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Author Lutjeharms, Rembert, 1981- author.

Title A Vaiṣṇava poet in early modern Bengal : Kavikarṇapūra's splendour of speech / Rembert Lutjeharms
Edition First edition
Published Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018

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Description 1 online resource
Series Oxford theology and religion monographs
Oxford theology and religion monographs.
Contents Introduction -- On Kavikarṇapūra -- On doctrine and devotion -- On rasa -- On poetic language -- On defining poetry -- On the Vṛndāvana of bliss -- On the rasa of love
Summary "This book examines the practice of poetry in the devotional Vaiṣṇava tradition inspired by Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya (1486-1533), through a detailed study of the Sanskrit poetic works of Kavikarṇapūra, one of the most significant sixteenth-century Caitanya Vaiṣṇava poets and theologians. It places his ideas in the context both of Sanskrit literary theory (by exploring his use of earlier works of Sanskrit criticism) and of Vaiṣṇava theology (by tracing the origins of his theological ideas to earlier Vaiṣṇava teachers, especially his guru Śrīnātha). Both Kavikarṇapūra's poetics as well as the style of his poetry is in many ways at odds with those of his time, particularly with respect to the place of phonetic ornamentation and rasa. Like later early modern theorists, Kavikarṇapūra reaches back to the earliest Sanskrit poeticians whom he attempts to harmonise with the theories current in his time, to develop a new poetics that values both literary ornamentation and the suggestion of emotion through rasa. This book argues that the reasons of and purposes for Kavikarṇapūra's literary innovations are firmly rooted in his unique Vaiṣṇava theology, and exemplifies this through a careful reading of select passages from the Ānanda-vṛndāvana, his poetic retelling of Kṛṣṇa's play in Vṛndāvana."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 21, 2018)
Subject Karṇapūra, 1524?- Alaṅkarākaustubha.
SUBJECT Alaṅkarākaustubha (Karṇapūra) fast
Subject Hinduism -- Philosophy
Poetics.
Religious poetry, Indic -- History and criticism
Literature -- Philosophy.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- Indic.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry.
Literature -- Philosophy
Hinduism -- Philosophy
Poetics
Religious poetry, Indic
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780192561923
0192561928
9780191866012
0191866016