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A Vaisnava Poet in Early Modern Bengal - Kavikarnapura's Splendour of Speech (Hardcover)
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A Vaisnava Poet in Early Modern Bengal - Kavikarnapura's Splendour of Speech (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Theology and Religion Monographs
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This book examines the practice of poetry in the devotional
Vaisnava tradition inspired by Sri Krsna Caitanya (1486-1533),
through a detailed study of the Sanskrit poetic works of
Kavikarnapura, one of the most significant sixteenth-century
Caitanya Vaisnava poets and theologians. It places his ideas in the
context both of Sanskrit literary theory (by exploring his use of
earlier works of Sanskrit criticism) and of Vaisnava theology (by
tracing the origins of his theological ideas to earlier Vaisnava
teachers, especially his guru Srinatha). Both Kavikarnapura's
poetics as well as the style of his poetry is in many ways at odds
with those of his time, particularly with respect to the place of
phonetic ornamentation and rasa. Like later early modern theorists,
Kavikarnapura reaches back to the earliest Sanskrit poeticians whom
he attempts to harmonise with the theories current in his time, to
develop a new poetics that values both literary ornamentation and
the suggestion of emotion through rasa. This book argues that the
reasons of and purposes for Kavikarnapura's literary innovations
are firmly rooted in his unique Vaisnava theology, and exemplifies
this through a careful reading of select passages from the
Ananda-vrndavana, his poetic retelling of Krsna's play in
Vrndavana.
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