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A Political History of Literature
- Vidyapati and the Fifteenth Century
Engelsk Hardback
A Political History of Literature
- Vidyapati and the Fifteenth Century
Engelsk Hardback

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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.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
272
ISBN-13:
9780199489558
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0199489556
Udg. Dato:
17 jan 2019
Længde:
24mm
Bredde:
228mm
Højde:
152mm
Forlag:
OUP India
Oplagsdato:
17 jan 2019
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