Extreme poetry : the South Asian movement of simultaneous narration

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Extreme poetry : the South Asian movement of simultaneous narration

Title remainder

the South Asian movement of simultaneous narration

Statement of responsibility

Yigal Bronner

Creator

• Bronner, Yigal

Subject

• Electronic books
• LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian | General
• LITERARY CRITICISM -- General
• Puns and punning in literature
• Puns and punning in literature
• Sanskrit poetry
• Sanskrit poetry -- History and criticism
• TRAVEL -- Special Interest | Literary
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Genre

• Electronic books
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

Beginning in the sixth century C.E. and continuing for more than a thousand years, an extraordinary poetic practice was the trademark of a major literary movement in South Asia. Authors invented a special language to depict both the apparent and hidden sides of disguised or dual characters, and then used it to narrate India's major epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, simultaneously. Originally produced in Sanskrit, these dual narratives eventually worked their way into regional languages, especially Telugu and Tamil, and other artistic media, such as sculptur

Member of

• South Asia across the disciplines

Cataloging source

CDX

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

South Asia across the disciplines