Classical Sanskrit Tragedy: The Concept of Suffering and Pathos in Medieval India Sarkar Bihani
Classical Sanskrit Tragedy: The Concept of Suffering and Pathos in Medieval India Sarkar Bihani It is often assumed that classical Sanskrit poetry and drama lack a concern with the tragic. In the…
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Classical Sanskrit Tragedy: The Concept of Suffering and Pathos in Medieval India Sarkar Bihani
It is often assumed that classical Sanskrit poetry and drama lack a concern with the tragic. In the first study of tragedy in classical Sanskrit literature, Sarkar draws on a wide range of Sanskrit dramas, poems and treatises - much of them translated for the first time into English - to provide a complete history of the tragic in Indian literature from the second to the fourth centuries.Looking at Kalidasa, the most celebrated writer of Sanskrit poetry and drama (kavya), this book argues that constructions of absence and grief are central to Kalidasa's compositions and that these 'tragic middles' are much more sophisticated than previously understood. However, as Bihani Sarkar makes clear in this book, this is far from the case.
Through a close literary For Kalidasa, tragic middles are modes of thinking, in which he confronts theological and philosophical issues.
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