The wisdom of poets

Descripción

"The essays collected here explore the central problems found in Sanskrit literature and in the classical literatures of south India - What is the nature of the poetic voice? What kind of experience is at stake? How does poetic language come to embody truth? How is this truth conceived by the poeticians and theoreticians who produced grammars of poetic perception and effect?" "In this book, the author offers an innovative approach to the poetics of medieval poetry in Tamil and in Telugu, where the poet turns out to be very close to a magician or sorcerer, and the project of poetry is to induce or intensify the presence of God. Several essays deal with the theory of self and the organization of the internal world of imagination, forgetting, and memory in these classical literatures." "This book will be welcomed by scholars and specialists of medieval south Indian and Sanskrit literature."--BOOK JACKET.