Oral and Literary Continuities in Modern Tibetan Literature:

Oral and Literary Continuities in Modern Tibetan Literature: The Inescapable Nation (Studies in Modern Tibetan Culture)

This is the first book-length study to appear in English on the literary, cultural and political roots of modern Tibetan literature. While existing scholarship on modern Tibetan writing takes the 1980s as its point of â€œbirthâ€ and presents this period as marking a â€œruptureâ€ with traditional forms of literature, this book goes beyond such an interpretation by foregrounding instead the persistence of Tibetâ€™s artistic past and oral traditions in the literary creativity of the present. While acknowledging the innovative features of modern Tibetan literary creation, it draws attention to the hitherto neglected aspects of continuity within the new. This study explores the endurance of genres, styles, concepts, techniques, symbolisms, and idioms derived from Tibetâ€™s rich and diverse oral art forms and textual traditions. It reveals how Tibetan kÄvya poetics, the mgur genre, life-writing, the Gesar epic and other modes of oral and literary compositions are referenced and adapted in novel ways within modern Tibetan poetry and fiction. It also brings to prominence the complex and fertile interplay between orality and the Tibetan literary text. Embracing a multidisciplinary approach drawing on theoretical insights in western literary theory and criticism, political studies, sociology, and anthropology, this research shows that, alongside literary and oral continuities, the Tibetan nation proves to be an inevitable attribute of modern Tibetan literature.
Country USA
Brand Lexington Books
Manufacturer Lexington Books
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 4 black & white illustrations
ReleaseDate 2015-06-10
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9781498503334

Country	USA
Brand	Lexington Books
Manufacturer	Lexington Books
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	4 black & white illustrations
ReleaseDate	2015-06-10
UnitCount	1
Format	Illustrated
EANs	9781498503334

Oral and Literary Continuities in Modern Tibetan Literature: The Inescapable Nation (Studies in Modern Tibetan Culture)

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