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Participants and Papers (a provisional list)

Section 6 - Poetry, Drama and Aesthetics
Conveners: Gary A. Tubb, Yigal Bronner

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Pratap BandyopadhyayOn the concepts of kāvya, sāhitya and sahṛdaya in Sanskrit literary criticism
Suparna BandyopadhyayThe Nāṭyaśāstra account of the origin of Drama and its bearing on the importance of a plot in the drama
Giuliano BoccaliThe background of the samastavastuviṣayarūpaka and its importance in early kāvya(1)
Yigal BronnerSanskrit literary culture in a multilingual context: The case of śleṣa in South India
Satyanarayan ChakrabortySanskrit riddles using Bengali pronunciation
Nandini ChakravartyHastabhinaya in ancient Sanskrit texts and its application in contemporary Indian dance
Christine Chojnacki and Basile LeclèreThe Vibudhānanda play inserted in Śīlāṅka's novel Caupannamahapurisacariya
Linda CovillThe cakravāka bird in Aśvaghoṣa's Saundarananda: the Buddhist twist in a kāvya image
Daniele CuneoSmuggling novelty -- Dismantling tradition: Abhinavagupta and Bhoja on the derivation of rasas
Elisa GanserThe concept of sattva in Indian theatre
Bidyut B. GhoshPrinciples governing the employment of alaṅkāras in a poetic creation - An appointment with rhetoricians, specially Anandavardhana
Mahadev JoshiManasollsa - The rules guide
Klaus KarttunenIdeas and fancies connected with birds in classical India
Rani Majumdarna ratnam anviṣyati mṛgyate hi tat - On the gems embedded in Kālidāsa's poetry
Lawrence Joseph McCreaAppaya Dīkṣita on the semantics of metaphor
David MellinsOf maṅgalas and methodologies: Benedictory verses and rhetorical strategies in Alaṃkāraśāstra treatises
Gabriella F. Olivero & Daniela RosselaHumour in the Kāvya literature: Sanctity and sacredness put in the pillory
Deven M. PatelTowards a theory of the Pañcamahākāvya typology
Tiziana PontilloThe background of the samastavastuviṣayarūpaka and its importance in early kāvya(2)
C. S. RadhakrishnanThe chariot in philosophy and Sanskrit literature
K.V.V. RaoSignificance of the verse vagarthaviva in the Raghuvaṃśa in the dhvani theory
Sharmila Raonṛtta-nṛtya-nāṭya in a classical Sanskrit drama presentation
Velcheru Narayana RaoModernity in Sanskrit? An interpretation of Viswanatha Satyanarayana's play, Amṛtaśarmiṣṭham
Adheesh SathayeRājaśekhara's Kāvyamīmāṃsā and the place of literature in tenth-century Kannauj
Hari Dutt SharmaThe concept of poetry in modern Sanskrit poetics
Aruna SharmaRasārṇavasudhākara as viewed by commentators
David ShulmanKādambarī
Sundari SiddharthaA new relevant drama -- Away from the trodden path 'tṛtīya puruṣārthasya pāramyam'
Radhavallabh TripathiParaśurāma and Bhavabhūti's anguish
Anna TrynkowskaCharacter descriptions in mahākāvya literature
Gary TubbDramatic progression in Bhavabhūti's plays
Kazuho YamasakiOn Kṣemendra's version of the Nalopakhyāna