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Extreme poetry : the South Asian movement of simultaneous narration /

Beginning in the sixth century C.E. and continuing for more than a thousand years, an extraordinary poetic practice was the trademark of a major literary movement in South Asia. Authors invented a special language to depict both the apparent and hidden sides of disguised or dual characters, and then...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bronner, Yigal
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, 2010.
Colección:South Asia across the disciplines.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures and Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • A Note on Sanskrit Transliteration
  • 1. INTRODUCTION
  • 2. EXPERIMENTING WITH ŚLESA IN SUBANDHU'S PROSE LAB
  • 3. THE DISGUISE OF LANGUAGE
  • 4. AIMING AT TWO TARGETS
  • 5. BRINGING THE GANGES TO THE OCEAN
  • 6. ŚLESA AS READING PRACTICE
  • 7. THEORIES OF ŚLESA IN SANSKRIT POETICS
  • 8. TOWARD A THEORY OF ŚLEŞA
  • Appendix 1: Bitextual and Multitextual Works in Sanskrit
  • Appendix 2: Bitextual and Multitextual Works in Telugu
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index