{"product_id":"classical-sanskrit-tragedy-bihani-sarkar-9781788311113","title":"Classical Sanskrit Tragedy: The Concept of Suffering and Pathos in Medieval India","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt is often assumed that classical Sanskrit poetry and drama lack a concern with the tragic. However, as Bihani Sarkar makes clear in this book, this is far from the case. In the first study of tragedy in classical Sanskrit literature, Sarkar draws on a wide range of Sanskrit dramas, poems and treatises - much of them translated for the first time into English - to provide a complete history of the tragic in Indian literature from the second to the fourth centuries. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLooking at Kalidasa, the most celebrated writer of Sanskrit poetry and drama (\u003ci\u003ekavya\u003c\/i\u003e), this book argues that constructions of absence and grief are central to Kalidasa's compositions and that these 'tragic middles' are much more sophisticated than previously understood. For Kalidasa, tragic middles are modes of thinking, in which he confronts theological and philosophical issues. Through a close literary analysis of the tragic middle in five of his works, the \u003ci\u003eAbhij?anasakuntala\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eRaghuva?sa, \u003c\/i\u003e the \u003ci\u003eKumarasambhava, \u003c\/i\u003e the \u003ci\u003eVikramorvasiya\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eMeghaduta, \u003c\/i\u003e Sarkar demonstrates the importance of tragedy for classical Indian poetry and drama in the early centuries of the common era. These depictions from the Indian literary sphere, by their particular function and interest in the phenomenology of grief, challenge and reshape in a wholly new way our received understanding of tragedy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bihani Sarkar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1788311116\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781788311113\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e I. B. Tauris \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/25\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.07lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d","brand":"Bihani Sarkar","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46110761287935,"sku":"9781788311113","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a366920e-a802-491a-a49f-e7105abd8e9d.jpg?v=1725469698","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/classical-sanskrit-tragedy-bihani-sarkar-9781788311113","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}