R: [Y-Indology] theory and practice in sanskrit and dravidian kavya

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Hi Phillip.

I suppose you have read Zvelebil's Tamil Literature, which can at least

partially reply to your questions. Extremely valuable is the work of one of

my dearest friends, Sasha, alias DUBIANSKI, ALEXANDER M., Ritual and

Mythological Sources of the Early Tamil Poetry; also the book of another

good friend of mine is TIEKEN, H. Kavya in South India. Old Tamil Cankam

Poetry. Martha Selby is the author of another intriguing essay, *Rasa and

Mey-p-patu in Sanskrit and Tamil*, The Journal of Oriental Research, Volumes

LXIV-LXVII, 1998 (Madras: The Kuppuswami Sastri Research Institute). Edwin

Thumboo, *The Search For Style And Theme: A Personal Account* in *The

WriterÕs Sense of the Contemporary: Papers in Southeast Asian and Australian

Literature*, Eds. Bruce Bennett, Ee Tiang Hong, Ron Shepherd, The Centre for

Studies in Australian Literature, 1982: 1-7, may in its turn suggest you

something of very useful; and I consider as a *classic* Lienhard, Siegfried,

A history of classical poetry: Sanskrit - Pali - Prakrit Wiesbaden,

Harrassowitz, 1984. Hart, George L. 1979. Poets of the Tamil Anthologies:

Ancient Poems of Love and War, Princeton, Princeton University Press is very

brilliant. Norman Cutler, Professor at the University of Chicago, is a

specialist in this topic.

I shall check something else for you, but I am out of my home for familiar

problems, and I cannot, at the moment, add other essays or books.

Cheers, Daniela Rossella

 

 

 

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>Da: phillip.ernest

>A: indology

>Oggetto: [Y-Indology] theory and practice in sanskrit and dravidian kavya

>Data: Ven, 4 feb 2005 22:11

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> I have been reading in David Smith's book on the Haravijaya about the ways

> in which the sanskrit literary critics' theories of rasa and dhvani were

> at variance with the practice of many poets. I had not seen this fact

emphasized

> before and I wonder what other sanskritists have written about it. I also

> wonder if there may be a similar gap between kavi and critic in the tamil

> and other dravidian literary traditions, if the theory of the interior

landscape

> was more descriptive and less prescrpitive than theories of rasa and dhvani

> in the sanskrit tradition.

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> Phillip

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