Ananta Charan Sukla
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Ananta Charan Sukla | |
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| Born | 6 November 1942 |
| Education | Bhadrak College, Jadavpur University, Utkal University |
| Occupation(s) | Writer, Researcher, Academician, Aesthetician, Philosopher of art, religion and language, Comparative literary scholar |
| 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 an eminent philosopher of art, religion and language. He is a noted academician, aesthetician, and a scholar and researcher in comparative literature and literary criticism. He is also a poet, playwright, short story writer and translator. He is a former professor of English and Comparative Literature at Sambalpur University, Sambalpur, Odisha.
He is a noted alumni of Jadavpur University, Calcutta. He holds masters degrees in English, Philosophy as well as in Sanskrit from Jadavpur University, Calcutta and Utkal University, Bhubaneswar. His doctoral thesis, The Concept of Imitation in Greek and Indian Aesthetics submitted to Jadavpur University and published by Rupa & Co., Calcutta in 1977 is a seminal work.
He 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. He is also the founder of a research centre named Vishvanatha Kaviraja Institute of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics, established in 1977.
He has been a Visiting Professor to the Universities of Liverpool, Cambridge, Cardff, Lampeter, Uppsala, Siena, Helsinki and several Indian Universities and has lectured on aspects of Indian aesthetics vis-a-vis Western aesthetics. He has addressed several international conferences on Comparative Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art as Plenary Speaker/Chairman at Lahti (Finland), Bologna (Italy) and other venues. He is an honorary member of the LORO Group of Studies in Comparative Aesthetics, Italy. He has also published numerous scholarly papers in many international journals of repute.
His notable publications in English include Art and Representation (2001), Art and Experience (2002) and Art and Essence (2003), all published by Praeger, Art and Expression (2011), published by Verlag Trougott Bautz GmbH, Fiction and Art: Explorations in Contemporary Theory (2015) published by Bloomsbury Publishing (London), Estetica Indiana Contemporanea (Contemporary Indian Aesthetics) published by Rubberttino (Italy) in 1995, Representation in Contemporary Criticism (Calcutta: Rupa & Co, 1989), Deconstruction in Contemporary Criticism (Calcutta: Rupa & Co, 1989), and The Concept of Imitation in Greek and Indian Aesthetics (Calcutta, Rupa & Co, 1977).
His works in Oriya fiction include two short story books, Sulataku Sesa Chitthi (Last Letter to Sulata) and Shatabdira Shabda (Sound of the Century), two poetry books, Manapatra (Citation) and Nihshabda Asavari (The Silent Raga), and four plays on Kabi Bansiballabha, Kabi Nandakishore, Jayee Rajguru and Chaki Khuntia.
His translation works in Oriya include Aristotle-nka Kabya Tatwa (Aristotle's Poetics with commentary, critical study and notes); Greek Nataka (Greek Dramas of Aeschylus's 'Prometheus Bound', Sophocles's 'Oedipus the King', Euripides's 'Medea' and Aristophanes's 'The Frogs' with commentary and critical study); Jagannath Chakraborty-nka Kabita (Poems of Jagannath Chakraborty); and selected 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.
The Kendriya Sahitya Akademi (National Academy of Letters), Delhi has published his monographs on medieval philosopher of religion, Sridhara Svami and medieval Sanskrit poetician and grammarian, Viswanatha Kaviraja under the Makers of Indian Literature series.
References
- https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/fiction-and-art-9781472575043/
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