Yigal Bronner

Innovations and Turning Points: Toward a History of Kavya Literature - South Asia Research Yigal Bronner

This volume is the first attempt to offer a panoramic historical overview of South Asian classical poetry, especially in Sanskrit. Many of the essays in this volume are the first serious studies of the great masterpieces of South Asian literature. Moreover, the book as a whole captures the millennium-long developmental logic of this literature by identifying a series of critical moments of breakthrough and innovation, allowing the tradition to reinventitself.