A History of Indian Literature, 500-1399: From Courtly to the PopularThe Present Volume Deals With The First Nine Hundred Years Of The Medieval Period Of Indian Literary History.A History Of Indian Literature Is An Account Of The Literary Activities Of The Indian People Carried Through In Many Languages And Under Different Social Conditions. It Is The Story Of A Multilingual Literature, A Plurality Of Linguistic Expressions And Cultural Experience And Also Of The Remarkable Unity Underlying Them. |
Contents
The Poetry of Ecstasy | 27 |
The World of Sanskrit Plays and Other Traditions | 52 |
Epic History Hagiography | 69 |
The Prose Narratives and the Short Verses | 92 |
Its Configurations | 118 |
Transcreations of the Epics | 129 |
CHAPTER EIGHT | 148 |
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