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Author : Rupert Snell
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783447040587
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Classics of Modern South Asian Literature written by Rupert Snell and published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. This book was released on 1998 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Heidi R.M. Pauwels
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134062559
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Indian Literature and Popular Cinema written by Heidi R.M. Pauwels and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-12-17 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers the popular cinema of North India (Bollywood) and how it recasts literary classics. It addresses the socio-political implications of popular reinterpretations of elite culture, exploring gender issues and the perceived sexism of popular films and how that plays out when literature is reworked into film.
Author : Yigal Bronner
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520384474
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Sensitive Reading written by Yigal Bronner and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction / Yigal Bronner and Charles Hallisey -- Shriharsha's Sanskrit Life of Naishadha : translator's note and text -- Points and progression : how to read Shriharsha's Life of Naishadha / Gary Tubb -- "If I'm reading you right..." : reading bodies, minds and poetry in the Life of Naishadha / Thibaut d'Hubert -- Ativirarama Pandyan's Tamil Life of Naidatha : translator's note and text -- Hearing and madness : reading Ativirarama Pandyan's Life of Naidatha / N. Govindarajan -- How we read / Sheldon Pollock -- Malamangala Kavi's Malalyalam Naishadha in our language : translator's note and text -- I talk to the wind : Malamangala Kavi's Naishadha in our language / Sivan Goren-Arzony -- In the garden of love : an essay on Naishadha in our language / Meir Shahar -- "Khwaja the Dog-Worshiper" from The story of the four dervishes : translator's note and text -- How not to see a dog-worshiper / Jamal Jones -- A historian reads a fable / Muzaffar Alam -- "Touch" by Abburi Chayadevi : translator's note and text -- How to touch "Touch" / Gautham Reddy -- "Don't stand so close to me!" : remarks on Chayadevi's "Touch" / Sanjay Subrahmanyam -- "A street pump in Anantapuram" and five other poems by Ismail : translator's note and text -- Speaking of landscapes, revolutionaries, and donkeys : Ismail's words and images / Afsar Mohammad -- Between sky and road : the wandering scholar, modernism and the poetry of Ismail / Gabriel Levin -- The music contest from Tiruttakkatevar's Tamil Chivakan's gem : translator's note and text -- Love in defeat / Talia Arlav -- Sweetness that melts the heart / Kesavan Veluthat -- What's gained in translation / Sonam Kachru -- Two songs by Muttuswami Dikshitar performed by T.M. Krishna and Eileen Shulman : translator's note, texts, and recordings -- Beyond passion, beyond even the Raga / T.M. Krishna -- Reading as an act of trust / Donald R. Davis -- Desire and passion ride to war (unknown artist) : selector's note -- Pillars of love : a dialogic reading of temple sculpture / Anna Lise Seastrand -- Side observation of a small portion of Varadaraja-svami Temple / Tawfiq Da'adli -- Ravana visits Sita at night in the Ashoka Grove, from Kamban's Tamil Ramayana : translator's note and text -- Kamban's Tamil as a kind of Sanskrit / Whitney Cox -- Can darkness stand before light? : encountering an episode from a medieval Tamil masterpiece / Yehoshua Granat -- When a mountain rapes a river, from Bhattumurti's Telugu Vasu's Life : translator's note and text -- Irreconcilable differences and (un)conventional love in Bhattumurti's Vasu's Life / Ilanit Loewy Schacham -- Desire, perception, and the poetry of desire : a reading of Vasu's life / Deven Patel -- "The ten on the wild boar" : translator's note and text -- Reading "Ten on the wild boar" / Archana Venkatesan -- Three poems about love's inner modes : translator's note and text -- Between us : reading Tamil Akam poems / Jennifer Clare -- The unbaked clay pot in pouring rain : reading Sangam poetry today / R. Cheran -- Nammalvar's Tamil A hundred measures of time : translator's note and text -- "You came so that we may live" / Anand Venkatkrishnan -- Taking the measure of A hundred measures / Andrew Ollett -- A Persian Ghazal by Hafez and an Urdu Ghazal by Ghaleb : translator's note and text -- How a Ghazal thinks / Rajeev Kinra -- The Ghazal of What's more than real / Peter Cole -- Afterword / Wendy Doniger.
Author : Prof. Yigal Bronner
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520384482
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Sensitive Reading written by Prof. Yigal Bronner and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.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.
Author : Yigal Bronner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780924304637
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (46 download)
Download or read book South Asian Texts in History written by Yigal Bronner and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South Asian Texts in History charts the contours of a reenvisioned and revitalized field of Indology in the light of the groundbreaking research of Sheldon Pollock. One of the many exciting aspects of Pollock's work is its unprecedented combination of classical textual study with cutting edge theoretical and social scientific inquiry--a combination which this book sets out to emulate. Pollock has trained and inspired a new generation of scholars, many of whom have contributed to this volume. The essays are organized into five groups that reflect the major domains of Pollock's immense contributions to the field: the epic Ramayana, Sanskrit literature and literary theory, systematic thought in premodern South Asia, the birth of a new vernacular cultural order in the subcontinent during the second millennium CE, and India's early modernity. Most of the essays concentrate on materials in Sanskrit, but there are also considerable contributions to the history of Hindi, Tamil, and Persian literatures. The book presents for the first time an overview of the groundbreaking contributions of Sheldon Pollock to South Asia scholarship over the past three decades, while offering a set of critiques of key elements of his theories.
Author : Diana Dimitrova
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230105521
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Religion in Literature and Film in South Asia written by Diana Dimitrova and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-02-15 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative, interdisciplinary collection of essays by scholars based in Europe and the United States offers stimulating approaches to the role played by religion in present-day South Asia.
Author : Christina Oesterheld
Publisher : Manohar Publishers and Distributors
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Of Clowns and Gods, Brahmans, and Babus written by Christina Oesterheld and published by Manohar Publishers and Distributors. This book was released on 1999 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humour As A Competence Inherent In All Human Beings Defies Description. Its Variety Of Manifetations, In Contrast, The Countless Faces And Forms Of Humour Have Always Engendered Curiosity. For Centuries They Have Inspired People To Attempt To Pinpoint The Essence Of Humour. The Contributors To This Volume, However, Are Somewhat More Modest In Their Endeavors. Their Topic Is Humour In The Written And Oral Literatures Of South Asia. This Volume Contains A Broad Spectre Of Essays On Humour In Modern And Pre-Modern, In Classical And Folk, And In Written And Oral Literatures From Almost All Corners Of The Subcontinent. The Essays Treat The Subject From A Multitute Of Perspectives And Before The Background Of Different Theories Of Humour. Besides Promising An Enjoyable And Informative Reading, This Volume Is Also Expected To Draw More Attention To An Hitherto Neglected Field In South Asian Studies, And To Stimulate Further Research.
Author : Anshu Malhotra
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000867005
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Bhai Vir Singh (1872–1957) written by Anshu Malhotra and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-04-27 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together works by established and emerging scholars to consider the work and impact of Bhai Vir Singh. Bhai Vir Singh (1872-1957) was a major force in the shaping of modern Sikh and Punjabi culture, language, and politics in the undivided colonial Punjab, prior to the Partition of the province in 1947, and in the post-colonial state of India. The chapters in this book explore how he both reflected and shaped his time and context and address some of the ongoing legacy of his work in the lives of contemporary Sikhs. The contributors analyze the varied genres, literary, and historical that were adopted and adapted by Bhai Vir Singh to foreground and enhance Sikh religiosity and identity. These include his novels, didactic pamphlets, journalistic writing, prefatory and exegetical work on spiritual and secular historical documents, and his poems and lyrics, among others. This book will be of particular interest to those working in Sikh studies, South Asian studies, and post-colonial studies.
Author : Lothar Lutze
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Drama in Contemporary South Asia written by Lothar Lutze and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Diana Dimitrova
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019286906X
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)
Download or read book Cultural Identity in Hindi Plays written by Diana Dimitrova and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-15 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with the interface between identity, culture and literature. It aims at studying questions of cultural identity and gender in Hindi plays of the 19th- and 20th- centuries and the interplay of poetics and politics, as revealed in the work of several influential playwrights. The book explores questions related to the ways in which seven representative playwrights imagine India and its identity and the ways, in which this concept is revealed in the "narratives of the nation", its postcolonial contentions and the politics of identity, as revealed in the production of various cultural discourses. The chapters explore various aspects of the ongoing process of constructing and narrating culture, gender, the nation and identity. There has been no monograph on the questions of cultural identity in Hindi drama. This is a pioneering project and a desideratum in the field of Hindi literature, South Asian Studies, and broadly, in the study of theatre of India and of South Asian cultures and literatures.
Author : Patrick Peebles
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131745247X
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)
Download or read book Voices of South Asia written by Patrick Peebles and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-01-28 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ideal supplement for any course treating the history or culture of South Asia, this collection offers a cross-section of South Asia's ancient and modern classics of thought and expression. It includes a unique mix of poetry, novels, drama, and political and philosophical treatises, each accompanied by a detailed introductory essay on the specific historical context, the author, and the work.
Author : Valerie Ritter
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438435673
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Kāma's Flowers written by Valerie Ritter and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kama's Flowers documents the transformation of Hindi poetry during the crucial period of 1885-1925. As Hindi was becoming a national language and Indian nationalism was emerging, Hindi authors articulated a North Indian version of modernity by reenvisioning nature. While their writing has previously been seen as an imitation of European Romanticism, Valerie Ritter shows its unique and particular function in North India. Description of the natural world recalled traditional poetics, particularly erotic and devotional poetics, but was now used to address sociopolitical concerns, as authors created literature to advocate for a "national character" and to address a growing audience of female readers. Examining Hindi classics, translations from English poetry, literary criticism, and little-known popular works, Ritter combines translations with fresh literary analysis to show the pivotal role of nature in how modernity was understood. Bringing a new body of literature to English-language readers, Kama's Flowers also reveals the origins of an influential visual culture that resonates today in Bollywood cinema.
Author : Phiroze Vasunia
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0199203237
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book The Classics and Colonial India written by Phiroze Vasunia and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-05-16 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a unique cross-cultural study, this book provides a detailed account of the relationship between classical antiquity and the British colonial presence in India. Vasunia shows how classical culture pervaded the minds of the British colonizers, and highlights the many Indian receptions of Greco-Roman antiquity.
Author : C. Patrick Heidkamp
Publisher : Zeta Books
ISBN 13 : 6068266648
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (682 download)
Download or read book Environment, Space, Place - Volume 5, Issue 2 (Fall 2013) written by C. Patrick Heidkamp and published by Zeta Books. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pashaura Singh
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191004111
Total Pages : 673 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Sikh Studies written by Pashaura Singh and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-03-27 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Sikh Studies innovatively combines the ways in which scholars from fields as diverse as philosophy, psychology, religious studies, literary studies, history, sociology, anthropology, political science, and economics have integrated the study of Sikhism within a wide range of critical and postcolonial perspectives on the nature of religion, violence, gender, ethno-nationalism, and revisionist historiography. A number of essays within this collection also provide a more practical dimension, written by artists and practitioners of the tradition. The handbook is divided into eight thematic sections that explore different 'expressions' of Sikhism. Historical, literary, ideological, institutional, and artistic expressions are considered in turn, followed by discussion of Sikhs in the Diaspora, and of caste and gender in the Panth. Each section begins with an essay by a prominent scholar in the field, providing an overview of the topic. Further essays provide detail and further treat the fluid, multivocal nature of both the Sikh past and the present. The handbook concludes with a section considering future directions in Sikh Studies.
Author : Maya Burger
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783034305648
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (56 download)
Download or read book India in Translation Through Hindi Literature written by Maya Burger and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What role have translations from Hindi literary works played in shaping and transforming our knowledge about India? In this book, renowned scholars, translators and Hindi writers from India, Europe, and the United States offer their approaches to this question. Their articles deal with the political, cultural, and linguistic criteria germane to the selection and translation of Hindi works, the nature of the enduring links between India and Europe, and the reception of translated texts, particularly through the perspective of book history. More personal essays, both on the writing process itself or on the practice of translation, complete the volume and highlight the plurality of voices that are inherent to any translation. As the outcome of an international symposium held at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, in 2008, India in Translation through Hindi Literature engages in the building of critical histories of the encounter between India and the «West», the use and impact of translations in this context, and Hindi literature and culture in connection to English (post)colonial power, literature and culture.
Author : Arvind-Pal S. Mandair
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136846344
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)
Download or read book Sikh Religion, Culture and Ethnicity written by Arvind-Pal S. Mandair and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together new approaches to the study of Sikh religion, culture and ethnicity being pursued in the diaspora by Sikh academics in western universities in Britain and North America. An important aspect of the volume is the diversity of topics that are engaged - including film and gender theory, theology, hermeneutics, deconstruction, semiotics and race theory - and brought to bear on the individual contributors' specialism within Sikh studies, thereby helping to explode previously static dichotomies such as insider vs. outsider or history vs. tradition. The volume should have strong appeal both to an academic market including students of politics, religious studies and South Asian studies, and to a more general English-speaking Sikh readership.
