Velcheru Narayana Rao, David Shulman

Srinatha

The Poet Who Made Gods and Kings

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This groundbreaking cultural biography of Srinatha, arguably the most creative figure in the thousand-year history of Telugu literature., shows how the fourteenth- and fifteenth-century poet revolutionized the classical tradition and effectively created the classical genre of sustained, thematically focused, coherent large-scale compositions. Some of his works are proto-novellas: self-consciously fictional, focused on the development of characters, and endowed with compelling, fast-paced plots. Though entirely rooted in the cultural world of medieval south India, Srinatha is a poet of universal resonance and relevance. Narayana Rao and Shulman provide extended translations of Srinatha's major works and show how the poet bridged gaps between oral (improvised) poetry and fixed literary works; between Telugu and the classical, pan-Indian language of Sanskrit; and between local and trans-local cultural contexts. This wide-ranging and perceptive study reveals Srinatha place in a great classical tradition in a moment of profound cultural transformation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 379g
• ISBN-13: 9780199863044
• ISBN-10: 0199863040
• Artikelnr.: 34224710

Autorenporträt

VNR: Professor of Languages and Cultures of Asia, University of Wisconsin, Madison; DS: Renee Lang Professor of Humanistic Studies, Hebrew University, Jerusalem

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Introduction
2. What Happens When a Poem is Translated into a Poem?
3. Building in Sound
4. A Novella in Two Voices
5. Afterlife
6. Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index