| Popis: |
This chapter follows the imagined journey of the Cloud through varied landscapes of India. The phenomenon of “diversion,” also seen in the epic Mahābhārata, is examined as an associative organizing principle of narrative in which one scenario suggests another (as opposed to linear progression). The arc of the journey is examined through close readings of particular verses that describe fabled sites in India’s mythic geography. These are unpacked and analyzed for their exquisite figurative detail. The repeated stops with mountains and dalliances with rivers are shown to be part of Kālidāsa’s eroticized landscape, and comparisons are made with well-known landscape narratives. The actual poetic figures that the poet employs, and how they work, are examined. |
