Kāma's Flowers
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Kāma's Flowers

Nature in Hindi Poetry and Criticism, 1885-1925

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Kāma's Flowers

Nature in Hindi Poetry and Criticism, 1885-1925

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Kama's Flowers documents the transformation of Hindi poetry during the crucial period of 1885-1925. As Hindi was becoming a national language and Indian nationalism was emerging, Hindi authors articulated a North Indian version of modernity by reenvisioning nature. While their writing has previously been seen as an imitation of European Romanticism, Valerie Ritter shows its unique and particular function in North India. Description of the natural world recalled traditional poetics, particularly erotic and devotional poetics, but was now used to address sociopolitical concerns, as authors created literature to advocate for a "national character" and to address a growing audience of female readers. Examining Hindi classics, translations from English poetry, literary criticism, and little-known popular works, Ritter combines translations with fresh literary analysis to show the pivotal role of nature in how modernity was understood. Bringing a new body of literature to English-language readers, Kama's Flowers also reveals the origins of an influential visual culture that resonates today in Bollywood cinema.

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Publisher
SUNY Press
Year
2011
ISBN
9781438435671
Topic
Literatura
Subtopic
Crítica literaria asiática

Table of contents

  1. Kāma’s Flowers: Nature in Hindi Poetry and Criticism, 1885–1925
  2. Kāma’s Flowers: Nature in Hindi Poetry and Criticism, 1885–1925
  3. Contents
  4. Preface
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Transliteration Conventions and Abbreviations
  7. Note on Translations
  8. Abbreviations
  9. Chapter 1: Terms of Engagement: A Guide to the Assumptions of Hindi Poetics
  10. Chapter 2: Critical Nature: Defining Hindi Poetic Modernity
  11. Chapter 3: Nature in Translation: Goldsmith and Pope in Hindi
  12. Chapter 4: Realizing Classical Poetics: Recasting Sanskritic Landscapes
  13. Chapter 5: Independent Subjects: Modern Modes of Nature as a Literary Subject
  14. Chapter 6: Embodying the World: A Macrocosm of Natural Objects
  15. Chapter 7: Women Problems: Poetics without Śṛṅgāra
  16. Chapter 8: A Critical Interlude: Rāmacandra Śukla and “Natural Scenes in Poetry” (1923)
  17. Chapter 9: The Prospect of Chāyāvād, 1920–25: Developing Perspectives on Natural Poetics
  18. Concluding Remarks
  19. Notes
  20. Select Bibliography
  21. Index