The cloud of longing : a new translation and eco-aesthetic study of Kālidāsa's Meghadūta / E. H. Rick Jarow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jarow, Rick, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Sanskrit poetry--Translations into English.

Sanskrit poetry.

Kālidāsa. Meghadūta.

Kālidāsa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (216 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Language Note:

Text in English, partially translated from the Sanskrit.

Summary:

'The Cloud of Longing' focuses on the poem's interfacing of nature, feeling, figuration, and mythic memory. This work is unique in its attention given to the natural world in light of the nexus of language and love that is the chief characteristic of the poem. Along with a scrupulous study of the approximately 111 verses of the poem, 'The Cloud of Longing' offers an extended look at how nature was envisioned by classical India's supreme poet as he portrays a cloud's imagined voyage over the fields, valleys, rivers, mountains, and towns of classical India. This sustained, close reading of the Meghadūta will speak to contemporary readers as well as to those committed to developing a more in-depth experience of the natural world.

Contents:

cover

The Cloud of Longing

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Translation and Transliteration

Introduction: Why Kālidāsa, Why Now?

1. The Meghadūta of Kālidāsa

2. Liquid Meaning in Sanskrit Poetics

3. Clouds

4. Vastunirdeśa

5. The Argument

6. The Cloud's Way

7. Meteorology and Metaphor

8. Alakā

9. Critical Considerations

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-756667-7

0-19-756666-9

OCLC:

1243263906