Format:
1 Online-Ressource (XXVIII, 271 Seiten)
,
illustrations (black and white).
ISBN:
9780199095360
Series Statement:
Oxford scholarship online
Content:
This title studies the 15th-century north India through an intimate exploration of three compositions of the poet-scholar, Vidyapati: a Sanskrit treatise on writing, a celebratory biography in Apabhramsa, and a collection of mytho-historical tales in Sanskrit. An intimate linguistic, literary, and historical study of these texts reveals a world that is marked by a range of ideas, expertise, literary tropes, ethical regimes and historical consciousness drawn eclectically from sources that we are used to thinking of as belonging to 'diverse' politico-cultural traditions. Vidyapati laced these ideas with contemporary flavour, classicising impulse and useable forms. He was not alone in doing so. As the book shows, many of the ideals extolled in 15th-century literary cultures appear to be those more appropriate for ambitious and expansive political formations associated with an imperial state.
Note:
This edition previously issued in print: 2019. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on January 22, 2019)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780199489558
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Jha, Pankaj A political history of literature New Delhi : Oxford University Press India, 2019 ISBN 9780199489558
Language:
English
Keywords:
Vidyāpati 1360-1448
;
Literatur
;
Indien
;
Schriftsteller
;
Literaturwissenschaft
;
Textanalyse
;
Geschichte
;
Sanskrit
;
Apabhramscha
;
Literatur
;
Politik
;
Mithila
;
Schriftsteller
;
Geschichte 1350-1450
DOI:
10.1093/oso/9780199489558.001.0001
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