Papers presented at the Seminar on Indian and Western Poetics at work, Dhvanyaloka, Mysore, January 1991.

The papers brought together in this volume were presented at a seminar organised in January 1991 under the joint auspices of the Sahitya Akademi and the literary criterion centre, Dvanyaloka, Mysore. In collaboration with the Indian association of commonwealth literature. Several scholarly papers were presented at the seminar on the Indian concept of natya, dhvani, aucitya and alankara. Erudite scholars from all parts of the country took part. This seminar represents the third phase of the interaction between Indian and western critical endeavours. Sahitya Akademi is happy to bring out these papers in book-form for the benefit of discerning scholars, academics and general readers.