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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 Bandyopadhyay
On the concepts of
kāvya
,
sāhitya
and
sahṛdaya
in Sanskrit literary criticism
Suparna Bandyopadhyay
The Nāṭyaśāstra account of the origin of Drama and its bearing on the importance of a plot in the drama
Giuliano Boccali
The background of the
samastavastuviṣayarūpaka
and its importance in early
kāvya
(1)
Yigal Bronner
Sanskrit literary culture in a multilingual context: The case of
śleṣa
in South India
Satyanarayan Chakraborty
Sanskrit riddles using Bengali pronunciation
Nandini Chakravarty
Hastabhinaya in ancient Sanskrit texts and its application in contemporary Indian dance
Christine Chojnacki and Basile Leclère
The
Vibudhānanda
play inserted in Śīlāṅka's novel
Caupannamahapurisacariya
Linda Covill
The
cakravāka
bird in Aśvaghoṣa's
Saundarananda
: the Buddhist twist in a
kāvya
image
Daniele Cuneo
Smuggling novelty -- Dismantling tradition: Abhinavagupta and Bhoja on the derivation of
rasa
s
Elisa Ganser
The concept of
sattva
in Indian theatre
Bidyut B. Ghosh
Principles governing the employment of alaṅkāras in a poetic creation - An appointment with rhetoricians, specially Anandavardhana
Mahadev Joshi
Manasollsa - The rules guide
Klaus Karttunen
Ideas and fancies connected with birds in classical India
Rani Majumdar
na ratnam anviṣyati mṛgyate hi tat
- On the gems embedded in Kālidāsa's poetry
Lawrence Joseph McCrea
Appaya Dīkṣita on the semantics of metaphor
David Mellins
Of maṅgalas and methodologies: Benedictory verses and rhetorical strategies in Alaṃkāraśāstra treatises
Gabriella F. Olivero & Daniela Rossela
Humour in the
Kāvya
literature: Sanctity and sacredness put in the pillory
Deven M. Patel
Towards a theory of the
Pañcamahākāvya
typology
Tiziana Pontillo
The background of the
samastavastuviṣayarūpaka
and its importance in early
kāvya
(2)
C. S. Radhakrishnan
The chariot in philosophy and Sanskrit literature
K.V.V. Rao
Significance of the verse
vagarthaviva
in the
Raghuvaṃśa
in the
dhvani
theory
Sharmila Rao
nṛtta
-
nṛtya
-
nāṭya
in a classical Sanskrit drama presentation
Velcheru Narayana Rao
Modernity in Sanskrit? An interpretation of Viswanatha Satyanarayana's play,
Amṛtaśarmiṣṭham
Adheesh Sathaye
Rājaśekhara's
Kāvyamīmāṃsā
and the place of literature in tenth-century Kannauj
Hari Dutt Sharma
The concept of poetry in modern Sanskrit poetics
Aruna Sharma
Rasārṇavasudhākara
as viewed by commentators
David Shulman
Kādambarī
Sundari Siddhartha
A new relevant drama -- Away from the trodden path '
tṛtīya puruṣārthasya pāramyam
'
Radhavallabh Tripathi
Paraśurāma and Bhavabhūti's anguish
Anna Trynkowska
Character descriptions in
mahākāvya
literature
Gary Tubb
Dramatic progression in Bhavabhūti's plays
Kazuho Yamasaki
On Kṣemendra's version of the Nalopakhyāna