4 options
The life of a text : performing the Ramcaritmanas of Tulsidas / Philip Lutgendorf.
De Gruyter University of California Press eBook-Package Archive Pre-2000 Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lutgendorf, Philip, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tulasīdāsa, 1532-1623--Stage history.
- Tulasīdāsa.
- Tulasīdāsa, 1532-1623. Rāmacaritamānasa.
- Criticism, Textual.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (486 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [1991]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Life of a Text offers a vivid portrait of one community's interaction with its favorite text-the epic Ramcaritmanas-and the way in which performances of the epic function as a flexible and evolving medium for cultural expression. Anthropologists, historians of religion, and readers interested in the culture of North India and the performance arts will find breadth of subject, careful scholarship, and engaging presentation in this unique and beautifully illustrated examination of Hindi culture. The most popular and influential text of Hindi-speaking North India, the epic Ramcaritmanas is a sixteenth century retelling of the Ramayana story by the poet Tulsidas. This masterpiece of pre-modern Hindi literature has always reached its largely illiterate audiences primarily through oral performance including ceremonial recitation, folksinging, oral exegesis, and theatrical representation. Drawing on fieldwork in Banaras, Lutgendorf breaks new ground by capturing the range of performance techniques in vivid detail and tracing the impact of the epic in its contemporary cultural context.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Contents
- Illustration
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Transliteration
- 1. The Text and the Research Context
- 2. The Text in Recitation and Song
- 3. The Text Expounded: The Development of Mānas-Kathā
- 4. The Art of Mānas-Kathā
- 5. Words Made Flesh: The Text Enacted
- 6. The Text in a Changing Society
- Glossary of Names with Transliteration
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 449-460) and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9786612355530
- 9781282355538
- 1282355538
- 9780520909342
- 0520909348
- 9780585131078
- 0585131074
- OCLC:
- 630527791
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.