Tamil love poetry : the five hundred short poems of Aiṅkuru̲nūru̲, an early third-century anthology /
Dating from the early decades of the third century C.E., the Ainkurunuru is believed to be the earliest anthology of classical Tamil love poetry and known to be a work of enduring importance. Commissioned by a Cera-dynasty king and composed by five masterful poets, the anthology renders the five lan...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés Tamil |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
2011.
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Colección: | Translations from the Asian classics.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Dating from the early decades of the third century C.E., the Ainkurunuru is believed to be the earliest anthology of classical Tamil love poetry and known to be a work of enduring importance. Commissioned by a Cera-dynasty king and composed by five masterful poets, the anthology renders the five landscapes of reciprocal love distinctive to the genre: jealous quarreling, anxious waiting and lamentation, clandestine love before marriage, elopement and love in separation, and patient waiting after marriage. Despite its centrality to literary and intellectual traditions, the Ainkurunur. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 200 pages). |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780231521581 0231521588 0231150644 9780231150644 0231150652 9780231150651 |