Innovations and Turning Points: Toward a History of Kavya Literature
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South Asia Research
Book: Author
Edition
1st. ed.
Publisher
ISBN
0199453551, 9780199453559
Length
xv+805p., Illustrations; 25cm.
Subjects
This book is not a history of Sanskrit kavya. Nor does it address all moments of the truly conceptual innovations in this tradition. What it offers is a series of pilot studies, sometimes the first serious interpretative essays, on many works – which, roughly arranged in a chronological sequence, highlight structural, stylistic, thematic, and generic breakthroughs. Some of the essays present wide-angle panoramas of the evolution of parallel traditions that ...
