments and feelings which in turn shape the epistemicthe character. The problem that confronts a critic is to find out how in a work of art, an emotion is depicted, suggested and how it is finally communicated to the reader. In the realm of Indian aesthetics, the key to any analysis of aesthetic transformation is the theory of Rasa. The Rasa Theory essentially deals with various kinds of emotions and how they are depicted, inferred and transmitted through a work of art. Thus, the present paper shall take into account philosophical underpinnings of Rasa Theory in order to analyze the given novel. Keywords: Indian aesthetics, Rasa theory, Bildungsroman. Keywords: Indian aesthetics, Rasa theory, Bildungsroman

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f Rasa Theory in James Joyce’s a Portrait Artist as a Young Man

Madhurantika Sunil B. A. Student

Banasthali Vidyapith, Rajasthan, India

The synchronic and diachronic study of literature explicate that literature is essentially about life and

s thus it has timeless appeal meaning thereby that there is something in a literary work that transcends time and space. Readers of different countries, culture, religions, ideologies, passions and prejudices do appreciate and relish literature of

er a different place as it provides aesthetic enjoyment to them. A close conspicuous analysis of the available literature may expound the fact that the most fascinating area of intersection between Indian and Western literature is to be found in the realm of poetics and aesthetics. James joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Manis an example of German philosophy of Bildungsroman which deals with the formation of an artist, it traces the journey of Being, Becoming and Unbecoming of an individual, wherein an individual passes through the socio-pragmatic as

spiritual realm of realities. In the conduit of aforementioned realities, an individual passes through a number of emotions, sentiments and feelings which in turn shape the epistemic texture of the character. The problem that confronts a critic is to find out how in a work of art, an emotion is depicted, suggested and how it is finally communicated to the

In the realm of Indian aesthetics, the key to ransformation is the theory

of Rasa. The Rasa Theory essentially deals with various kinds of emotions and how they are depicted, inferred and transmitted through a work of art. Thus, the present paper shall take into account philosophical

Rasa Theory in order to analyze the Keywords: Indian aesthetics, Rasa

Indian aesthetics, Rasa theory,

INTRODUCTION If literature is communication of a special kind, language is the means of that communication. The language of literature is emotive and it has a feeling of content. It has a universal and timeless appeal that connects readers of different countries, cultureligion, ideologies, passions and prejudices to appreciate literature of altogether a different place as it provides aesthetic enjoyment to them. Aesthetics or The Theory of Beauty in art and literature has been one of the early pursuits of human minbeauty naturally brings in the idea of beauty and sublime. A thing of beauty is not only a joy forever, but it is an invitation to explore the reasons for joy. The most fascinating area of intersection between Indian and Western literatures, can be said to be found in the realm of poetics and aesthetics. Indian poetics is nothing but Sanskrit poetics which is an immortal encyclopedia of the theories and doctrines about poetry and drama. The development of Sanskrit poetics has been traced through its fairly long and varied course of history, which covers an extensive literature of more than one and half millennium. Sanskrit literature, where writings of a philosophical and speculative nature are bound, has been a fertile field in which many books have been written to enlighten the views of the readers on the nature scope of poetry and on the nature of poetic delight. The Indian poetics is evolved out of the dramaturgy and the oldest existing work on Indian poetics is the Natyasatra by Bharatmuni. occupies a prestigious place among the schools of Indian poetics and Bharatmuni is acknowledged to be the first exponent of Rasa systematically set forth in his treatise

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Portrait of the

If literature is communication of a special kind, language is the means of that communication. The language of literature is emotive and it has a feeling of

It has a universal and timeless appeal that connects readers of different countries, cultures, religion, ideologies, passions and prejudices to appreciate literature of altogether a different place as it provides aesthetic enjoyment to them. Aesthetics or The Theory of Beauty in art and literature has been one of the early pursuits of human mind. The idea of

rings in the idea of beauty and A thing of beauty is not only a joy forever,

but it is an invitation to explore the reasons for that

The most fascinating area of intersection between literatures, can be said to be found

in the realm of poetics and aesthetics. Indian poetics is nothing but Sanskrit poetics which is an immortal encyclopedia of the theories and doctrines about poetry and drama. The development of Sanskrit

traced through its fairly long and varied course of history, which covers an extensive literature of more than one and half millennium. Sanskrit literature, where writings of a philosophical and speculative nature are bound, has been a fertile

ich many books have been written to enlighten the views of the readers on the nature and

of poetry and on the nature of poetic delight.

The Indian poetics is evolved out of the dramaturgy and the oldest existing work on Indian poetics is the

tmuni. The Rasa siddhanta occupies a prestigious place among the schools of Indian poetics and Bharatmuni is acknowledged to be

theory which he has systematically set forth in his treatise Natayasastra.

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The Indian view of art may be said to be in the aesthetic conception of rasa. The word Rasa is the simplest and at the same time the most bewildering expression in the Sanskrit Language. The word may convey different meanings in different contexts, but its essential cunaltered. “The word’s meanings have been associated with a botanical substance, a sensory experience, an ontological , an aesthetic delight,transcending otherworldly experience”(Buchta and Schweig: 2012, 623) Rasa literally means taste, sentiment, aesthetic emotion etcetera. The Theory of Rasa essentially deals with the various kinds of emotions, how they are depicted, inferred and transferred through a work of art, it holds that finally literature is about life and its emotions.of this theory lies in that it deals with what is common to all mankind at all times- emotions. It is a theory which is considerate of the entire literary process from its very conception in the mind of the artist to its final perception in the heart of the perceiver or reader.It is a subtle state, requiring the pervasive influence of several different kinds of emotions and a host of feelings into fusion before it may be evoked. The Indian writers on poetics classified emotions into two categories i.e. lasting and incidental or transitory.There are eight lasting emotions which are (1) “love” ) (2) Hasa( “laughter” ) (3) Soka4) Krodha( “anger” ) (5) Utsaha( “ high(6) Bhaya ( “fear” ) (7) Vismaya(“astonishment” ) (8) Jugupsa( “disgust” )(Tiwary:1984, 7)Abhinavagupta has dealt with each of them elaborately in his text Abhinavaharati them in the context of Purushartha of life and bring forwards the idea of Sama,quietude or themental stage of sage which is directly related to the highest end of life, salvation, be developed into a pleasurable rasa, called Santa. Of the incidental emotions they are as many as thirtythree in number: Despondency, Weakness, Apprehension, Envy, Intoxication, Joy, Agitation, Stupor, Arrogance, Despair, Longing , Sleep, Epilepsy, Dreaming, Cruelty, Awakening, Indignation, Dissimulation, Assurance, Sickness, Insanity, Death, Fright and deliberation etcetera(Tiwary:1984, 10). The Rasas can be enumerated corresponding to their emotions as the emotion of love and the transitory feelings longing or anxiety, insanity, fever, stupor,

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iew of art may be said to be in the

is the simplest and at the same time the most bewildering expression in the Sanskrit Language. The word may convey different meanings in different contexts, but its essential core remains

nings have been a botanical substance, a sensory

, an aesthetic delight, a transcending otherworldly experience”(Buchta and

literally means taste, relish, The Theory of

essentially deals with the various kinds of emotions, how they are depicted, inferred and transferred through a work of art, it holds that finally literature is about life and its emotions. The strength of this theory lies in that it deals with what is common

emotions. It is a theory which is considerate of the entire literary process from its very conception in the mind of the artist to its final

he heart of the perceiver or reader. It is a subtle state, requiring the pervasive influence of several different kinds of emotions and a host of feelings into fusion before it may be evoked. The Indian writers on poetics classified emotions into two

gories i.e. lasting and incidental or transitory. There are eight lasting emotions which are (1) Rati(

Soka( “sorrow”) ( ( “ high-spiritdness” ) (“astonishment” ) (8)

(Tiwary:1984, 7). Abhinavagupta has dealt with each of them

and discussed of life and bring

quietude or the calm which is directly related to the

highest end of life, salvation, be developed into a

Of the incidental emotions they are as many as thirty-three in number: Despondency, Weakness,

xication, Joy, Agitation, Stupor, Arrogance, Despair, Longing , Sleep, Epilepsy, Dreaming, Cruelty, Awakening, Indignation, Dissimulation, Assurance, Sickness,

Death, Fright and deliberation

can be enumerated corresponding to their emotions as the emotion of love and the transitory feelings longing or anxiety, insanity, fever, stupor,

death are bound up with the Rasa. The high-spiritedness and the incidental feelings like assurance, contentment, arrogance and joy use the signs of the Vira and the attendant feelings if indignation, intoxication, recollection, inconstancy, envy, cruelty, and agitation occur with the Raudra Rasa or the with its accompanying states of indolence, weariness, weakness and stupor may arouse the Astonishment and the feelings of Joy, agitation, distraction and fright provoke the Rasa of wonder. The emotion of sorrow is conducto the production of Karuna Rasa pathos. Disgust and the ephemeral feelings of agitation, sickness provoke the Rasa of indignation. The emotion of fear produces the Bhayanaka Rasa or the Rasa of terror. Bhatta Lollata, Bhttanayaka, SankukaVisvanatha, Abhinavagupta and many other critics have been there who have tried to write a commentary on the rasa theory of Bharata, but the interpretation by Abhinavagupta has been acceptedwhole intellectual and aesthetic his well-known exposition, called the Natyasastra, he has delineated his concept of Rasanubhuti. He predicates that only a person, endowed with a heart with keen facuis authorized to appreciate rasa. He gives the term Sahridaya to such a person as R.S. Tiwary in his book A Critical Approach to Classical Indian Poeticsopines that, “Sensitive readers the capacity of identifying widescription in poetry because the mirror of their heart has become clear(or polished)reading and contemplation of poetry”(Tiwary26). Abhinavagupta’s unique and supreme contribution to the elucidation of Rasanbhutienunciation that the emotions reside in the Samajika’s soul in the shape of vasnas(instincts) or by reason of their being transmitted and inherited by us from birth to birth. He states that the relish of altogether novel and unique is a mental function in which the Sahridayas taste the loneliness, resulting from a contact with the Vasnas of pleasure and pain. Thus the instincts which characterize the living being fbirth. Everyone seeks pleasure, ridicules other on accounts of pride, is pained when separated from the desired objects, is angry at the causes of such

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death are bound up with the Sringara or the Erotic spiritedness and the incidental

ke assurance, contentment, arrogance and Vira or Heroic Rasa. Anger

and the attendant feelings if indignation, intoxication, recollection, inconstancy, envy, cruelty, and agitation

or the Rasa of fury. Mirth with its accompanying states of indolence, weariness, weakness and stupor may arouse the Hasya Rasa. Astonishment and the feelings of Joy, agitation, distraction and fright provoke the Adbhuta Rasa or the

of wonder. The emotion of sorrow is conducive Karuna Rasa or the Rasa of

pathos. Disgust and the ephemeral feelings of agitation, sickness provoke the Bibhasta Rasa or the

of indignation. The emotion of fear produces the of terror.

ta, Bhttanayaka, Sankuka, Mammata, and many other critics

have been there who have tried to write a commentary theory of Bharata, but the interpretation

by Abhinavagupta has been accepted by almost the whole intellectual and aesthetic tradition in India. In

known exposition, called Abhinavabharati of , he has delineated his concept of

. He predicates that only a person, endowed with a heart with keen faculty of perception is authorized to appreciate rasa. He gives the term

to such a person as R.S. Tiwary in his book A Critical Approach to Classical Indian Poetics

Sensitive readers are people who have the capacity of identifying with matter under description in poetry because the mirror of their heart has become clear(or polished) due to their repeated

d contemplation of poetry”(Tiwary:1984,

Abhinavagupta’s unique and supreme contribution to Rasanbhuti consists in his

that the emotions reside in the Samajika’s soul in the shape of vasnas(instincts) or Samskaras, by reason of their being transmitted and inherited by us from birth to birth. He states that the relish of Rasa

r novel and unique is a mental function in taste the Sthayi experiencing

loneliness, resulting from a contact with the Vasnas of Sthayis are the innate

instincts which characterize the living being from h. Everyone seeks pleasure, ridicules other on

accounts of pride, is pained when separated from the desired objects, is angry at the causes of such

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separation and wishes to abandon many things. These mental states have their traces in every human being, only some have them to a greater extent while others have them to a smaller extent. These Sthayis inherently but latently in the soul became felt and experienced under the impact of the dramatic representation or the poet’s delineation. simply the enjoyment of one’s own nature by consciousness. This experience of selfleads to a blissful stage or Anandaexperience is nothing but this AnandaAbhinavagupta, rasa is alaukika in the sense that experience of rasa, as distinct from ordinary emotional experiences, requires of the audience process of abstracting and generalizing emotional experience. Abhinavagupta makes a pertinent remark and says that “rasa is the transcendental delightful perception of one’s own nature tinged with the predominant feeling excited with the dramatic display”(Mishra: 1979) James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man(1916) is a classic example of Bildungsromanwhich deals with the formation of an artist, it traces the phenomenon of Being, Becoming and Unbecoming of an individual, wherein an individual passes through the socio-pragmatic dimension of reality which is constituted by sociocultural, political, historical, religious and linguistic realities to Aesthetico-spiritual dimension of reality which is constituted of metaphysical aspects.lexical existence of Bildungsroman is traced in its genesis in German aesthetics and literary vocabulary and ideology, and it resists a definite translation or glossing. It is generally translated and used as apprenticeship novel, novel of education, autobiographical novel, coming of age novel,however it explores and divulges the early years of a character’s life and it further traces the development of character’s emotional and spiritual life.”(2012, 32) The novel portrays the story of Stephen Dedalus from his early childhood wherein the process of interpellation and subjectivization in the epistemic reality by the invisible hands of ISAs and RSAs which in turn shape his development of selfspiritual awakening wherein he realizes the futility of materialistic world and finds himself in the world of art and aesthetics. “The odyssey of Stephen’s life from ‘once upon a time and very good time(1)to …’the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of

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separation and wishes to abandon many things. These mental states have their traces in every human being,

ly some have them to a greater extent while others Sthayis existing

inherently but latently in the soul became felt and experienced under the impact of the dramatic

. Rasa then, is simply the enjoyment of one’s own nature by consciousness. This experience of self-realization

Ananda and rasa experience is nothing but this Ananda. For

in the sense that as distinct from ordinary

emotional experiences, requires of the audience process of abstracting and generalizing emotional

makes a pertinent remark and says that “rasa is the transcendental delightful

nature tinged with the predominant feeling excited with the dramatic

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Bildungsroman

which deals with the formation of an artist, it traces Being, Becoming and

of an individual, wherein an individual pragmatic dimension of

reality which is constituted by socio-economic, cultural, political, historical, religious and linguistic

spiritual dimension of reality which is constituted of metaphysical aspects. “The

is traced in its genesis in German aesthetics and literary vocabulary

, and it resists a definite translation or is generally translated and used as

apprenticeship novel, novel of education, l, coming of age novel, etcetera,

however it explores and divulges the early years of a character’s life and it further traces the development

emotional and spiritual life.”(Mishra:

n Dedalus from his early childhood wherein the process of

in the epistemic reality by the invisible hands of ISAs and RSAs

n shape his development of self to the spiritual awakening wherein he realizes the futility of materialistic world and finds himself in the world of

sey of Stephen’s life time and very good time(1)to

eated conscience of

my race’(288) makes him to cover all wanton ways of life which is fallacious in nature. He begins his journey from a tabula rasa state ends with a realization that he has been constructed and subjectivized by the confounding and surreptitious elements of nationality, language and religion of which he wants to get rid of, as he says” you talk to me of nationality, langushall try to fly by those nets”(231).Stephen makes an attempt to attain meaning in life by making a gradual yet a very significant move into the world of aesthetics and art. He does this remarkable movement into the world of art and aesthetics because it provides one with both the form and content, the form is the beauty and the content isbeauty.”(Mishra: 2012, 39) The life of the protagonist of the novel Stephen Dedalus is characterized by a number of major and minor events which in turn shape the development of the character leading up to the realization of the state of bliss. Emotions are the chief constituents of a literary experiences. They play an important role in the realization of Rasa. The whole life of the protagonist constituted by experiences culminates into different emotions thus resulting into different One of the instances that we see in the novelStephen has been left by his parents in his school, and mothers has tears in his eyes , separation is there, thus we could see Karuna Rasa, anothersee is when Stephen goes to the rector in order to complain about the injustice done to him by a teacher, which is a heroic stage in his life, it is here for ttime that he takes the stand for himself for the first time, thus presenting the Vira RasaFurther, we see that he has been bullied by the senior boys of the school, who are rough in attitude and he feels afraid of them thus giving Bhayanaka Rasa. Furthermore, we see his affairs or sexual encounters, one debasing, and another exalting, where he is experiencing Rasa. For the realization of the feeling that has to be stabilizedcalm. This is an affection caused by one’s true knowledge, of ones’s own pure infinite universal self. This is what we see at the end of the novel, where the protagonist articulates, “Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race”(Joyce:1916, 288).

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) makes him to cover all wanton ways of life which is fallacious in nature. He begins his

state of mind and finally ends with a realization that he has been constructed and subjectivized by the confounding and surreptitious elements of nationality, language and religion of which he wants to get rid of, as he says” you talk to me of nationality, language and religion. I shall try to fly by those nets”(231).Stephen makes an attempt to attain meaning in life by making a gradual yet a very significant move into the world of aesthetics and art. He does this remarkable movement

sthetics because it provides one with both the form and content, the form is the beauty and the content is the truth of the

The life of the protagonist of the novel Stephen is characterized by a number of major and

events which in turn shape the development of the character leading up to the realization of the state

Emotions are the chief constituents of a literary experiences. They play an important role in

The whole life of the protagonist constituted by experiences culminates into different emotions thus resulting into different Rasas. One of the instances that we see in the novel, is when Stephen has been left by his parents in his school, and

tears in his eyes , separation is there, thus another instance that we

see is when Stephen goes to the rector in order to complain about the injustice done to him by a teacher, which is a heroic stage in his life, it is here for the first time that he takes the stand for himself for the first

Vira Rasa at the moment. Further, we see that he has been bullied by the senior boys of the school, who are rough in attitude and he feels afraid of them thus giving us the portrayal of

Furthermore, we see his two love affairs or sexual encounters, one debasing, and another exalting, where he is experiencing Sringara

For the realization of the Santa Rasa the basic feeling that has to be stabilized is that of spiritual calm. This is an affection caused by one’s true knowledge, of ones’s own pure infinite universal self. This is what we see at the end of the novel, where the

, “Welcome, O life! I go to th time the reality of

experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race”(Joyce:1916, 288).

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