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The Story of Manu (Hardcover)
Allasani Peddana; Translated by Velcheru Narayana Rao, David Shulman
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Manucaritramu, " or The Story of Manu, " by the early
sixteenth-century poet Allasani Peddana, is the definitive literary
monument of Telugu civilization and a powerful embodiment of the
imperial culture of Vijayanagara, the last of the great premodern
south Indian states. It is the story of Svarochisha Manu, who ruled
over the previous cosmic age and who serves here as prototype for
the first human being. Peddana explores the dramatic displacements,
imaginative projections, and intricate workings of desire necessary
for Manu s birth and formation. The Story of Manu" is also a book
about kingship and its exigencies at the time of Krishnadevaraya,
the most powerful of the Vijayanagara rulers, who was a close
friend and patron of the poet. The Story of Manu," presented in the
Telugu script alongside the first translation into any language, is
a true masterpiece of early modern south Indian literature.
The Murty Classical Library of India makes available original
texts and modern English translations of the masterpieces of
literature and thought from across the whole spectrum of Indic
languages over the past two millennia in the most authoritative and
accessible formats on offer anywhere."
Spoken by eighty million people in South Asia and a diaspora that
stretches across the globe, Tamil is one of the great world
languages, and one of the few ancient languages that survives as a
mother tongue for so many speakers. David Shulman presents a
comprehensive cultural history of Tamil-language, literature, and
civilization-emphasizing how Tamil speakers and poets have
understood the unique features of their language over its long
history. Impetuous, musical, whimsical, in constant flux, Tamil is
a living entity, and this is its biography. Two stories animate
Shulman's narrative. The first concerns the evolution of Tamil's
distinctive modes of speaking, thinking, and singing. The second
describes Tamil's major expressive themes, the stunning poems of
love and war known as Sangam poetry, and Tamil's influence as a
shaping force within Hinduism. Shulman tracks Tamil from its
earliest traces at the end of the first millennium BCE through the
classical period, 850 to 1200 CE, when Tamil-speaking rulers held
sway over southern India, and into late-medieval and modern times,
including the deeply contentious politics that overshadow Tamil
today. Tamil is more than a language, Shulman says. It is a body of
knowledge, much of it intrinsic to an ancient culture and
sensibility. "Tamil" can mean both "knowing how to love"-in the
manner of classical love poetry-and "being a civilized person." It
is thus a kind of grammar, not merely of the language in its spoken
and written forms but of the creative potential of its speakers.
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more
at www.luminosoa.org. What are the pleasures of reading
translations of South Asian literature, and what does it take to
enjoy a translated text? This volume provides opportunities to
explore such questions by bringing together a whole set of new
translations by David Shulman, noted scholar of South Asia. The
translated selections come from a variety of Indian languages,
genres, and periods, from the classical to the contemporary. The
translations are accompanied by short essays written to help
readers engage and enjoy them. Some of these essays provide
background to enhance reading of the translation, whereas others
model how to expand appreciation in comparative and broader ways.
Together, the translations and the accompanying essays form an
essential guide for people interested in literature and art from
South Asia.
The classical tradition in Telugu, the mellifluous language of
Andhra Pradesh in southern India, is one of the richest yet least
explored of all South Asian literatures. In this volume, Velcheru
Narayana Rao and David Shulman have brought together mythological,
religious, and secular texts by twenty major poets who wrote
between the eleventh and nineteenth centuries, providing an
authoritative volume overview of one of the world's most creative
poetic traditions. An informative, engaging introduction fleshes
out the history of Telugu literature, situating its poets in
relation to significant literary themes and historical developments
and discussing the relationship between Telugu and the classical
literature and poetry of Sanskrit.
From the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, the major
cultures of southern India underwent a revolution in sensibility
reminiscent of what had occurred in Renaissance Italy. During this
time, the imagination came to be recognized as the defining feature
of human beings. "More than Real" draws our attention to a period
in Indian history that signified major civilizational change and
the emergence of a new, proto-modern vision.
In general, India conceived of the imagination as a causative
agent: things we perceive are real because we imagine them. David
Shulman illuminates this distinctiveness and shows how it differed
radically from Western notions of reality and models of the mind.
Shulman's explication offers insightful points of comparison with
ancient Greek, medieval Islamic, and early modern European theories
of mind, and returns Indology to its rightful position of
intellectual relevance in the humanities.
At a time when contemporary ideologies and language wars
threaten to segregate the study of pre-modern India into linguistic
silos, Shulman demonstrates through his virtuoso readings of
important literary works works translated lyrically by the author
from Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu, and Malayalam that Sanskrit and the
classical languages of southern India have been intimately
interwoven for centuries."
Vedanta Deshika (1268-1369) was perhaps the most outstanding
Sanskrit author in the South Indian tradition focused on Vishnu and
one of the most original poets in all of Sanskrit literature. Two
of his best-known works appear here. "The Mission of the Goose," in
the genre of messenger-poems modeled on Kali dasa's famous "Cloud
Messenger," has Rama send a goose with a message for Sita, flying
to Lanka over graphically described Tamil temples. "Compassion" is
a meditation about the compassionate aspect of Vishnu, particularly
as embodied in the great temple of Tirupati. Appayya Dikshita (1520
-1592) and Nila kantha Dikshita (1580 1644) belong to one family as
well as to the same religious world centered on Shiva. Appayya's
"Self-Surrender" to his deity is the most personal of the
polymath's works. In "Peace" his great-nephew Nila kantha,
political high achiever as well as poet, reevaluates renunciation
and transcendence in a skeptical, intimate, and deeply unsettling
voice.
A Poem at the Right Moment collects, and preserves,
poems—called catus—that have circulated orally for
centuries in South India. The poems are remarkable for their wit
and precision, their lyrical insight on the commonplace, their
fascination with sensual experience, and their exploration of the
connection between language and desire. Taken together
the catus offer a penetrating critical vision and an
understanding of the classical traditions of Telugu, Tamil, and
Sanskrit. Each poem is presented in a contemporary English
translation along with the Indian-language original. An
introduction and a concluding essay explore in detail the stories
and texts that comprise the catu system. This title is
part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates
University of California Press’s mission to seek out and
cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1998.
"There are always clients to please, rules to subvert, difficult
tasks to perform, work to shirk, and upward mobility to seek. . . .
Most people with work experience have encountered at least some
version of exaggerated resumes, exploitative bosses,
self-interested shirking, collusion against disliked colleagues,
lying to clients, and countless other variants of lies on the job.
This book tells the tale of such lies in the workplace and examines
their impact on ethics, administrating work, and productivity."
from the IntroductionAccording to David Shulman, deception is a
pervasive element of daily working life. Sometimes it is an
official part of one's work-as in the case study he offers of
private detectives, who lie for a living-but more often it is
simply part of the fabric of life on the job. Shulman argues that
workplace cultures socialize individuals into using deception as a
tool in performing their everyday work. To make his point he
focuses not on extreme cases but rather on less obvious forms of
deception, such as pretending to show deference, shirking one's
work, crafting misleading accounting reports, making false claims
to customers and coworkers, and covering up business
transgressions. Shulman analyzes the motives, tactics,
rationalizations, and ethical ramifications of acting deceptively
in the workplace. From Hire to Liar offers readers both detailed
accounts of workplace lies and new ways to think about the
important effects of everyday workplace deceptions."
Lately, it seems as if we wake up to a new atrocity each day. Every
morning is now a ritual of scrolling through our Twitter feeds or
scanning our newspapers for the latest updates on fresh horrors
around the globe. Despite the countless protests we attend, the
phone calls we make, or the streets we march, it sometimes feels
like no matter how hard we fight, the relentless crush of injustice
will never abate. David Shulman knows intimately what it takes to
live your beliefs, to return, day after day, to the struggle,
despite knowing you are often more likely to lose than win.
Interweaving powerful stories and deep meditations, Freedom and
Despair offers vivid firsthand reports from the occupied West Bank
in Palestine as seen through the eyes of an experienced Israeli
peace activist who has seen the Israeli occupation close up as it
impacts on the lives of all Palestinian civilians. Alongside a
handful of beautifully written and often shocking tales from the
field, Shulman meditates deeply on how to understand the evils
around him, what it means to persevere as an activist decade after
decade, and what it truly means to be free. The violent realities
of the occupation are on full display. We get to know and
understand the Palestinian shepherds and farmers and Israeli
volunteers who face this situation head-on with nonviolent
resistance. Shulman does not hold back on acknowledging the daily
struggles that often leave him and his fellow activists full of
despair. Inspired by these committed individuals who are not
prepared to be silent or passive, Shulman suggests a model for
ordinary people everywhere. Anyone prepared to take a risk and
fight their oppressive political systems, he argues, can make a
difference-if they strive to act with compassion and to keep hope
alive. This is the moving story of a man who continues to fight for
good in the midst of despair. An indispensable book in our era of
reactionary politics and refugee crises, political violence and
ecological devastation, Freedom and Despair is a gripping memoir of
struggle, activism, and hope for peace.
A Poem at the Right Moment collects, and preserves,
poems—called catus—that have circulated orally for
centuries in South India. The poems are remarkable for their wit
and precision, their lyrical insight on the commonplace, their
fascination with sensual experience, and their exploration of the
connection between language and desire. Taken together
the catus offer a penetrating critical vision and an
understanding of the classical traditions of Telugu, Tamil, and
Sanskrit. Each poem is presented in a contemporary English
translation along with the Indian-language original. An
introduction and a concluding essay explore in detail the stories
and texts that comprise the catu system. This title is
part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates
University of California Press’s mission to seek out and
cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1998.
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