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Sensitive reading : the pleasures of South Asian literature in translation /

"What are the pleasures of reading translations of South Asian literature and what does it take to enjoy them? This volume explores these questions by bringing together a whole set of new translations by David Shulman, noted scholar of South Asia. The translated selections come from a variety o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bronner, Yigal (Editor ), Hallisey, Charles, 1953- (Editor ), Shulman, David Dean, 1949- (Traductor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Yigal Bronner and Charles Hallisey
  • Shriharsha's Sanskrit Life of Naishadha : translator's note and text
  • Points and progression : how to read Shriharsha's Life of Naishadha / Gary Tubb
  • "If I'm reading you right..." : reading bodies, minds and poetry in the Life of Naishadha / Thibaut d'Hubert
  • Ativirarama Pandyan's Tamil Life of Naidatha : translator's note and text
  • Hearing and madness : reading Ativirarama Pandyan's Life of Naidatha / N. Govindarajan
  • How we read / Sheldon Pollock
  • Malamangala Kavi's Malalyalam Naishadha in our language : translator's note and text
  • I talk to the wind : Malamangala Kavi's Naishadha in our language / Sivan Goren-Arzony
  • In the garden of love : an essay on Naishadha in our language / Meir Shahar
  • "Khwaja the Dog-Worshiper" from The story of the four dervishes : translator's note and text
  • How not to see a dog-worshiper / Jamal Jones
  • A historian reads a fable / Muzaffar Alam
  • "Touch" by Abburi Chayadevi : translator's note and text
  • How to touch "Touch" / Gautham Reddy
  • "Don't stand so close to me!" : remarks on Chayadevi's "Touch" / Sanjay Subrahmanyam
  • "A street pump in Anantapuram" and five other poems by Ismail : translator's note and text
  • Speaking of landscapes, revolutionaries, and donkeys : Ismail's words and images / Afsar Mohammad
  • Between sky and road : the wandering scholar, modernism and the poetry of Ismail / Gabriel Levin
  • The music contest from Tiruttakkatevar's Tamil Chivakan's gem : translator's note and text
  • Love in defeat / Talia Arlav
  • Sweetness that melts the heart / Kesavan Veluthat
  • What's gained in translation / Sonam Kachru
  • Two songs by Muttuswami Dikshitar performed by T.M. Krishna and Eileen Shulman : translator's note, texts, and recordings
  • Beyond passion, beyond even the Raga / T.M. Krishna
  • Reading as an act of trust / Donald R. Davis
  • Desire and passion ride to war (unknown artist) : selector's note
  • Pillars of love : a dialogic reading of temple sculpture / Anna Lise Seastrand
  • Side observation of a small portion of Varadaraja-svami Temple / Tawfiq Da'adli
  • Ravana visits Sita at night in the Ashoka Grove, from Kamban's Tamil Ramayana : translator's note and text
  • Kamban's Tamil as a kind of Sanskrit / Whitney Cox
  • Can darkness stand before light? : encountering an episode from a medieval Tamil masterpiece / Yehoshua Granat
  • When a mountain rapes a river, from Bhattumurti's Telugu Vasu's Life : translator's note and text
  • Irreconcilable differences and (un)conventional love in Bhattumurti's Vasu's Life / Ilanit Loewy Schacham
  • Desire, perception, and the poetry of desire : a reading of Vasu's life / Deven Patel
  • "The ten on the wild boar" : translator's note and text
  • Reading "Ten on the wild boar" / Archana Venkatesan
  • Three poems about love's inner modes : translator's note and text
  • Between us : reading Tamil Akam poems / Jennifer Clare
  • The unbaked clay pot in pouring rain : reading Sangam poetry today / R. Cheran
  • Nammalvar's Tamil A hundred measures of time : translator's note and text
  • "You came so that we may live" / Anand Venkatkrishnan
  • Taking the measure of A hundred measures / Andrew Ollett
  • A Persian Ghazal by Hafez and an Urdu Ghazal by Ghaleb : translator's note and text
  • How a Ghazal thinks / Rajeev Kinra
  • The Ghazal of What's more than real / Peter Cole
  • Afterword / Wendy Doniger.