Extreme Poetry

The South Asian Movement of Simultaneous Narration

By: Michael Bronner

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Hardcover | 30 March 2010 | Edition Number 1

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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 eventually worked their way into regional languages, especially Telugu and Tamil, and other artistic media, such as sculpture. Scholars have long dismissed simultaneous narration as a mere curiosity, if not a sign of cultural decline in medieval India. Yet Yigal Bronner's "Extreme Poetry" effectively negates this position, proving that, far from being a meaningless pastime, this intricate, "bitextual" technique both transcended and reinvented Sanskrit literary expression.

The poems of simultaneous narration teased and estranged existing convention and showcased the interrelations between the tradition's foundational texts. By focusing on these achievements and their reverberations through time, Bronner rewrites the history of Sanskrit literature and its aesthetic goals. He also expands on contemporary theories of intertextuality, which have been largely confined to Western texts and practices.

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Yigal Bronner's book fills a great lacuna in the study of South Asian literature and literary theory. Journal of Hindu Studies

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Figures and Tables	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xv
A Note on Sanskrit Transliteration	p. xvii
Introduction	p. 1
Śle&sbdot;a: A Brief Overview of the Mechanisms of Simultaneity	p. 3
The Many Manifestations of Śle&sbdot;a: A Brief Sketch	p. 6
What (Little) Is Known About Śle&sbdot;a	p. 7
The Anti-Śle&sbdot;a Bias: Romanticism, Orientalism, Nationalism	p. 9
Is Śle&sbdot;a “Natural” to Sanskrit?	p. 13
Toward a History and Theory of Śle&sbdot;a	p. 17
Experimenting With Śle&sbdot;a In Subandhu's Prose Lab	p. 20
The Birth of a New Kind of Literature	p. 20
The Paintbrush of Imagination: Plot and Description in the V&abar;savadatt&abar;	p. 25
Amplifying the World: Subandhu's Alliterative Compounds	p. 33
Showcasing Śle&sbdot;a: The Opening Lines of the V&abar;savadatt&abar;	p. 38
Teasing the Convention: The Targets of Subandhu's Śle&sbdot;a	p. 44
B&abar;$$$a's Laughter and the Response to Subandhu	p. 50
Conclusion	p. 55
The Disguise of Language: Śle&sbdot;a Enters The Plot	p. 57
K&ibar;cakavadha (Killing K&ibar;caka) by N&ibar;tivarman	p. 58
The Elephant in the (Assembly) Room: N&ibar;tivarman's Buildup	p. 60
From Smoldering to Eruption: Draupad&ibar;'s Śle&sbdot;a and Its Implications	p. 64
Embracing the Subject: Śle&sbdot;a and Selfing	p. 71
Embracing Twin Episodes: Śle&sbdot;a and the Refinement of the Epic	p. 75
Flowers and Arrows, Milk and Water: Responses to N&ibar;tivarman's Śle&sbdot;a	p. 78
Sarasvat&ibar;'s Śle&sbdot;a: Disguise and Identity in Śr&ibar;har&sbdot;a's Nai&sbdot;adhacarita	p. 82
Conclusion	p. 88
Aiming at two Targets: The Early Attempts	p. 91
The Mahabalipuram Relief as a Visual Śle&sbdot;a	p. 92
Da&nbdot; &dbdot;in: A Lost Work and Its Relic	p. 99
Dhanañjaya: The Poet of Two Targets	p. 102
Lineages Ornamented and Tainted: On Śle&sbdot;a's Contrastive Capacities	p. 106
What Gets Conarrated? Dhanañjaya's Matching Scheme	p. 112
Śle&sbdot;a and the Aesthetics of Simultaneity	p. 115
Why Conarrate the Epics?	p. 119
Bringing The Ganges to The Ocean: Kavir&abar;ja and The Apex of Bitextuality	p. 122
The Boom of a Śle&sbdot;a Movement	p. 123
The Bitextual Movement and the Lexicographical Boom	p. 128
Sanskrit Bitextuality in a Vernacular World	p. 132
Kavir&abar;ja's Matching of the Sanskrit Epics	p. 140
Amplifying Epic Echoes	p. 148
Conclusion	p. 153
Śle&sbdot;a as Reading Practice	p. 155
The Imagined Śle&sbdot;a Reader: Representations and Instructions	p. 156
Things That Can Go Wrong with Śle&sbdot;a: The Theoreticians' Warning	p. 159
Seeing Shapes in Clouds: Different Readings of Meghad&ubar;ta 1.14	p. 169
Old Texts, New Reading Methods: The Commentaries on Subandhu	p. 176
Śle&sbdot;a and Allegory in the Commentaries on the Epic	p. 181
Double-Bodied Poet, Double-Bodied Poem: Ravicandra's Reading of Amaru	p. 183
The Śle&sbdot;a Paradox	p. 192
Theories of, Śle&sbdot;a In Sanskrit Poetics	p. 195
Theorizing Ornaments: An Overview of Alamk&abar;raś&abar;stra	p. 196
Śle&sbdot;a as a Theoretical Problem	p. 203
Speaking Crookedly and Speaking in Puns: Śle&sbdot;a's Role in Da&nbdot; &dbdot;in's Poetics	p. 214
Da&nbdot; &dbdot;in's Discovery in Its Context	p. 226
Toward A Theory of Śle&sbdot;a	p. 231
A Concise History of the Experiments with Śle&sbdot;a	p. 231
Śle&sbdot;a as a Literary Movement	p. 234
Śle&sbdot;a and Sheer Virtuosity	p. 239
Śle&sbdot;a and the Registers of the Self	p. 242
Śle&sbdot;a and the Refinement of the Epic	p. 246
Playing with the Convention: Śle&sbdot;a and Deep Intertextuality	p. 250
Śle&sbdot;a and K&abar;vya's Subversive Edge	p. 254
Extreme Poetry and Middle-Ground Theory: The Challenges Posed by Śle&sbdot;a	p. 257
Bitextual and Multitextual Works in Sanskrit	p. 267
Bitextual and Multitextual Works in Telugu	p. 272
Notes	p. 277
References	p. 315
Index	p. 331
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