TY - JOUR
AU - Buchta, David
AB - Book Reviews 105 website for publication in 2011); but the present volume is pleasingly compact—a primer of sorts—and nicely done. Simon Brodbeck Department of Religious and Theological Studies, Cardiff University doi:10.1093/jhs/hir004 Advance Access Publication 19 April 2011 Extreme Poetry: The South Asian Movement of Simultaneous Narration. By Yigal Bronner. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. ISBN: 978-0-231- 15160-3, pp. xvi, 356. $50 (cloth). Yigal Bronner’s book fills a great lacuna in the study of South Asian literature and literary theory. Slesa, the ‘embrace’ of two sets of meaning or often of two sets of signifiers by one and the same sequence of sounds, is commonplace within the Sanskrit literary corpus. Still, in the history of scholarship on Sanskrit literature, s´lesa has been either ignored or deplored as emblematic of Sanskrit literature’s decadence, particularly in the later period. The importance of s´lesa has been down- played in part by claiming that it is a natural result of certain linguistic features of the Sanskrit language, such as the alteration of juxtaposed units of sound (sandhi). Bronner challenges this ‘absurd notion’ (p. 127) and demonstrates how the devel- opment of slesa depended rather on ‘a historically traceable use and even modi- fication 
TI - Extreme Poetry: The South Asian Movement of Simultaneous Narration. By Yigal Bronner.
JF - The Journal of Hindu Studies
DO - 10.1093/jhs/hir004
DA - 2011-05-20
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/extreme-poetry-the-south-asian-movement-of-simultaneous-narration-by-Y1x2Asqb0f
SP - 105
EP - 106
VL - 4
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -