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Author_Lee A. Siegel
captivating immersion
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contemporary India
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historical accounts
literary texts
philosophical traditions
scholarship
Product details
- ISBN 9789360801496
- Weight: 700g
- Dimensions: 160 x 230mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jun 2025
- Publisher: Manohar Publishers and Distributors
- Publication City/Country: IN
- Product Form: Hardback
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This unorthodox book is more than a story; it blends scholarship, fantasy, travelogue, and autobiography—fusing and overlapping historical accounts and newscasts, literary texts and films, dreams and nocturnal tales. Siegel uses imagination to explore the relation of real terror to horror fiction and to contemplate the ways fear and disgust become thrilling elements in stories of the macabre. This book is the product of Siegel’s deep knowledge of both Indian and Western literary and philosophical traditions. It is also an attempt to come to grips with the omnipresence of political and religious terror in contemporary India.
Lee A. Siegel (born 1945, Los Angeles, California) is a novelist and professor of religion. He studied comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley, and fine arts at Columbia University.
