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29 novembre 2016
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- isbn: 9781783741021
- eisbn: 9782821876163
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Allison Busch, « 9. Listening for the Context: Tuning in to the Reception of Riti Poetry », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.igixld
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Beginning in the sixteenth century, Indian poets began to cultivate new styles of vernacular literature that became spectacularly successful at the courts of the Mughal period (1526-1857). Instead of adopting the Sanskrit language preferred by their forebears, the members of this (generally) Brahman community chose to express themselves in Brajbhasha, a literary dialect of Hindi. And thus was born a style of poetry today known as “riti”, so called because of the tradition’s signature genre, t...