Cloud of Longing - A New Translation and Eco-Aesthetic Study of Kalidasa''s Meghaduta

A full-length study and new translation of the great Sanskrit poet K?lid?sa's famed Meghad?ta (literally "The Cloud Messenger,") The Cloud of Longing focuses on the poem's interfacing of nature, feeling, figurative language, and mythic memory.

List of contents

• Introduction


• I.The Meghaduta of Kalidasa


• II. Liquid Meaning in Sanskrt Poetics


• III. Clouds


• IV. Vastunirdesa


• V. The Argument


• VI. The Cloud's Way


• VII. Meteorology and Metaphor


• VIII. Alaka


• VIII. Critical Considerations

About the author

E. H. Rick Jarow is Associate Professor of Religion and Asian Studies at Vassar College. He is the author of Tales for the Dying: The Death Narrative of the Bhagavata-Purana and has numerous published articles on Indology, Kalidasa and on the reception of Indian texts in the West.

Summary

A full-length study and new translation of the great Sanskrit poet K?lid?sa's famed Meghad?ta (literally “The Cloud Messenger,”) The Cloud of Longing focuses on the poem's interfacing of nature, feeling, figurative language, and mythic memory.

Product details

• Authors: E. H. Rick Jarow, E. H. Rick (Associate Professor of Religiou Jarow, Jarow E. H. Rick
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.11.2021
• EAN: 9780197566640
• ISBN: 978-0-19-756664-0
• No. of pages: 216
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, comparative religion, RELIGION / Hinduism / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Religion, Ancient religions & mythologies, Ancient religions and Mythologies