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Sukla is a noted alumni of [[Jadavpur University]], [[Calcutta]], India. He holds masters degrees in English, Philosophy as well as in Sanskrit. He is a doctorate in Comparative Literature from Jadavpur University, Calcutta. His doctoral thesis, ''The Concept of Imitation in Greek and Indian Aesthetics'', published by Rupa & Co., Calcutta in 1977 is a path-breaking work. |
Sukla is a noted alumni of [[Jadavpur University]], [[Calcutta]], India. He holds masters degrees in English, Philosophy as well as in Sanskrit. He is a doctorate in Comparative Literature from Jadavpur University, Calcutta. His doctoral thesis, ''The Concept of Imitation in Greek and Indian Aesthetics'', published by Rupa & Co., Calcutta in 1977 is a path-breaking work. |
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Sukla is the founding editor of the international half-yearly |
Sukla is the founding editor of the international half-yearly Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics, published since 1978. The journal aims at promotion of multidisciplinary studies and research in literary culture.<ref>{{cite web|title=Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics (JCLA)|url=http://jclaonline.org/}}</ref> He is also the founder of Vishvanatha Kaviraja Institute of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics. |
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Sukla has been a Visiting Professor at the Universities of [[University of Liverpool|Liverpool]], [[Cambridge University|Cambridge]], [[University of Cardiff|Cardiff]], [[Lampeter University|Lampeter]], [[University of Uppsala|Uppsala]] ([[Sweden]]), [[University of Siena|Siena]] ([[Italy]]) and [[University of Helsinki|Helsinki]] ([[Finland]]) as well as several Indian Universities. He is an honorary member of the LORO Group of Studies in Comparative Aesthetics, Italy. |
Sukla has been a Visiting Professor at the Universities of [[University of Liverpool|Liverpool]], [[Cambridge University|Cambridge]], [[University of Cardiff|Cardiff]], [[Lampeter University|Lampeter]], [[University of Uppsala|Uppsala]] ([[Sweden]]), [[University of Siena|Siena]] ([[Italy]]) and [[University of Helsinki|Helsinki]] ([[Finland]]) as well as several Indian Universities. He is an honorary member of the LORO Group of Studies in Comparative Aesthetics, Italy. |
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Prof. Ananta Charan Sukla | |
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Born | |
Nationality | Indian |
Education | Bhadrak College, Jadavpur University |
Occupation(s) | Writer, Academician, Aesthetician, Researcher, Philosopher of art, religion and language, Comparative literary scholar |
Employer(s) | Sambalpur University, Sambalpur, Odisha (Former Professor of English) |
Known for | Comparative Literature, Aesthetics, Literary Criticism, Philosophy, Sanskrit Studies |
Spouse(s) | Prof. Indulata Sukla, Former Professor of Mathematics, Sambalpur University, Sambalpur |
Professor Ananta Charan Sukla (also Ananta Ch. Sukla) is a philosopher of art, religion and language, poet, playwright, short story writer, translator, and an eminent scholar and researcher on comparative literature and aesthetics. Sukla is a former professor of English and Comparative Literature at Sambalpur University, Sambalpur, Odisha, India.
Sukla is a noted alumni of Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India. He holds masters degrees in English, Philosophy as well as in Sanskrit. He is a doctorate in Comparative Literature from Jadavpur University, Calcutta. His doctoral thesis, The Concept of Imitation in Greek and Indian Aesthetics, published by Rupa & Co., Calcutta in 1977 is a path-breaking work.
Sukla is the founding editor of the international half-yearly Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics, published since 1978. The journal aims at promotion of multidisciplinary studies and research in literary culture.[1] He is also the founder of Vishvanatha Kaviraja Institute of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics.
Sukla has been a Visiting Professor at the Universities of Liverpool, Cambridge, Cardiff, Lampeter, Uppsala (Sweden), Siena (Italy) and Helsinki (Finland) as well as several Indian Universities. He is an honorary member of the LORO Group of Studies in Comparative Aesthetics, Italy.
His notable publications include "Art and Representation" (2001), "Art and Experience" (2002) and "Art and Essence" (2003), all published by the Greenwood Publishing Group (Praeger Publishers), Westport, Connecticut; "Fiction and Art: Explorations in Contemporary Theory" (Oct 2015) published by Bloomsbury Publishing (London); "Art and Expression" (2011), published by Verlag Trougott Bautz GmbH; "Estetica Indiana Contemporanea" (1992) published from Italy and "The Concept of Imitation in Greek and Indian Aesthetics" (1977), published by Rupa & Co, Calcutta. Sukla has translated Aristotle's Poetics into Odia (Aristotle-anka Kabya Tatwa), adding commentary, critical study, and notes. He has also published an Odia translation (with commentary) of four Greek Dramas, Prometheus Bound (Aeschylus), Oedipus the King (Sophocles), Medea (Euripides) and The Frogs (Aristophanes). Some of these translated plays have been staged in the state of Odisha.
His works on Oriya fiction include two short story books, "Sulataku Sesa Chitthi (Last Letter to Sulata)" and "Shatabdira Shabda (Sound of the Century)", and three poetry books "Jagannath Chakraborty-nka Kabita (Poems of Jagannath Chakraborty)", "Manapatra (Citation)" and "Nihshabda Asavari (The Silent Raga)"
Sukla has lectured on aspects of Indian Aesthetics vis-a-vis Western Aesthetics in many European Universities such as Lampeter, Cardiff, Liverpool, Sienna and Helsinki. He has addressed several international conferences on Comparative Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art as Plenary Speaker/Chairman at Lahti (Finland), Bologna (Italy) and other places. He has written monographs on renowned medieval philosopher of religion Sridhara Svami and medieval Sanskrit poetician and grammarian Vishvanatha Kaviraja, both published by the Kendriya Sahitya Akademi, Delhi, India.
He has also done the Oriya translations of songs of Rabindranath Tagore (Rabindra Sangeet) and Bhupen Hazarika (Bhupendra Sangeet) from Bengali and Assamese respectively. His Oriya versions have been recorded and released in the form of music albums.[2]
References
- ^ "Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics (JCLA)".
- ^ "Now, Tagore Songs in Oriya". odisha.in. Retrieved 12 December 2014.
- http://www.contempaesthetics.org/pages/editorialboard.html
- http://www.aesthetics-online.org/reviews/index.php?reviews_id=1
- https://web.archive.org/web/20110722221803/https://www.praeger.com/catalog/C7766.aspx
- https://www.uqtr.ca/AE/vol_2/marchiano.html
- http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/philosophy_and_literature/v033/33.1.uidhir.html
- https://books.google.com/books?id=hmUu2Lye-HoC