TY - BOOK AU - Figueira,Dorothy Matilda TI - Translating the Orient: the reception of Śākuntala in nineteenth-century Europe SN - 0791403289 U1 - 891.22 PY - 1991/// CY - Albany PB - State University of New York Press KW - Philosophy, Indic, in literature KW - Sanskrit language--Style KW - Śakuntalā (Kālidāsa) KW - European literature KW - Indic literature KW - Literature N1 - BACKGROUND AND THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS -- CRITICAL RECEPTION AND METHODOLOGY -- NINETEENTH-CENTURY TRANSLATION CONVENTIONS -- AN INTRODUCTION TO THE SAKUNTALA -- ANALYSIS OF THE TEXT -- ERRORS IN THE HOST LANGUAGE : GRAMMATICAL PREJUDICES OF THE SANSKRIT LANGUAGE AND THE HORIZON OF THE TEXT AS A NATAKA -- DRAMATIC ADAPTATIONS -- TRADUTTORE TRADITORE -- INDIA A SOURCE OF INSPIRATION OR AN ALIBI FOR DESPAIR ER -