Robert E Goodwin
Biographic Data
| ID | 3830180 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert E Goodwin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert E |
| FAMILY NAME | Goodwin |
| SIGNATURE | GOODWIN R E |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Paradise in a Prison Cell
It takes a determined sceptic to doubt the attribution of the Svapnavoāsavadatta (SV) to Bhāsa, a playwright Kālidāsa himself named as so favoured in his time that the younger generation of nāṭyakāras had a difficult time getting a hearing. After sifting through the evidence, the most likely conclusion is that the play we have of that name (or a variant), first discovered for Indology by T. Ganapati Sastri in 1909, is a somewhat shorter version o…
Sanskrit Criticism
Ratnākara's Haravijaya
This book is the first study in depth of a major aspect of Indian culture, the Sanskrit court epic. Focusing on the long neglected , David Smith begins a fundamental revaluation of classical Sanskrit poetry. He subjects the formal poetics (Alamkara-sastra) to radical criticism while the poetry itself is approached in several ways: as an expression of court society, as a religious statement, as symbolism and, not least, in its own terms. The Harav…
Dākṣiṇya and Rasa in the Vikramorvaśīya
This verse comes at the end of the 2nd Act of Kālidāsa's Vikramorvaśīya (hereafter V). It is spoken by the royal hero Purūravas moments after his wife Auśīnarī has left the scene in a jealous pique, refusing to accept his anunaya , his attempt at conciliation. Auśīnarī had confronted him with evidence of his affair with the apsaras Urvaśī, a love-verse that the nymph had inscribed on a piece of birch-bark. Urvaśī had by then already left the love…
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Dākṣiṇya and Rasa in the Vikramorvaśīya
This verse comes at the end of the 2nd Act of Kālidāsa's Vikramorvaśīya (hereafter V). It is spoken by the royal hero Purūravas moments after his wife Auśīnarī has left the scene in a jealous pique, refusing to accept his anunaya , his attempt at conciliation. Auśīnarī had confronted him with evidence of his affair with the apsaras Urvaśī, a love-verse that the nymph had inscribed on a piece of birch-bark. Urvaśī had by then already left the love…
Ratnākara's Haravijaya
This book is the first study in depth of a major aspect of Indian culture, the Sanskrit court epic. Focusing on the long neglected , David Smith begins a fundamental revaluation of classical Sanskrit poetry. He subjects the formal poetics (Alamkara-sastra) to radical criticism while the poetry itself is approached in several ways: as an expression of court society, as a religious statement, as symbolism and, not least, in its own terms. The Harav…
Sanskrit Criticism
Paradise in a Prison Cell
It takes a determined sceptic to doubt the attribution of the Svapnavoāsavadatta (SV) to Bhāsa, a playwright Kālidāsa himself named as so favoured in his time that the younger generation of nāṭyakāras had a difficult time getting a hearing. After sifting through the evidence, the most likely conclusion is that the play we have of that name (or a variant), first discovered for Indology by T. Ganapati Sastri in 1909, is a somewhat shorter version o…
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