The Demon's Daughter
A Love Story from South India
1st Edition
Published on 1. February 2012
138 pages
978-0-7914-8215-5 (ISBN)
Description
This sixteenth-century work has a modern sensibility, presenting characters' inner worlds and understanding love as the fullest realization of the individual.
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Velcheru Narayana Rao is Krishnadevaraya Professor of Languages and Cultures of Asia at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. David Shulman is Professor of Indian Studies and Comparative Religion at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. They are the co-translators of The Sound of the Kiss, or The Story That Must Never Be Told by Pin³gal i Suµranna and God on The Hill: Temple Poems from Tirupati by Annamayya.
Content
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Demon's Daughter: A Love Story from South India
1. Prayers
2. The Goose's Commission
3. Pradyumma Sends a Letter
4. The Goose Interrogates the Parrot
5. The Lovers Meet
Afterword: The Sixteenth-Century Breakthrough
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Demon's Daughter: A Love Story from South India
1. Prayers
2. The Goose's Commission
3. Pradyumma Sends a Letter
4. The Goose Interrogates the Parrot
5. The Lovers Meet
Afterword: The Sixteenth-Century Breakthrough
Notes
Index
