Yigal Bronner
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3663322 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Yigal Bronner |
| PRENOMES | Yigal |
| SOBRENOME | Bronner |
| ASSINATURA | BRONNER Y |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6492-3280 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 29 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 59 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1998 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Thinking with two heads
In early modern India, and particularly South India—from roughly the sixteenth century until the eighteenth—a new literary vogue emerged in all major literary traditions (Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Sanskrit, Persian). With remarkable salience, we find verses built around absurdity of various kinds and modes. Sometimes it is a matter of pushing the existing literary conventions and figures to an impossible extreme. In other cases, we find …
First Hundred Light Years
The written responses to Mammaṭa's Light on Literature (Kāvyaprakāśa) constitute the largest corpus of works on Sanskrit poetics, with no other corpus even coming close. Yet, with a few exceptions, it is virtually unstudied. This essay focuses on the wave of responses to the Light composed during the first hundred years after its appearance, during which it attracted an unprecedented number of written responses of various types: sketchy notes, co…
A Lasting Vision
A Lasting Vision is dedicated to the Mirror of Literature (Kāvyādarśa), a Sanskrit treatise on poetics composed by Dandin in south India (ca. 700 ce) and to its remarkable career throughout large parts of Asia. The Mirror was adapted and translated into several languages in the southern Indian peninsula (Kannada, Tamil) and the island of Sri Lanka (Sinhala, Pali), as well as in the Tibetan plateau far to the north (Tibetan, Mongolian). In all the…
Thinking on Six Feet
Jāyagauḍa’s Kannaḍakuvalayānanda , the name may suggest, is another run-of-the-mill regional adaptation of Appayya Dīkṣita’s bestseller textbook of Sanskrit poetics— The Joy of the Night Lily ( Kuvalayānanda ). However, a close reading of Jāyagauḍa’s definitions and more importantly, his carefully curated examples, tells a different story. Jāyagauḍa’s text is by no means a slavish translation, nor is his aim to present a brandnew, local theory of…
Cause of Seamless Integration
This paper revisits the longstanding tradition concerning the dual authorship of the Light on Literature (Kāvyaprakāśa), the dominant treatise on Sanskrit poetics in the second millennium CE. The discussion focuses on one case study, a brief comment dismissing the ornament "cause" (hetu), found in the latter part of chapter 10 in the portion traditionally attributed to Mammaṭa's successor Allaṭa (aka Alaka). This passage is analyzed in the broade…
Lasting Vision
Celibate Seducer
Indic Ornaments on Javanese Shores
The Old Javanese Rāmāyaṇa Kakawin, the earliest known Javanese literary work, is based on the sixth-century Sanskrit Bhaṭṭikāvya. It is an outcome of a careful and thorough project of translation and adaptation that took place at a formative moment in the cultural exchange between South and Southeast Asia. In this essay we explore what it was that the Javanese poets set out to capture when they rendered the Bhaṭṭikāvya into Old Javanese, what sor…
Birds of a Feather
Courier poetry is perhaps the richest and most vital literary genre of premodern South Asia, with hundreds of poems in a great variety of languages. But other than dubbing these poems "imitations" of Kālidāsa's classical model, existing scholarship offers very little explanation of why this should be the case: why poets repeatedly turned to this literary form, exactly how they engaged with existing precedents, and what, if anything, was new in th…
A Renaissance Man in Memory
South meets North
During the last decades of the sixteenth century, Banaras began to assert itself as a powerful intellectual centre of a magnitude never seen before in South Asia. Scholars working in all disciplines and from every part of the subcontinent were drawn to this city, where they not only produced voluminous innovative scholarship but also created a deliberative body of scholars and jurists that began to assume all-India responsibilities. By the best e…
Embracing Simultaneity
This essay deals with literary works that combine two or more topics, characters, or plotlines and convey them concurrently to their respective destinations. It is based on my monograph Extreme Poetry: The South Asian Movement of Simultaneous Narration (Bronner 2010), where I discuss this phenomenon at length. Here I will limit myself briefly to presenting three main points: that the dimensions of the śleṣa phenomenon in South Asia are enormous, …
From conqueror to connoisseur
This article is primarily concerned with asking how we can read Kalhaṇa’s Rājataraṅgiṇī as historians, other than by mining it for facts and names or using it as a proof of some South Asian given. I conduct my investigation on a relatively small sample, a well-defined narrative sequence of about 100 verses from the fourth chapter, or ‘wave’, of the River of Kings (4.402–502), which narrates King Jayāpīḍa’s first military campaign. I try to demons…
The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki
Translated by Robert P. Goldman, Sally J. Sutherland Goldman, and Barend A. van Nooten (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009), xviii + 1655 pp. $154.00/£107.00 cloth. With this monumenta
To Be or Not to Be Śiśupāla
Yigal Bronner, Lawrence McCrea, To Be or Not to Be Śiśupāla: Which Version of the Key Speech in Māgha's Great Poem Did He Really Write?, Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 132, No. 3 (July-September 2012), pp. 427-455
A Question of Priority
Khoroche, Peter and Herman Tieken, Poems on Life and Love in Ancient India
A Road Map for Future Studies
Review Article| August 01 2011 A Road Map for Future Studies: The Language of the Gods in the World of Scholars Yigal Bronner Yigal Bronner Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (2): 538–544. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-1264406 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Yigal Bronner; A Road Map …
Extreme Poetry
Beginning in the sixth century C.E. and continuing for more than a thousand years, an extraordinary poetic practice was the trademark of a major literary movement in South Asia. Authors invented a special language to depict both the apparent and hidden sides of disguised or dual characters, and then used it to narrate India's major epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata , simultaneously. Originally produced in Sanskrit, these dual narratives eve…
The Poetics of Ambivalence
Vastutas tu
Blaming the messenger
The last active period in the tradition of Sanskrit poetics, although associated with scholars who for the first time explicitly identified themselves as new, has generally been castigated in modern histories as repetitious and devoid of thoughtfulness. This paper presents a case study dealing with competing analyses of a single short poem by two of the major theorists of this period, Appayya Dīkṣita (sixteenth century) and Jagannātha Paṇḍitarāja…
This Is No Lotus, It Is A Face
In this chapter, the author intends to explore by closely examining a single passage from alaṃ kāraśāstraʾs long history, Daṇḍ inʾs investigation of the simile ( upamā ). The middle portion of Daṇḍ inʾs discussion of the simile deals with factors that may obstruct its aesthetic effect. Daṇḍ inʾs examples of the simile's faults suffice to suggest that his analysis of poetic tongue has its roots in grammar, and is based on a grammatically-trained a…
A Cloud Turned Goose
A vast corpus of Sanskrit poetry (kāvya) was produced over the last thousand years; most of these works reveal a vital and organic relation to the crystallising regional traditions of the subcontinent and to emerging vernacular literatures. Thus we have, for example, the Sanskrit literatures of Kerala, of Bengal-Orissa, of Andhra, and so on. These works, often addressed primarily to local audiences, have remained largely unknown and mostly underv…
Text to Tradition
Text to Tradition: The Naiṣadhīyacarita and Literary Community in South Asia, by Deven M. Patel." South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 39(2), pp. 497–498
A Cloud Turned Goose
A vast corpus of Sanskrit poetry (kāvya) was produced over the last thousand years; most of these works reveal a vital and organic relation to the crystallising regional traditions of the subcontinent and to emerging vernacular literatures. Thus we have, for example, the Sanskrit literatures of Kerala, of Bengal-Orissa, of Andhra, and so on. These works, often addressed primarily to local audiences, have remained largely unknown and mostly underv…
The Poetics of Ambivalence
What is New and what is Navya
A Renaissance Man in Memory
Vastutas tu
South meets North
During the last decades of the sixteenth century, Banaras began to assert itself as a powerful intellectual centre of a magnitude never seen before in South Asia. Scholars working in all disciplines and from every part of the subcontinent were drawn to this city, where they not only produced voluminous innovative scholarship but also created a deliberative body of scholars and jurists that began to assume all-India responsibilities. By the best e…
A Question of Priority
Thinking on Six Feet
Jāyagauḍa’s Kannaḍakuvalayānanda , the name may suggest, is another run-of-the-mill regional adaptation of Appayya Dīkṣita’s bestseller textbook of Sanskrit poetics— The Joy of the Night Lily ( Kuvalayānanda ). However, a close reading of Jāyagauḍa’s definitions and more importantly, his carefully curated examples, tells a different story. Jāyagauḍa’s text is by no means a slavish translation, nor is his aim to present a brandnew, local theory of…
From conqueror to connoisseur
This article is primarily concerned with asking how we can read Kalhaṇa’s Rājataraṅgiṇī as historians, other than by mining it for facts and names or using it as a proof of some South Asian given. I conduct my investigation on a relatively small sample, a well-defined narrative sequence of about 100 verses from the fourth chapter, or ‘wave’, of the River of Kings (4.402–502), which narrates King Jayāpīḍa’s first military campaign. I try to demons…
To Be or Not to Be Śiśupāla
Yigal Bronner, Lawrence McCrea, To Be or Not to Be Śiśupāla: Which Version of the Key Speech in Māgha's Great Poem Did He Really Write?, Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 132, No. 3 (July-September 2012), pp. 427-455
A Road Map for Future Studies
Review Article| August 01 2011 A Road Map for Future Studies: The Language of the Gods in the World of Scholars Yigal Bronner Yigal Bronner Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (2): 538–544. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-1264406 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Yigal Bronner; A Road Map …
Blaming the messenger
The last active period in the tradition of Sanskrit poetics, although associated with scholars who for the first time explicitly identified themselves as new, has generally been castigated in modern histories as repetitious and devoid of thoughtfulness. This paper presents a case study dealing with competing analyses of a single short poem by two of the major theorists of this period, Appayya Dīkṣita (sixteenth century) and Jagannātha Paṇḍitarāja…
The Poetics of Distortive Talk Plot and Character in Ratnākara's ``Fifty Verbal Pervesions (Vakroktipañcāśikā)
Double-Bodied Poet, Double-Bodied Poem
The Poetics of Distortive Talk Plot and Character in Ratnākara's ``Fifty Verbal Pervesions (Vakroktipañcāśikā)
What is New and what is Navya
H.W.Bodewitz
The Lalitavistara is one of the most influential hagiographies of the Buddha. It has been known in Sanskrit since the early days of modern studies of Buddhism, but was long available only in inadequate editions. That has now changed with the publication of the edition of K. Hokazono, now complete in three volumes. The present paper discusses something of the history of the study of the text, Hokazono's edition, and another recent book by G. Ducoe…
A Cloud Turned Goose
A vast corpus of Sanskrit poetry (kāvya) was produced over the last thousand years; most of these works reveal a vital and organic relation to the crystallising regional traditions of the subcontinent and to emerging vernacular literatures. Thus we have, for example, the Sanskrit literatures of Kerala, of Bengal-Orissa, of Andhra, and so on. These works, often addressed primarily to local audiences, have remained largely unknown and mostly underv…
This Is No Lotus, It Is A Face
In this chapter, the author intends to explore by closely examining a single passage from alaṃ kāraśāstraʾs long history, Daṇḍ inʾs investigation of the simile ( upamā ). The middle portion of Daṇḍ inʾs discussion of the simile deals with factors that may obstruct its aesthetic effect. Daṇḍ inʾs examples of the simile's faults suffice to suggest that his analysis of poetic tongue has its roots in grammar, and is based on a grammatically-trained a…
Vastutas tu
Blaming the messenger
The last active period in the tradition of Sanskrit poetics, although associated with scholars who for the first time explicitly identified themselves as new, has generally been castigated in modern histories as repetitious and devoid of thoughtfulness. This paper presents a case study dealing with competing analyses of a single short poem by two of the major theorists of this period, Appayya Dīkṣita (sixteenth century) and Jagannātha Paṇḍitarāja…
Extreme Poetry
Beginning in the sixth century C.E. and continuing for more than a thousand years, an extraordinary poetic practice was the trademark of a major literary movement in South Asia. Authors invented a special language to depict both the apparent and hidden sides of disguised or dual characters, and then used it to narrate India's major epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata , simultaneously. Originally produced in Sanskrit, these dual narratives eve…
The Poetics of Ambivalence
A Question of Priority
Khoroche, Peter and Herman Tieken, Poems on Life and Love in Ancient India
A Road Map for Future Studies
Review Article| August 01 2011 A Road Map for Future Studies: The Language of the Gods in the World of Scholars Yigal Bronner Yigal Bronner Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (2): 538–544. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-1264406 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Yigal Bronner; A Road Map …
To Be or Not to Be Śiśupāla
Yigal Bronner, Lawrence McCrea, To Be or Not to Be Śiśupāla: Which Version of the Key Speech in Māgha's Great Poem Did He Really Write?, Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 132, No. 3 (July-September 2012), pp. 427-455
Embracing Simultaneity
This essay deals with literary works that combine two or more topics, characters, or plotlines and convey them concurrently to their respective destinations. It is based on my monograph Extreme Poetry: The South Asian Movement of Simultaneous Narration (Bronner 2010), where I discuss this phenomenon at length. Here I will limit myself briefly to presenting three main points: that the dimensions of the śleṣa phenomenon in South Asia are enormous, …
From conqueror to connoisseur
This article is primarily concerned with asking how we can read Kalhaṇa’s Rājataraṅgiṇī as historians, other than by mining it for facts and names or using it as a proof of some South Asian given. I conduct my investigation on a relatively small sample, a well-defined narrative sequence of about 100 verses from the fourth chapter, or ‘wave’, of the River of Kings (4.402–502), which narrates King Jayāpīḍa’s first military campaign. I try to demons…
The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki
Translated by Robert P. Goldman, Sally J. Sutherland Goldman, and Barend A. van Nooten (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009), xviii + 1655 pp. $154.00/£107.00 cloth. With this monumenta
A Renaissance Man in Memory
South meets North
During the last decades of the sixteenth century, Banaras began to assert itself as a powerful intellectual centre of a magnitude never seen before in South Asia. Scholars working in all disciplines and from every part of the subcontinent were drawn to this city, where they not only produced voluminous innovative scholarship but also created a deliberative body of scholars and jurists that began to assume all-India responsibilities. By the best e…
Indic Ornaments on Javanese Shores
The Old Javanese Rāmāyaṇa Kakawin, the earliest known Javanese literary work, is based on the sixth-century Sanskrit Bhaṭṭikāvya. It is an outcome of a careful and thorough project of translation and adaptation that took place at a formative moment in the cultural exchange between South and Southeast Asia. In this essay we explore what it was that the Javanese poets set out to capture when they rendered the Bhaṭṭikāvya into Old Javanese, what sor…
Birds of a Feather
Courier poetry is perhaps the richest and most vital literary genre of premodern South Asia, with hundreds of poems in a great variety of languages. But other than dubbing these poems "imitations" of Kālidāsa's classical model, existing scholarship offers very little explanation of why this should be the case: why poets repeatedly turned to this literary form, exactly how they engaged with existing precedents, and what, if anything, was new in th…
Lasting Vision
Celibate Seducer
A Lasting Vision
A Lasting Vision is dedicated to the Mirror of Literature (Kāvyādarśa), a Sanskrit treatise on poetics composed by Dandin in south India (ca. 700 ce) and to its remarkable career throughout large parts of Asia. The Mirror was adapted and translated into several languages in the southern Indian peninsula (Kannada, Tamil) and the island of Sri Lanka (Sinhala, Pali), as well as in the Tibetan plateau far to the north (Tibetan, Mongolian). In all the…
Thinking on Six Feet
Jāyagauḍa’s Kannaḍakuvalayānanda , the name may suggest, is another run-of-the-mill regional adaptation of Appayya Dīkṣita’s bestseller textbook of Sanskrit poetics— The Joy of the Night Lily ( Kuvalayānanda ). However, a close reading of Jāyagauḍa’s definitions and more importantly, his carefully curated examples, tells a different story. Jāyagauḍa’s text is by no means a slavish translation, nor is his aim to present a brandnew, local theory of…
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