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Epic, lyric, and drama have perennially figured as the fundamental genres of literature. Since each can be characterized in terms of a distinctive form of speech, of which wordsmiths can always avail, literary art seems inveterately to have them all at its disposal, whatever be the worldview seeking expression.
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For a more sustained critique of the foundationalism of the mimetic and transcendental approaches to aesthetics, see Richard Dien Winfield, Systematic Aesthetics (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1995), pp. 15–57.
G. W. F. Hegel, Aesthetics: Lectures on Fine Art, trans. T. M. Knox (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), p. 1205.
Hegel discusses these points in On the Episode of the Mahābhārat Known by the name Bhagavad-Gītā by Wilhelm von Humboldt, ed. and trans. Herbert Herring (New Delhi: Indian Council of Philosophical Research, 1995), pp. 46 ff.
For a helpful discussion on how the respective political pragmatisms of Kautilya and Machiavelli rest on very different bases, see B. N. Ray’s Tradition and Innovation in Indian Political Thought (Delhi: Ajanta Books International, 1998), pp. 94–105.
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Winfield, R.D. (2014). Literary Form and Civilization. In: Hegel and the Future of Systematic Philosophy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137442383_13
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