The Story of Manu

Informationen zum Autor Velcheru Narayana Rao is the Krishnadevaraya Emeritus Professor of Languages and Cultures of Asia at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. David Shulman is Renee Lang Professor of Humanistic Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Klappentext The Story of Manu, by sixteenth-century poet Allasani Peddana, is the definitive literary monument of Telugu civilization and a powerful embodiment of the culture of Vijayanagara, the last of the great premodern south Indian states. It describes kingship and its exigencies at the time of Krishnadevaraya, Peddanäs close friend and patron. Zusammenfassung The Story of Manu, by sixteenth-century poet Allasani Peddana, is the definitive literary monument of Telugu civilization and a powerful embodiment of the culture of Vijayanagara, the last of the great premodern south Indian states. It describes kingship and its exigencies at the time of Krishnadevaraya, Peddana’s close friend and patron.

Product details

• Authors: Allasaani, Allasani Peddana, Peddana Allasani
• Assisted by: Velcheru Narayana Rao (Translation), David Shulman (Translation), Shulman David (Translation)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.01.2015
• EAN: 9780674427761
• ISBN: 978-0-674-42776-1
• No. of pages: 512
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 211 mm x 37 mm
• Series: Murty Classical Library of India; Murty Classical Library of Ind; Murty Classical Library of India; Murty Classical Library of Ind; Murty Classical Library of India - HUP
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Classic fiction: general and literary