The Cloud of Longing
A New Translation and Eco-Aesthetic Study of Kalidasa's Meghaduta
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 9 November 2021
- ISBN 9780197566633
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages216 pages
- Size 143x216x25 mm
- Weight 454 g
- Language English 161
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Short description:
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.
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A full-length study and new translation of the great Sanskrit poet Kalidasa's famed Meghaduta (literally "The Cloud Messenger,") The Cloud of Longing focuses on the poem's interfacing of nature, feeling, figuration, and mythic memory. This work is unique in its attention given to the natural world in light of the nexus of language and love that is the chief characteristic (lakshana) of the poem. Along with a scrupulous study of the approximately 111 verses of the poem, The Cloud of Longing offers an extended look at how nature was envisioned by classical India's supreme poet as he portrays a cloud's imagined voyage over the fields, valleys, rivers, mountains, and towns of classical India.
This sustained, close reading of the Meghaduta will speak to contemporary readers as well as to those committed to developing a more in-depth experience of the natural world. The Cloud of Longing fills a gap in the translation of classical Indian texts, as well as in studies of world literature, religion, and into an emerging integrative environmental discipline.
Rick Jarow's The Cloud of Longing is an interesting mediation on poetry and nature that offers new ways of understanding Ka¯&lida¯&sa's vision of nature as a dynamic convergence of a geographical landscape with poetic imagination, myth, and longing.
Table 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
