Pandanus ’98: Flowers, Nature, Semiotics – Kavya and Sangam

Redaktoři

J. Vacek
B. Knotková-Čapková

Recenzováno

Cinzia Pieruccini in: East and West 50, 1-4, December 2000, pp. 596-597.

Vydáno

Signeta
Prague 1999, 180 pp.
ISBN 80-902608-1-0

Shrnutí

Papers presented to the international workshop (besides Charles University, participants from the Universities of Milano and Leipzig – see the list of papers) in May 1998, discussing natural symbolism, in particular flowers, and semiotics in classical Indian literature with an accent on Kavya (Sanskrit and Prakrit) and Sangam (Old Tamil) Literatures. Supported by a grant of the Czech Grant Agency GAČR.

Obsah

Rain Poems and the Genesis of Kávya

G. Boccali

Neem and Camppaka in Classical Indian Literatures

J. Dvořák

Some Remarks on Literary Analysis of the Symbolical Patterns in Ancient Tamil Poetry

B. Knotková-Čapková

Ambiguities, Polysemy, and Identifications

B. Kolver

Sattasaí and pálai poems of Ainkurunúru

G. Pellegrini

A Neytal Feature to Be Found in the Meghadúta

J. Vacek

Plants in Kávya Poetry: Problems with Plant-Names

J. Čejka