| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
South Asia research |
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South Asia research (New York, N.Y.)
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| Contents |
Dandin's magic Mirror / Yigal Bronner -- "A mirror and a handlamp": the Way of the Poet-King and the afterlife of the Mirror in the world of Kannada literature / Andrew Ollett -- "May it always be about adding beauty to beauty": the story of the Mirror in Sri Lanka / Charles Hallisey -- Folding figures: Tamil Tandi and the new poetic language of ornaments / Jennifer Clare and David Shulman -- Sanskrit poetics through Dandin's looking glass: an alternative history / Yigal Bronner and Whitney Cox -- Mirror on fire: an ardent reception in Tibet and Mongolia / Pema Bhum and Janet Gyatso -- A faultless science: Dandin and Dharmadasa in Burma and Bengal / Aleix Ruiz-Falqués -- The mirror of the practice: Indic models internalized in the Indonesian archipelago / Yigal Bronner -- Two mirrors, fleeting reflections: traces of Sanskrit poetics in East Asia / Shenghai Li |
| Summary |
"A Lasting Vision is dedicated to the Mirror of Literature (Kavyadarsa), a Sanskrit treatise on poetics composed by Dandin in south India (c. 700 CE) and to its remarkable career throughout large parts of Asia. The Mirror was adapted and translated into several languages in the southern Indian peninsula (Kannada, Tamil) and the Island of Sri Lanka (Sinhala, Pali), as well as in the Tibetan plateau far to the north (Tibetan, Mongolian). In all these receiving cultures it became a classical text and a source of constant engagement and innovation, often well into the modern era. It also travelled to Burma and Thailand, where it held a place of honor in Buddhist monastic education and intellectual life, and likely to the islands of Java and Bali, where it contributed to the production of literature in Old Javanese. There is even reason to believe that it reached China and impacted Chinese literary culture, although far more peripherally than in other parts of Asia. It also maintained a prominent position in the Sanskrit learned discourses throughout the Indian subcontinent for at least a millennium. This multi-authored volume, organized by region and language, is the first attempt to chart and explain the Mirror's amazing transregional and multilingual success: what was so unique about this work that might explain its near-continental conquest, how was it transmitted to and received in the many different environments, and what happened to it whenever it was being adopted and adapted"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from home page (Oxford Academic, viewed on February 9, 2024) |
| Subject |
Daṇḍin, active 7th century. Kāvyādarśa.
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Daṇḍin, active 7th century -- Appreciation
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| SUBJECT |
Daṇḍin, active 7th century fast |
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Kāvyādarśa (Daṇḍin) fast |
| Subject |
Art appreciation
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Literature: history & criticism.
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Literature.
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| Genre/Form |
Essays
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Literary criticism
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Literary criticism.
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Essays.
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Critiques littéraires.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bronner, Yigal, editor.
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| LC no. |
2022027419 |
| ISBN |
9780197642948 |
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0197642942 |
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0197642934 |
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9780197642955 |
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0197642950 |
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9780197642931 |
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