Innovations and Turning Points
Toward A History of Kavya Literaure
Price: 1895.00 INR
ISBN:
9780199453559
Publication date:
03/11/2014
Hardback
824 pages
247.0x175.0mm
Price: 1895.00 INR
ISBN:
9780199453559
Publication date:
03/11/2014
Hardback
824 pages
247.0x175.0mm
Gary Tubb, Yigal Bronner & David Shulman
This volume is the first attempt to offer a panoramic historical overview of South Asian classical poetry, especially in Sanskrit. Many of the essays in this volume are the first serious studies of the great masterpieces of South Asian literature. Moreover, the book as a whole captures the millennium-long developmental logic of this literature by identifying a series of critical moments of breakthrough and innovation, allowing the tradition to reinvent itself.
Suitable for: This book will be of considerable interest to scholars and students of South Asian history, literary studies, cultural studies, and religious history.
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Gary Tubb, Yigal Bronner & David Shulman
Description
With a panoramic overview of South Asian classical literature, this book identifies critical moments of breakthrough and innovation in Sanskrit literature—moments when the basic rules of composition and the aesthetic and poetic goals underwent dramatic change. It contests the still prevalent notion that Sanskrit poetry was impervious to change and that it underwent decline after a supposed acme in the period of Kalidasa. The essays in this volume focus on extended moments of brilliant innovation within the kavya tradition, including the new poetic models put in place by Bharavi and Magha, the revolutionary period in Kannauj linked to Ba?a, his predecessors and his great successors, and the transformative work of poets of genius such as Bilha?a, Srihar?a, Rajasekhara, and Murari. It also examines the origins of kavya and the creative experiments with its forms and practices in early modern Hindi and, beyond the subcontinent, in Java and Tibet.
Gary Tubb, Yigal Bronner & David Shulman
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Gary Tubb, Yigal Bronner & David Shulman
Gary Tubb, Yigal Bronner & David Shulman
Description
With a panoramic overview of South Asian classical literature, this book identifies critical moments of breakthrough and innovation in Sanskrit literature—moments when the basic rules of composition and the aesthetic and poetic goals underwent dramatic change. It contests the still prevalent notion that Sanskrit poetry was impervious to change and that it underwent decline after a supposed acme in the period of Kalidasa. The essays in this volume focus on extended moments of brilliant innovation within the kavya tradition, including the new poetic models put in place by Bharavi and Magha, the revolutionary period in Kannauj linked to Ba?a, his predecessors and his great successors, and the transformative work of poets of genius such as Bilha?a, Srihar?a, Rajasekhara, and Murari. It also examines the origins of kavya and the creative experiments with its forms and practices in early modern Hindi and, beyond the subcontinent, in Java and Tibet.
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