| Rama's Last ACT Contributor(s): Pollock, Sheldon I. (Translator), Bhava-Bhuti, Bhava-Bhuti (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0814767338 ISBN-13: 9780814767337 Publisher: Clay Sanskrit OUR PRICE: $22.80 Product Type: Hardcover Published: November 2007 Annotation: "The books line up on my shelf like bright Bodhisattvas ready to take tough questions or keep quiet company. They stake out a vast territory, with works from two millennia in multiple genres: aphorism, lyric, epic, theater, and romance." --Willis G. Regier, "The Chronicle Review" |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Ancient, Classical & Medieval |
| Dewey: 891.22 |
| LCCN: 2007014900 |
| Series: Clay Sanskrit Library |
| Physical Information: 0.79" H x 4.62" W x 6.49" (0.68 lbs) 451 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "Rama's Last Act" by Bhava-bhuti is counted among the greatest Sanskrit dramas. The work at once dramatizes the "Ram yana"--it is one of the earliest theatrical adaptations of Valm ki's epic masterpiece--and revises its most intractable episode, the hero's rejection of his beloved wife. Human agency in the face of destiny, the power of love, and the capacity of art to make sense of such mysteries are the themes explored in this singular literary achievement of the Indian stage. |
Contributor Bio(s): Bhava-Bhuti, Bhava-Bhuti: - Pollock, Sheldon I.: - Sheldon I. Pollock is the William B. Ransford Professor of Sanskrit and Indian Studies and Chairman of the Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University. He is the author of The Language of the Gods in the World of Men: Sanskrit, Culture, and Power in Premodern India and editor of Cosmopolitanism and Literary Cultures in History: Reconstructions from South Asia. |