Pingali Suranna wrote during the Vijayanagara period, the heyday of classical Telugu poetry.Velcheru Narayana Rao is Krishnadevaraya Professor of Languages and Cultures of Asia at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the author of pathbreaking works on the history of Telugu and Sanskrit literature and poetics.David Shulman is professor of Indian studies and comparative religion at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and one of the preeminent scholars of South Asian literature.
25 Ebooks por David Shulman
Pingali Suranna: The Sound of the Kiss, or The Story That Must Never Be Told
Composed in the mid-sixteenth century, The Sound of the Kiss, or The Story That Must Never Be Told, could be considered the first novel written in South Asia. Telugu, the language spoken in today’s A …
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David Shulman: Classical Telugu Poetry
This groundbreaking anthology opens a window on a thousand years of classical poetry in Telugu, the mellifluous language of Andhra Pradesh in southern India. The classical tradition in Telugu is one …
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€99.85
David Shulman: From Hire to Liar
‘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 versi …
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€149.99
Annamayya: God on the Hill
The devotional poems of Annamaya (15th century) are perhaps the most accessible and universal achievement of classical Telugu literature, one of the major literatures of pre-modern India. Annamaya ef …
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€28.32
Heike Oberlin & David Shulman: Two Masterpieces of Kutiyattam
Kutiyattam, India’s only living traditional Sanskrit theatre, has been continually performed in Kerala for at least a thousand years. The actors and drummers create an entire world in the empty space …
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€64.26
David Shulman & Guy G. Stroumsa: Self and Self-Transformations in the History of Religions
This book brings together scholars of a variety of the world’s major civilizations to focus on the universal theme of inner transformation. The idea of the "self" is a cultural formation li …
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€42.24
David Shulman & Guy G. Stroumsa: Dream Cultures
This volume offers a comparative, cross-cultural history of dreams. The essays examine a wide range of texts concerning dreams, as culled from a rich variety of religious contexts: China, India, the …
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€117.74
Don Handelman & David Shulman: God Inside Out
This book offers a new exploration of the mythology of the Hindu god Siva, who spends his time playing dice with his wife, to whom he habitually loses. The result of the game is our world, which turn …
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€57.91
Galit Hasan-Rokem & David Shulman: Untying the Knot
This book collects eighteen previously unpublished essays on the riddle–a genre of discourse found in virtually every human culture. Hasan-Rokem and Shulman have drawn these essays from a variety of …
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€36.96
Annamayya: God on the Hill
The devotional poems of Annamaya (15th century) are perhaps the most accessible and universal achievement of classical Telugu literature, one of the major literatures of pre-modern India. Annamaya ef …
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€28.28
Velcheru Narayana Rao & David Shulman: Srinatha
David Shulman and Velcheru Narayana Rao offer a groundbreaking cultural biography of Srinatha, arguably the most creative figure in the thousand-year history of Telugu literature. Their study, which …
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€35.38
David H. P. (Lafayette College, USA) Shulman: The Presentation of Self in Contemporary Social Life
The Presentation of Self in Contemporary Social Life covers the popular theories of Erving Goffman, and shows modern applications of dramaturgical analysis in a wide range of social contexts. David S …
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€64.34
David Shulman: Classical Telugu Poetry
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 Nara …
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€19.99
Pingali Suranna: The Demon’s Daughter
The Demon’s Daughter (Prabhavati-pradyumnamu) is a sixteenth-century novel by the south Indian poet Pingali Suranna, originally written in Telugu, the language of present-day Andhra Pradesh. Suranna …
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€31.99
David H. P. (Lafayette College, USA) Shulman: The Presentation of Self in Contemporary Social Life
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€63.41
David Shulman & Velcheru Narayana Rao: A Poem at the Right Moment
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 …
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€40.99
Margaret Olin & David Shulman: The Bitter Landscapes of Palestine
Using both photographs and written narratives, The Bitter Landscapes of Palestine provides a depiction of the lives and struggles faced by Palestinians living in the occupied Palestinian territories …
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€37.99
David Shulman: AXION: The Memory Rights Uprising
AXION: The Memory Rights Uprising is a provocative cautionary tale set in the very near future when dramatic breakthroughs in neuroscience and the first complete molecular decoding of a human memory …
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€10.29
Margaret Olin & David Shulman: Bitter Landscapes of Palestine
Using both photographs and written narratives, The Bitter Landscapes of Palestine provides a depiction of the lives and struggles faced by Palestinians living in the occupied Palestinian territories …
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€36.11
David Shulman: Freedom and Despair
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 a …
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€28.03
David Shulman: Spring, Heat, Rains
Rocks. Goats. Dry shrubs. Buffaloes. Thorns. A fallen tamarind tree. Such were the sights that greeted David Shulman on his arrival in the South Indian state of Andhra Pradesh in the spring of 2006. …
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€34.56
Sheldon Pollock: Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern Asia
In the past two decades, scholars have transformed our understanding of the interactions between India and the West since the consolidation of British power on the subcontinent around 1800. While ack …
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€39.34
David Shulman: The Presentation of Self in Contemporary Social Life
The Presentation of Self in Contemporary Social Life covers the popular theories of Erving Goffman, and shows modern applications of dramaturgical analysis in a wide range of social context …
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€72.99
David Shulman: More than Real
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 …
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€75.60
David Shulman: Tamil
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 …
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€47.45
