{"product_id":"the-wisdom-of-poets-studies-in-tamil-telugu-and-sanskrit","title":"The Wisdom of Poets: Studies in Tamil, Telugu, and Sanskrit","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor: David Shulman\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2001\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003ePages: 383\u003cbr\u003eISBN\/UPC (if available): 0195652371\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Description\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe essays collected in this volume explore central problems found in Sanskrit literature and in the classical literatures of south India. The author offers an innovative approach to the latent poetics of medieval poetry in Tamil and in Telugu.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat is the nature of the poetic voice? What kind of experience is at stake? How does poetic language come to embody truth?  How is this truth conceived by the poeticians and theoreticians who produced grammars of poetic perception and effect?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this book, the author offers an innovative approach to the latent poetics of medieval poetry in Tamil and in Telugu, where the poet turns out to be very close to a magician or sorcerer, and the project of poetry is to induce or intensify the presence of God.  Several essays deal with the theory of self and the organization of the internal world of imagination, forgetting, and memory in these classical literatures.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book will be welcomed by scholars and specialists of medieval south Indian and Sanskrit literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1.       AUTHORITY, STRUCTURE, VOICE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTowards a Historical Poetics of the Sanskrit Epics\u003cbr\u003eThe Yaksa's Questions\u003cbr\u003ePoets and Patrons in  Tamil Literature and Literary Legend\u003cbr\u003eFrom Author to Non-Author in Tamil Literary Legend\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2      SELVES, MEMBERED AND REMEMBERED\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn Being Human in the Sanskrit Epic: The Riddle of Nala\u003cbr\u003eEmbracing the Subject: Harsa's Play within a Play\u003cbr\u003eThe Prospects of Memory\u003cbr\u003eDreaming the Self in South India\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3     METAPHYSICS OF PRESENCE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBhavabhuti on Cruelty and Compassion\u003cbr\u003eFire and Flood: The Testing of Sita in Kampan's Iramavataram\u003cbr\u003eFirst Man, Forest Mother: Telugu Humanism in the Age of Krsnadevaraya\u003cbr\u003eDoes God Have Moods?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The India Club","offers":[{"title":"David Shulman \/ Oxford University Press \/ Hardcover","offer_id":68153491784048,"sku":"8554","price":52.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1041\/5203\/9792\/files\/8554.jpg?v=1793910336","url":"https:\/\/marketcalvexa.shop\/products\/the-wisdom-of-poets-studies-in-tamil-telugu-and-sanskrit","provider":"Alderstone House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}