Bhūtārthakathane . . . Sarasvatī. Reading Poetry as a History Book

Marco Franceschini; Chiara Livio; Lidia Wojtczak

doi:10.6093/978-88-6719-330-1

Bhūtārthakathane . . . Sarasvatī. Reading Poetry as a History Book

Authors

Marco Franceschini

University of Bologna

Chiara Livio

University of Utrecht

Lidia Wojtczak

University of Chicago

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6093/978-88-6719-330-1

Synopsis

Publisher: UniorPress

Series: Studies on the History of Śaivism

Pages: 402

Languages: English

Abstract: Bhūtārthakathane … Sarasvatī: Reading Poetry as a History Book is a collection of ten articles exploring one of the key tension in the study of historical poetry—between the desire to extract ‘hard’ historical facts from poetic texts, and the need to attend to the history of poetry itself—its forms, conventions, and evolving self-understanding. The contributors show us poets who were not only engaged in decidedly historical projects but were also consciously, bravely, and sometimes even audaciously making history themselves. They illustrate that premodern South Asian poets were deliberately engaging with their past and present, and speaking to future audiences as they entered into literary discussions that had often been going on for centuries. This volume will be of interest to scholars of literary history and historical literature, as well as to all scholars engaged in the study of South Asian poetry.

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Author Biographies

Marco Franceschini, University of Bologna

Marco Franceschini è Professore Associato di Sanscrito e Indologia presso l’Università di Bologna e membro del Consiglio direttivo dell’Associazione Italiana Studi Sanscriti (AISS). I suoi principali ambiti di ricerca sono la letteratura indiana classica in sanscrito (kāvya) e la codicologia e paleografia indiana, con speciale attenzione per l’area di cultura Tamil dell’India meridionale. Ha partecipato e ancora partecipa a diversi progetti di ricerca internazionali, con sedi presso Università di Cambridge (UK), British Council Delhi, Università di Amburgo, École française d’Extrême-Orient (sede di Pondicherry), Università degli studi di Napoli L’Orientale, CNRS&EFEO (Parigi), Università di Bologna.

Chiara Livio, University of Utrecht

Chiara Livio obtained her PhD in Sanskrit philology at Sapienza University of Rome, specializing in classical Sanskrit poetry (kāvya) in Medieval Kashmir. During her postdoctoral positions and fellowships at the University of Bologna (ERC Project Shivadharma) and Leiden University (IIAS, Gonda Fellowship), she continued her research on philology, manuscript production and transmission, and the movement and ownership of collections. She is currently an information specialist at Utrecht University, focusing on academic-led publishing models, and leads the Dutch national project Mapping and Monitoring Diamond OA in the Netherlands. Building on her current role and research background, she is also part of the organizing team of the initiative Fair Open Access in South Asian Studies (FOASAS).

Lidia Wojtczak , University of Chicago

Lidia Wojtczak is Instructional Professor in Sanskrit at the department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago. Her main interest is in the Sanskrit language and its pedagogy — both in its South Asian contexts over time, and in the West. She works on Sanskrit poetry (kāvya), especially messenger poetry (dūtakāvya), and theoretical texts on poetics and aesthetic practices in pre-modern South Asia.