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Extreme Poetry
Bronner, Michael; Bronner, Yigal
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Description for Extreme Poetry
Series: South Asia Across the Disciplines. Num Pages: 376 pages, 3 illus; 6 tables. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 161 x 34. Weight in Grams: 650.
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 used it to narrate India's major epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, simultaneously. Originally produced in Sanskrit, these dual narratives eventually worked their way into regional languages, especially Telugu and Tamil, and other artistic media, such as sculpture. Scholars have long dismissed simultaneous narration as a mere curiosity, if not ... Read more
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 used it to narrate India's major epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, simultaneously. Originally produced in Sanskrit, these dual narratives eventually worked their way into regional languages, especially Telugu and Tamil, and other artistic media, such as sculpture. Scholars have long dismissed simultaneous narration as a mere curiosity, if not ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
Series
South Asia Across the Disciplines
Number of Pages
376
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231151603
SKU
V9780231151603
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About Bronner, Michael; Bronner, Yigal
Yigal Bronner is an assistant professor in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. He is a Sanskritist trained at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and at the University of Chicago. His research concerns Sanskrit poetry, Sanskrit poetics, and South Asian intellectual history.
Reviews for Extreme Poetry
Yigal Bronner's book fills a great lacuna in the study of South Asian literature and literary theory. Journal of Hindu Studies