In the first volume of “Selected works” P.A. Greenzer includes work on the history of ancient Indian literature. The author explores the sacred language of Vedic poetry and the status of the Vedic poet, the genesis and typology of the ancient Indian epic, the features of the Sanskrit framed the story as mass literature of the Middle Ages, the poetry of the Sanskrit novel, the ratio of the traditional canon and creative individuality in Sanskrit lyrics. Numerous parallels with typologically close monuments of other literature allow more to illuminate the role and place of ancient Indian literature in the world literary process.
For philologists and a wide range of readers interested in ancient Indian culture.
Author
Grintzer Pavel Aleksandrovich
Editor
Surkov Vladislav
Publisher
RSUSU, 2008
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