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29 novembre 2016
- handle: 10670/1.ojl98r
- isbn: 9781783741021
- eisbn: 9782821876163
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India oral tradition folklore storytelling Inde art de conter folklore tradition orale Folklore Literature (General) LIT008020 DSBSujets proches
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Francesca Orsini, « 12. Texts and Tellings: Kathas in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.ojl98r
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Wrestlers, mimics, actors perform, pandits recite the scriptures. Songs, sounds, stories full of rasa, it’s a good pastime, The fort people are happy and give handsome rewards. In the ecology of performance genres in early modern India, kathas or stories are pretty much ubiquitous. We find them recited at courts and in village assemblies, at the foot of citadels and in courtyards, in temples and sufi assemblies, even occasionally from the pulpits of mosques — and they are also one of the stan...