Ritter, Valerie.

Kāma's Flowers : Nature in Hindi Poetry and Criticism, 1885-1925. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (370 pages) - SUNY Series in Hindu Studies . - SUNY Series in Hindu Studies .

Kāma's Flowers: Nature in Hindi Poetry and Criticism, 1885-1925 -- Kāma's Flowers: Nature in Hindi Poetry and Criticism, 1885-1925 -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Transliteration Conventions and Abbreviations -- Note on Translations -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Terms of Engagement: A Guide to the Assumptions of Hindi Poetics -- Chapter 2: Critical Nature: Defining Hindi Poetic Modernity -- Chapter 3: Nature in Translation: Goldsmith and Pope in Hindi -- Chapter 4: Realizing Classical Poetics: Recasting Sanskritic Landscapes -- Chapter 5: Independent Subjects: Modern Modes of Nature as a Literary Subject -- Chapter 6: Embodying the World: A Macrocosm of Natural Objects -- Chapter 7: Women Problems: Poetics without Śṛṅgāra -- Chapter 8: A Critical Interlude: Rāmacandra Śukla and "Natural Scenes in Poetry" (1923) -- Chapter 9: The Prospect of Chāyāvād, 1920-25: Developing Perspectives on Natural Poetics -- Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index.

Explores the transformation of Hindi poetry as it reflects a changing society during the period from 1885 to 1925.

9781438435671


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