Rhetoric Studies
This group strives to engage with the multi-model and trans-disciplinary nature of Rhetoric to explore the theoretical, historical and cultural dimensions of literary interpretation and criticism. The agenda of rhetorical enquiry in South Asia becomes all the more relevant with a long-standing tradition of tarka and discursive debates on the one hand, and the multicultural societies at the fringes experiencing fundamental changes on the other. The aim of the group is to understand rhetorical sensibility as an effective aid in tracing the process through which social groups construct meanings and identities, coordinate behaviours and mediate power to create their knowledge systems and productions of change.
Research Group Coordinator: Charulika Dhawan
Events:
Lectures:
Webinar 1 – Reasoning isn’t Occidental: A Comparative Hindu Approach by Dr. Keith Lloyd (02-03-2021, 7:30 PM(IST))
Webinar 2 – Comparative Rhetoric: Recovering, Describing, and Welcoming Local, Regional, and Indigenous Communicative Practices by Dr. Keith Lloyd (23-03-2021, 7:30 PM(IST))
Webinar 3 – Comparative and Cultural Rhetoric(s) Reconfigured: Turtles, Biases, Globalized Epistemologies by Prof. LuMing Mao ( 28-06-2021, 8 PM(IST))
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CALL FOR PAPERS (Intermediality in Indian Literary Cultures)
We invite papers addressing the issues raised here and on the topics suggested relating to intermediality.
WEBSITE LAUNCH
Delhi Comparatists website launched.
12th August 2021
JOURNAL (VOL 1, ISSUE 1)
Delhi Journal of Comparative Studies is an online, peer-reviewed, full text, bi-annual journal with open access in the field of comparative literature and cultural studies in their various forms in the Indian context.
Ongoing Projects
- Covid 19 Muslim Response Research
- Covid-19 Cultural Response Book
- Covid-19 Cultural Response Archive
- Reception of Kazi Nazrul Islam in Indian Literatures
- Multilingual Translation of Kazi Nazrul Islam
- Comparative Literature in India Archive
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