This book studies the fifteenth-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, a...

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1. Verfasser:	Jha, Pankaj ca. 20./21. Jh (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	New Delhi Oxford University Press 2019
Ausgabe:	First edition
Schlagworte:	Vidyāpati > 1360-1448 Literatur Vidyāpati Ṭhākura / active 15th century / Criticism and interpretation India / History / 1000-1526 India / In literature Vidyāpati Ṭhākura / active 15th century Literature India 1000-1526 Criticism, interpretation, etc History
Zusammenfassung:	This book studies the fifteenth-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, classicizing impulse and useable forms. He was not alone in doing so. As the book shows, many of the ideals extolled in fifteenth-century literary cultures appear to be those more appropriate for ambitious and expansive political formations associated with an imperial state. That such a state was to emerge only a century later is probably a testimony to the fact that ideas incubate and get actualized in realpolitik only in the long duration
Beschreibung:	xxviii, 271 Seiten 23 cm
ISBN:	9780199489558