THE AESTHETICS OF AUTHORITY: EMOTIONS, DEVOTION AND POWER IN THE ...

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THE AESTHETICS OF AUTHORITY: EMOTIONS, DEVOTION AND POWER IN THE SINHALA BUDDHIST LITERATURE OF MEDIEVAL SRI LANKA A Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Cornell University In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts by Justin Wesley Henry January 2009

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• aesthetics of authority
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