In the Shade of the Golden Palace: Alaol and Middle Bengali Poetics in Arakan

ISBN-13: 9780190860332 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 400 str.

Thibaut D'Hubert

Recenzje

In this wonderful book, Thibaut d'Hubert shows that what may appear as marginal poet in a marginal location — Ālāol in seventeenth century Mrauk U — was in fact a major poet whose poetry and poetics illuminate crucial questions of literary creativity, cultural transmission, and aesthetic thinking and practice at the intersection of multiple languages in the early modern world. A masterful study, this richly textured and wide-ranging book will guide generations of scholars and students into how to study literature in ways that do justice to the complexity of texts, authors, and audiences. It will be on reading lists for every course on South Asian and world literatures.

O autorze

Thibaut d'Hubert is an assistant professor of South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago.