Introduction
| Autor: | E. H. Rick Jarow |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Zdroj: | The Cloud of Longing |
| DOI: | 10.1093/oso/9780197566633.003.0001 |
| Popis: | This chapter makes a case for the study of the Meghadūta within the study of world literature and literary visions of the environment. It discusses the sensibilities of classical Indian poetry (kāvya) and gives an overview of the history of studies of Indian poetry in the West. The next section summarizes the plot and structure of the Meghadūta, Kālidāsa’s celebrated lyric poem about the imagined journey of a cloud through the landscape of India to deliver a message from the protagonist (Yaksha) to his absent beloved. The “tantric sensibility” of the text is discussed along with the importance of the poem’s vision of the natural world. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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