A Lasting Vision

Dandin's Mirror in the World of Asian Letters
Herausgeber: Bronner, Yigal

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Produktbeschreibung

A Lasting Vision is dedicated to the Mirror of Literature, a Sanskrit treatise on poetics composed by Dandin in south India (c. 700 CE) and to its remarkable transcontinental career. The Mirror was adapted and translated into many Asian languages and became a classical text and a source of constant engagement and innovation, often well into the modern era.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 560
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 163mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 907g
• ISBN-13: 9780197642924
• ISBN-10: 0197642926
• Artikelnr.: 66405334

Autorenporträt

Yigal Bronner is a Sanskritist whose areas of interest include literature, literary theory, and South Asian intellectual history more generally. He teaches in the Department of Asian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* Introduction
* 1. Dandin's Magic Mirror
* 2. "A Mirror and a Handlamp": The Way of the Poet-King and the
Afterlife of the Mirror in the World of Kannada Literature
* 3. "May it Always Be about Adding Beauty to Beauty": The Story of the
Mirror in Sri Lanka
* 4. Folding Figures: Tamil Tandi and the New Poetic Language of
Ornaments
* 5. Sanskrit Poetics through Dandin's Looking Glass: An Alternative
History
* 6. Mirror on Fire: An Ardent Reception in Tibet and Mongolia
* 7. A Faultless Science: Dandin and Dharmadasa in Burma and Bengal
* 8. The Mirror of the Practice: Indic Models Internalized in the
Indonesian Archipelago
* 9. Two Mirrors, Fleeting Reflections: Traces of Sanskrit Poetics in
East Asia
* Contributors
* Index