Srinatha: The Poet Who Made Gods and Kings

by David Dean Shulman and Velcheru Narayana Rao

Book Overview

This groundbreaking cultural biography of Srinatha, arguably the most creative figure in the thousand-year history of Telugu literature., shows how the fourteenth- and fifteenth-century poet revolutionized the classical tradition and effectively created the classical genre of sustained, thematically focused, coherent large-scale compositions. Some of his works are proto-novellas: self-consciously fictional, focused on the development of characters,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199863040
• ISBN13: 9780199863044
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"