Wisdom of Poets Studies in Tamil, Telugu, and Sanskrit

Name: Wisdom of Poets Studies in Tamil, Telugu, and Sanskrit
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ISBN: 9780195652376

ISBN-10: 0195652371

ISBN-13: 9780195652376

Edition: 2001

Authors: David Shulman

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The classical literatures of Sanskrit, Tamil, and Telugu are among the richest in the world. These essays explore major issues and themes in the poetry and poetics of these three literatures, focusing on the role of the poet as making present an experience of the divine, and addressing the problem of the self and its processes of disintegration, disguise, and recomposition.

Book details

List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/29/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 384
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 1.320

Velcheru Narayana Rao is Visiting Distinguished Professor of South Asian Studies at Emory University.David Shulman is Renee Lang Professor of Humanistic Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.



Introduction



Authority, Structure, Voice



Toward a Historical Poetics of the Sanskrit Epics



The Yaksa's Questions



Poets and Patrons in Tamil Literature and Literary Legend



From Author to Non-Author in Tamil Literary Legend



Selves, Membered and Remembered



On Being Human in the Sanskrit Epic: The Riddle of Nala



Embracing the Subject: Harsa's Play within a Play



The Prospects of Memory



Dreaming the Self in South India



Metaphysics of Presence



Bhavabhuti on Cruelty and Compassion



Fire and Flood: The Testing of Sita in Kampan's Iramavataram



First Man, Forest Mother: Telugu Humanism in the Age of Krsnadevaraya



Does God Have Moods?