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A Poetics of Power in Andhra, 1323-1450 CE.

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Title/Author:	A Poetics of Power in Andhra, 1323-1450 CE./
Author:	Jones, Jamal Andre.
Description:	1 online resource (340 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-08(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International79-08A(E).
Subject:	South Asian studies. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9780355804010

A Poetics of Power in Andhra, 1323-1450 CE.
Jones, Jamal Andre.

A Poetics of Power in Andhra, 1323-1450 CE. - 1 online resource (340 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-08(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Chicago, 2018.

Includes bibliographical references

This dissertation examines the shifting social, political, and religious significance of poets in southern India and the Deccan during the fourteenth- and fifteenth-centuries. To this end, the project centers on the career of Gaurana, a poet and scholar from a family of courtly brahmans in Telugu-speaking south India (present-day Telangana and Andhra Pradesh). Modern historians and literary scholars have interpreted Gaurana's compositions in Telugu dvipada---typically considered a non-elite genre---as evidence that he affiliated with the Virasaivas, an egalitarian devotional movement. How- ever, through an analysis of his Telugu compositions and his neglected treatises in Sanskrit poetics, I argue that Gaurana's relationship to the Virasaiva poets and similarly inclusive literary traditions was one of competition and appropriation rather than collaboration.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780355804010Subjects--Topical Terms:

1181839
South Asian studies.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

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