Ananta Charan Sukla
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Prof. Ananta Charan Sukla | |
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| Born | 6 November 1942 |
| 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, and 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 publications include "Fiction and Art: Explorations in Contemporary Theory" (Oct 2015) published by Bloomsbury Publishing (London); "Art and Representation" (2001), "Art and Experience" (2002) and "Art and Essence" (2003), all published by the Greenwood Publishing Group (Praeger Publishers), Westport, Connecticut; "Art and Expression" (2011), published by Verlag Trougott Bautz GmbH; "Estetica Indiana Contemporanea" (1992) and "The Concept of Imitation in Greek and Indian Aesthetics" (1977), published by Rupa & Co, Calcutta. Sukla has translated Aristotle's Poetics into Oriya (Aristotle-anka Kabya Tatwa), adding commentary, critical study, and notes. He has also produced an Oriya translation (with commentary) of four Greek Dramas, Prometheus Bound (Aeschylus), Oedipus the King (Sophocles), Medea (Euripides) and The Frogs (Aristophanes).
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
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