E H Rick Jarow

The Cloud of Longing

A New Translation and Eco-Aesthetic Study of Kalidasa's Meghaduta

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Produktbeschreibung

A full-length study and new translation of the great Sanskrit poet K?lid?sa's famed Meghad?ta (literally "The Cloud Messenger,") The Cloud of Longing focuses on the poem's interfacing of nature, feeling, figurative language, and mythic memory.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9780197566640
• ISBN-10: 0197566642
• Artikelnr.: 61343466

Autorenporträt

E. H. Rick Jarow is Associate Professor of Religion and Asian Studies at Vassar College. He is the author of Tales for the Dying: The Death Narrative of the Bhagavata-Purana and has numerous published articles on Indology, Kalidasa and on the reception of Indian texts in the West.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
I.The Meghaduta of Kalidasa
II. Liquid Meaning in Sanskrt Poetics
III. Clouds
IV. Vastunirdesa
V. The Argument
VI. The Cloud's Way
VII. Meteorology and Metaphor
VIII. Alaka
VIII. Critical Considerations