Bouquet of Rasa/ River of Rasa - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0814767559 ISBN 13 : 9780814767559

Editeur : New York University Press, 2009

Synopsis

Bhanu is probably the most famous Sanskrit poet that no one today has ever heard of. His "Bouquet of Rasa" and "River of Rasa," both composed in the early sixteenth century, probably under the patronage of the Nizam of Ahmadnagar in western India, attracted the attention of the most celebrated commentators in early modern India. Some of the greatest painters of Mewar and Basohli vied to turn his subtle poems into pictures. And his verses were prized by poets everywhere: Abu al-Fazl, the preeminent scholar at Akbar's court, translated them into Persian, and, Kshetráyya, the great Andhra poet of the next century, adapted them into Telugu. Many writers have described the types of heroines and heroes of Sanskrit literature (the subject of the "Bouquet of Rasa") or explained the nature of aesthetic emotion (that of the "River of Rasa"), but none did so in verse of such exquisite and subtle artistry.

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À propos de l'auteur

Sheldon I. Pollock is the William B. Ransford Professor of Sanskrit and Indian Studies and Chairman of the Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University. He is the author of The Language of the Gods in the World of Men: Sanskrit, Culture, and Power in Premodern India and editor of Cosmopolitanism and Literary Cultures in History: Reconstructions from South Asia.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: New York University Press
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0814767559
• ISBN 13: 9780814767559
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 460
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible