T. Wignesan (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - retired)

updated: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 13:58:55 EDT

Dr. T. Wignesan
retired from Center National de la Recherche Scientifique
(Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales), July 1998

Docteur d'Etat dès lettres et sciences humaines (specialty: aesthetics),
Université de Paris-l-Panthéon-Sorbonne

mailing address:

Editor: The Asianists' Asia
Centre de Recherche sur les Etudes Asiatiques
5, Boulevard Pablo Picasso
94000 Créteil (Paris),
France

phone: 33/1-42-07-25-17
email: Wignesh@aol.com
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       http://members.aol.com/wignesh
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Description of work:

Poietics - which is the "science and philosophy of creation".

Comparative literature: English, Spanish, Malay, Tamil (subsidiarily
French and German)

Regional sub-disciplines:
Malaysia and Singapore (Malay/Tamil/English)
India and Sri Lanka (Tamil/English)

Historical periods: classical and contemporary (mainly poetry and poetics).
Generally, literary theory and asthetics (poietics), the Yijing (The Canon
of Change), and Asian Studies.