| Description |
1 online resource (12, 494 pages) |
| Series |
SUNY series in Hindu studies |
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SUNY series in Hindu studies.
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| Contents |
Sources of Publication; Preface and Acknowledgments; Sanjay Subrahmanyam: VNR-Some Introductory Remarks; I; II; III; Key Bibliographic Elements; Notes; 1 Multiple Literary Cultures in Telugu: Court, Temple, and Public; Linguistic and Geographical Boundaries of Telugu Literary Cultures; The First Poet and the Production of a Brahminical/Puranic Literary Culture; The Literary Culture of Śaivabhakti; Poetry for Pleasure: Kāvya Culture; Court Poetry; Poetry in the Temple; Literature for the God-king in His Court-temple; Literature in Public Space: The Cāṭu World |
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The Question of Literary LanguageThe Politics of Translation; The Culture of Writing and the Propagation of Books; Notes; References; 2 Notes on Political Thought in Medieval and Early Modern South India; Introduction; Some Ur-Texts; Nīti and its Opponents during the Medieval Period; An Imperial Interlude: Kṛṣṇadevarāya; Early Modern Variations; Nīti and Karaṇam Culture; Conclusion; Notes; 3 Purāṇa as Brahminic Ideology; The Five Distinguishing Marks; Purāṇizing the Folk Tradition; Purāṇa: What it is and What it is Not; The Author/Speaker of the Purāṇas; Purānạ and Orality |
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What the Purāṇas SayWhat the Purāṇas do not Say; The Change in the Nature of the Purāṇas; Notes; 4 Coconut and Honey: Sanskrit and Telugu in Medieval Andhra; The Śaiva Protest; Mārga and Deśi; Separation of Styles; The Late-Medieval Crystallization; Notes; References; 5 Multiple Lives of a Text: The Sumati Śatakamu in Colonial Andhra; From Nīti to Morals; A Telugu Book on Nīti; A Guide to Success; Probable Readership of the SS; Śataka Genre; C.P. Brown and the SS; Features of Oral Transmission; The Metrics of Kandamu; Features of the PSS; Features of Literary Style; Popularity of the SS |
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Critical Editions of the SS and Authorship of the SSBhīmana vs. Baddĕna; Conclusion; Notes; References; 6 When Does Sīta Cease to be Sīta: Notes Toward a Cultural Grammar of Indian Narratives; Sītā in Sundarakāṇḍa; Problematics of Uttarakāṇḍa; Sītā in Selected Non-Vālmīki Versions; Sītā in the Twentieth Century; An Ecology of Indian Narratives; Notes; References; 7 A Rāmāyaṇa of Their Own: Women's Oral Tradition in Telugu; Some Background; The Songs; The Structure of the Songs; Sītāyana; Non-Brahmin Songs; Conclusion; Notes |
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8 The Politics of Telugu Ramayanas: Colonialism, Print Culture, and Literary MovementsThe Rāmāyaṇa Tradition and Vālmīki; Bhakti-ization and Iconization of Rāma's Story; Change in the Status of Non-Brahmins; Modernity and its Respondents; Conclusion; Notes; 9 Epics and Ideologies: Six Telugu Folk Epics; The Epic Stories; Epic Communities; Sex-Role Reversals; Secondary Epic Formations; Deified Virgin and Chaste Wife; Conclusion; Notes; References; 10 Texture and Authority: Telugu Riddles and Enigmas; Pŏḍupukatha; Other Riddle Forms; Literary Riddles; Riddles with Stories |
| Notes |
Originally published: Ranikhet : Permanent Black in association with Ashoka University, 2016 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 12, 2017) |
| Subject |
Telugu literature -- History and criticism
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Sanskrit literature -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- Indic.
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Manners and customs
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Sanskrit literature
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Telugu literature
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Andhra Pradesh (India) -- Social life and customs
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India -- Andhra Pradesh
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Subrahmanyam, Sanjay, writer of introduction
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| LC no. |
2017027759 |
| ISBN |
143846777X |
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9781438467771 |
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