UID:
almahu_9949863644302882
Format:
1 online resource (285 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780520384484
Content:
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more atwww.luminosoa.org. What are the pleasures of reading translations of South Asian literature, and what does it take to enjoy a translated text? This volume provides opportunities to explore such questions by bringing together a whole set of new translations by David Shulman, noted scholar of South Asia. The translated selections come from a variety of Indian languages, genres, and periods, from the classical to the contemporary. The translations are accompanied by short essays written to help readers engage and enjoy them. Some of these essays provide background to enhance reading of the translation, whereas others model how to expand appreciation in comparative and broader ways. Together, the translations and the accompanying essays form an essential guide for people interested in literature and art from South Asia.
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Cover -- Luminos page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Unit I. Retelling Nala -- Chapter 1. Shriharsha's Sanskrit Life of Naishadha -- Gary Tubb: Points and Progression -- Thibaut d'Hubert: If I'm Reading You Right -- Chapter 2. Ativirarama Pandyan's Tamil Life of Naidatha -- N. Govindarajan: Hearing and Madness -- Sheldon Pollock: How We Read -- Chapter 3. Malamangala Kavi's Malayalam Naishadha in Our Language -- Sivan Goren-Arzony: I Talk to the Wind -- Meir Shahar: In the Garden of Love -- Unit II. What Does It Mean to Be "Modern" in Telugu? -- Chapter 4. "Khwaja the Dog-Worshiper" from The Story of the Four Dervishes -- Jamal A. Jones: How Not to See a Dog-Worshiper -- Muzaffar Alam: A Historian Reads a Fable -- Chapter 5. "Touch" by Abburi Chayadevi -- Gautham Reddy: How to Touch "Touch" -- Sanjay Subrahmanyam: "Don't Stand So Close to Me!" -- Chapter 6. "A Street Pump in Anantapuram" and Five Other Poems by Mohammad Ismail -- Afsar Mohammad: Speaking of Landscapes, Revolutionaries, and Donkeys -- Gabriel Levin: Between Sky and Road -- Unit III. The Love of Music and the Music of Love -- Chapter 7. The Music Contest from Tiruttakkatevar's Tamil Chivakan's Gem -- Talia Ariav: Love in Defeat -- Kesavan Veluthat: Sweetness that Melts the Heart -- Chapter 8. Two Songs by Muttuswami Dikshitar, Performed by T. M. Krishna and Eileen Shulman -- T. M. Krishna: Beyond Passion, Beyond Even the Raga -- Donald R. Davis, Jr.: Reading is an Act of Trust -- Unit IV. The Vagaries of Love -- Chapter 9. Desire and Passion Ride to War (Unknown Artist) -- Anna Lise Seastrand: Pillars of Love -- Tawfiq Da'adli: Side Observation of a Small Portion of Varadaraja Temple -- Chapter 10. Ravana Visits Sita at Night in the Ashoka Grove, from Kamban's Tamil Ramayana -- Whitney Cox: Kamban's Tamil as a Kind of Sanskrit.
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Yehoshua Granat: Can Darkness Stand Before Light? -- Chapter 11. When a Mountain Rapes a River, from Bhattumurti's Telugu Vasu's Life -- Ilanit Loewy Shacham: Irreconcilable Differences and (Un)Conventional Love -- Deven M. Patel: Desire, Perception, and the Poetry of Desire -- Unit V. Love's Interior Landscapes -- Chapter 12. "Ten on the Wild Boar" -- Archana Venkatesan: Reading "Ten on the Wild Boar" -- Chapter 13. Three Poems about Love's Inner Modes -- Jennifer Clare: Between Us -- R. Cheran: The Unbaked Clay Pot in Pouring Rain -- Unit VI. Who Am I When I'm Reading You? -- Chapter 14. Nammalvar's Tamil A Hundred Measures of Time -- Anand Venkatkrishnan: "You Came so that We May Live" -- Andrew Ollett: Taking the Measure of A Hundred Measures -- Chapter 15. A Persian Ghazal by Hafez and an Urdu Ghazal by Ghalib -- Rajeev Kinra: The Layered Thought-World of the Ghazal -- Peter Cole: The Ghazal of What's More than Real -- Afterword -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Bronner, Yigal Sensitive Reading Berkeley : University of California Press,c2022 ISBN 9780520384477
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
