Śrīnātha the poet who made gods and kings
Title:
Śrīnātha the poet who made gods and kings
Author:
Narayana Rao, Velcheru, 1932-
ISBN:
9780199863037
9781280594342
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Publication Information:
New York : Oxford University Press, ©2012.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (x, 206 pages)
Contents:
Cover; Contents; Preface; 1. Introduction; 1.1 Who Was Srinatha?; 1.2 The Poet's Autobiography; 1.3 The Reddi Kings and the Idea of Andhra; 1.4 What Makes a Poet?; 1.5 How to Tell a Story; 2. What Happens When a Poem Is Translated into a Poem?; 2.1 A Telugu Tour de Force; 2.2 The Author and Translator in the Text; 2.3 The Two Words "You" and "I"; 2.4 Tears and Nasals; 2.5 A New Space; 3. Building in Sound; 3.1 Agonies of Exile; 3.2 Siva Fragmented and Unified; 3.3 The Burning of the Three Cities; 3.4 A River Delayed; 3.5 Fusion and Fullness; 3.6 Conclusion: On Creating a God.
Abstract:
This groundbreaking cultural biography of Srinatha, arguably the most creative figure in the thousand-year history of Telugu literature., shows how the fourteenth- and fifteenth-century poet revolutionized the classical tradition and effectively created the classical genre of sustained, thematically focused, coherent large-scale compositions. Some of his works are proto-novellas: self-consciously fictional, focused on the development of characters, and endowed with compelling, fast-paced plots. Though entirely rooted in the cultural world of medieval south India, Srinatha is a poet of universa.
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