Innovations and turning points : toward a history of kavya literature / edited by Yigal Bronner, David Shulman, Gary Tubb.

Material type: TextTextSeries: South Asia research (New York, N.Y.)Publication details: New Delhi, India : Oxford University Press, [2014] ©2014Edition: First editionDescription: xv, 805 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmISBN: 9780199453559 (hbk.); 0199453551 (hbk.)Other title: Toward a history of kavya literatureSubject(s): Sanskrit literature -- History and criticism | South Asian literature -- History and criticismDDC classification: 891.21009
Contents:
Acknowledgements ; Introduction: Yigal Bronner, David Shulman, Gary Tubb ; I. KALIDASA AND EARLY CLASSICISM ; 1. Waking Aja: David Shulman ; 2. Baking Uma: Gary Tubb ; 3. On Beginnings: Introductions and Prefaces in Kavya: Herman Tieken ; II. THE DEVELOPING MAHAKAVYA ; 4. Pace and Pattern in the Kiratarjuniya Peter Khoroche ; 5. The Conquest of Cool: Theology and Aesthetics in Magha's Sisupalavadha: Lawrence McCrea ; 6. Kavya with Bells On: Yamaka in the Sisupalavadha: Gary Tubb ; 7. A Constant Flow of Pilgrims: Kavya and the Early History of the Kakawin:Tom Hunter ; III. THE MASTERS OF PROSE ; 8. The Nail-Mark That Lit the Bedroom: Biography of a Compound: Yigal Bronner ; 9. Bana's Death in the Kadambari: Herman Tieken ; 10. Persons Compounded and Confounded: A Reading of Bana's Kadambari: David Shulman ; 11. On Bana's Boldness: Gary Tubb ; IV. THE SONS OF BANA ; 12. Something New in the Air: Abhinanda's Ramacarita and Its Ancestry: Gary Tubb ; 13. "The Plays of Bhavabhuti": Gary Tubb ; 14. The Poetics of Perspective in Rajasekhara's Young Ramayana: Lawrence McCrea ; 15. Murari's Depths: David Shulman ; V. POETS OF THE NEW MILLENNIUM ; 16. The Poetics of Ambivalence: Imagining and Unimagining the Political in Bilhana's Vikramankadevacarita: Yigal Bronner ; 17. Putting the Polish on the Poet's Efforts: Reading the Karnasundari as a Reflection on Poetic Creativity: Phyllis Granoff ; 18. Shadows: Charles Malamoud ; 19. Indian Kavya Poetry on the Far Side of the Himalayas: Translation, Transmission, Adaptation, Originality: Dan Martin ; VI. REGIONAL KAVYAS ; 20. Sakalya Malla's Telangana Ramaya?a: The Udara-Raghava: David Shulman ; 21. The Classical Past in the Mughal Present: The Brajbhasha Riti Tradition: Allison Busch ; 22. Poetry and Play in Kavikarnapura's Play within the Play: Gary Tubb ; 23. Modernity in Sanskrit Viswanatha Satyanarayana's Amrta-sarmistam Velcheru Narayana Rao ; 24. A Distant Mirror: Innovation and Change in the East Javanese Kakawin; Tom Hunter ; 25. Notes on Contributors ; Index
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Includes passages in Sanskrit (roman); with English translation.

Acknowledgements ; Introduction: Yigal Bronner, David Shulman, Gary Tubb ; I. KALIDASA AND EARLY CLASSICISM ; 1. Waking Aja: David Shulman ; 2. Baking Uma: Gary Tubb ; 3. On Beginnings: Introductions and Prefaces in Kavya: Herman Tieken ; II. THE DEVELOPING MAHAKAVYA ; 4. Pace and Pattern in the Kiratarjuniya Peter Khoroche ; 5. The Conquest of Cool: Theology and Aesthetics in Magha's Sisupalavadha: Lawrence McCrea ; 6. Kavya with Bells On: Yamaka in the Sisupalavadha: Gary Tubb ; 7. A Constant Flow of Pilgrims: Kavya and the Early History of the Kakawin:Tom Hunter ; III. THE MASTERS OF PROSE ; 8. The Nail-Mark That Lit the Bedroom: Biography of a Compound: Yigal Bronner ; 9. Bana's Death in the Kadambari: Herman Tieken ; 10. Persons Compounded and Confounded: A Reading of Bana's Kadambari: David Shulman ; 11. On Bana's Boldness: Gary Tubb ; IV. THE SONS OF BANA ; 12. Something New in the Air: Abhinanda's Ramacarita and Its Ancestry: Gary Tubb ; 13. "The Plays of Bhavabhuti": Gary Tubb ; 14. The Poetics of Perspective in Rajasekhara's Young Ramayana: Lawrence McCrea ; 15. Murari's Depths: David Shulman ; V. POETS OF THE NEW MILLENNIUM ; 16. The Poetics of Ambivalence: Imagining and Unimagining the Political in Bilhana's Vikramankadevacarita: Yigal Bronner ; 17. Putting the Polish on the Poet's Efforts: Reading the Karnasundari as a Reflection on Poetic Creativity: Phyllis Granoff ; 18. Shadows: Charles Malamoud ; 19. Indian Kavya Poetry on the Far Side of the Himalayas: Translation, Transmission, Adaptation, Originality: Dan Martin ; VI. REGIONAL KAVYAS ; 20. Sakalya Malla's Telangana Ramaya?a: The Udara-Raghava: David Shulman ; 21. The Classical Past in the Mughal Present: The Brajbhasha Riti Tradition: Allison Busch ; 22. Poetry and Play in Kavikarnapura's Play within the Play: Gary Tubb ; 23. Modernity in Sanskrit Viswanatha Satyanarayana's Amrta-sarmistam Velcheru Narayana Rao ; 24. A Distant Mirror: Innovation and Change in the East Javanese Kakawin; Tom Hunter ; 25. Notes on Contributors ; Index

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