Into the Twilight of Sanskrit Court Poetry (eBook)

The Sena Salon of Bengal and Beyond

Jesse Ross Knutson (Autor)

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2014
228 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-95779-4 (ISBN)

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At the turn of the twelfth-century into the thirteenth, at the court of King Laksmanasena of Bengal, Sanskrit poetry showed profound and sudden changes: a new social scope made its definitive entrance into high literature.  Courtly and pastoral, rural and urban, cosmopolitan and vernacular confronted each other in a commingling of high and low styles. A literary salon in what is now Bangladesh, at the eastern extreme of the nexus of regional courtly cultures that defined the age, seems to have implicitly reformulated its entire literary system in the context of the imminent breakdown of the old courtly world, as Turkish power expanded and redefined the landscape.  Through close readings of a little-known corpus of texts from eastern India, this ambitious book demonstrates how a local and rural sensibility came to infuse the cosmopolitan language of Sanskrit, creating a regional literary idiom that would define the emergence of the Bengali language and its literary traditions.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.3.2014
• Reihe/Serie: South Asia Across the Disciplines
• Reihe/Serie: South Asia Across the Disciplines
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Hinduismus
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: 13th century literature • Bangladesh • Bengal • bengali language • bookish • Cosmopolitan • courtly writing • Creative Writing • Cultural Studies • Eastern India • high literature • high styles of writing • Historical • History • Indian Subcontinent • king laksmanasena of bengal • Literary • Literary Studies • literary traditions • Literature • low styles of writing • old courtly world • pastoral poetry • Poems • Poetry • poetry and poets • Regional literature • Rural • Sanskrit poetry • Urban • Verse • Writing
• ISBN-10: 0-520-95779-2 / 0520957792
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-95779-4 / 9780520957794