| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
| Contents |
Vidyapati and Mithila -- The literary and the political in the fifteenth century -- Writing state and order -- Political ethics or the art of being a man -- Entangled vines of glory: Kīrttilatā and its many worlds |
| Summary |
This title studies the 15th-century north India through an intimate exploration of three compositions of the poet-scholar, Vidyapati: a Sanskrit treatise on writing, a celebratory biography in Apabhramsa, and a collection of mytho-historical tales in Sanskrit. An intimate linguistic, literary, and historical study of these texts reveals a world that is marked by a range of ideas, expertise, literary tropes, ethical regimes and historical consciousness drawn eclectically from sources that we are used to thinking of as belonging to 'diverse' politico-cultural traditions. Vidyapati laced these ideas with contemporary flavour, classicising impulse and useable forms. He was not alone in doing so. As the book shows, many of the ideals extolled in 15th-century literary cultures appear to be those more appropriate for ambitious and expansive political formations associated with an imperial state |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Audience |
Specialized |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from web page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed on April 20, 2020) |
| Subject |
Vidyāpati Ṭhākura, active 15th century -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Vidyāpati Ṭhākura, active 15th century fast |
| Subject |
Literature
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| SUBJECT |
India -- History -- 1000-1526. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064911
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India -- In literature
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| Subject |
India
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780199095360 |
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0199095361 |
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