UID:
almafu_9958138331602883
Umfang:
1 online resource (373 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9786613522726
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9781280118432
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1280118431
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9789400600317
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9400600313
Inhalt:
The Padmavat (1540 CE) by the Indian Sufi poet Malik Muhammad Jayasi is a classic of pre-modern Indian literature. It relates how the Rajput king Ratansen of Chitor finds and marries the beautiful princess Padmavati, and how the sultan Alauddin Khilji, on hearing of her beauty, besieges Chitor in a fruitless attempt to capture her.
Anmerkung:
"The present study is based on the PhD dissertation The Ruby Hidden in the Dust : A study of the poetics of Malik Muhammad Jāyasi's Padmāvat, defended in the 1996 at Leiden University."--Pref.
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Ruby in the dust; table of contents; preface; A note on transliteration; Introduction; Part 1; Chapter I Th poet and the literary field; Chapter II Text, transmission and reception; Chapter III The literary context of Padmavat; Chapter IV Structure and meaning in Padmavat; Part 2; Chapter V A poem of love; Chapter VI The metaphoric scheme of light; Chapter VII The messenger; Chapter VIII Conclusion: Jayasi and the literary field; References; Appendix; Glossary; Index
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Also available in print form.
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9789087281120
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9087281129
Sprache:
Englisch
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