"Kavirahasya", “The Secret of Poets”: Rājaśekhara’s View on Poetry

• Authors: Pażucha Katarzyna
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In the tenth century AD, a Sanskrit poet Rājaśekhara composed a peculiar text, the Kāvyamīmāṃsā, “Investigation in Poetry”. In this work he proposed a new, fresh approach to literature: kāvya as a sphere of life rather than mere theory of figuration, alankāraśāstra. This paper will concentrate on the Kavirahasya, the first chapter of the Kāvyamīmāmsā, describing a poet and his place in the world of literature.

Keywords

EN

Rājaśekhara; Kāvyamīmāmsā; Kavirahasya; alankāraśāstra; kāvya; Sanskrit poetics; Kautilya; Vatsyāyana; Arthaśāstra; Kāmasūtra; śāstra

• Publisher: Księgarnia Akademicka
• Journal: Cracow Indological Studies
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 15: Text History and Society as Depicted in Indian Literature and Art. Part II. ŚRAVYA. Poetry & Prose
• Pages: 143-166

Contributors

author

Pażucha Katarzyna

• University of Chicago

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12797/CIS.15.2013.15.09