Innovations and turning points : toward a history of kavya literature / 
 Toward a history of kavya literature 
edited by Yigal Bronner, David Shulman, Gary Tubb. 
 - First edition. 
 - New Delhi, India :   Oxford University Press,  [2014] ©2014 
 - xv, 805 pages :  illustrations ;  25 cm. 
 - South Asia research (New York, N.Y.) .
<br/><br/> Includes passages in Sanskrit (roman); with English translation. 
<br/><br/>Acknowledgements ; Introduction: Yigal Bronner, David Shulman, Gary Tubb ; I. KALIDASA AND EARLY CLASSICISM ; 1. Waking Aja: David Shulman ; 2. Baking Uma: Gary Tubb ; 3. On Beginnings: Introductions and Prefaces in Kavya: Herman Tieken ; II. THE DEVELOPING MAHAKAVYA ; 4. Pace and Pattern in the Kiratarjuniya Peter Khoroche ; 5. The Conquest of Cool: Theology and Aesthetics in Magha's Sisupalavadha: Lawrence McCrea ; 6. Kavya with Bells On: Yamaka in the Sisupalavadha: Gary Tubb ; 7. A Constant Flow of Pilgrims: Kavya and the Early History of the Kakawin:Tom Hunter ; III. THE MASTERS OF PROSE ; 8. The Nail-Mark That Lit the Bedroom: Biography of a Compound: Yigal Bronner ; 9. Bana's Death in the Kadambari: Herman Tieken ; 10. Persons Compounded and Confounded: A Reading of Bana's Kadambari: David Shulman ; 11. On Bana's Boldness: Gary Tubb ; IV. THE SONS OF BANA ; 12. Something New in the Air: Abhinanda's Ramacarita and Its Ancestry: Gary Tubb ; 13. "The Plays of Bhavabhuti": Gary Tubb ; 14. The Poetics of Perspective in Rajasekhara's Young Ramayana: Lawrence McCrea ; 15. Murari's Depths: David Shulman ; V. POETS OF THE NEW MILLENNIUM ; 16. The Poetics of Ambivalence: Imagining and Unimagining the Political in Bilhana's Vikramankadevacarita: Yigal Bronner ; 17. Putting the Polish on the Poet's Efforts: Reading the Karnasundari as a Reflection on Poetic Creativity: Phyllis Granoff ; 18. Shadows: Charles Malamoud ; 19. Indian Kavya Poetry on the Far Side of the Himalayas: Translation, Transmission, Adaptation, Originality: Dan Martin ; VI. REGIONAL KAVYAS ; 20. Sakalya Malla's Telangana Ramaya?a: The Udara-Raghava: David Shulman ; 21. The Classical Past in the Mughal Present: The Brajbhasha Riti Tradition: Allison Busch ; 22. Poetry and Play in Kavikarnapura's Play within the Play: Gary Tubb ; 23. Modernity in Sanskrit Viswanatha Satyanarayana's Amrta-sarmistam Velcheru Narayana Rao ; 24. A Distant Mirror: Innovation and Change in the East Javanese Kakawin; Tom Hunter ; 25. Notes on Contributors ; Index 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780199453559 (hbk.) 0199453551 (hbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Sanskrit literature--History and criticism.<br/>South Asian literature--History and criticism.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>891.21009  / BRO/I