Pandanus ’98: Flowers, Nature, Semiotics – Kavya and Sangam.
Edited by J. Vacek and B. Knotková-Čapková.
Signeta, Prague 1999, 180 pp.
ISBN 80-902608-1-0
Reviewed by Cinzia Pieruccini, in: East and West 50, 1-4, December 2000, pp. 596-597.
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.
Contents:
- G. Boccali: Rain Poems and the Genesis of Kávya
- J. Dvořák: Neem and Camppaka in Classical Indian Literatures
- B. Knotková-Čapková: Some Remarks on Literary Analysis of the Symbolical Patterns in Ancient Tamil Poetry
- B. Kolver: Ambiguities, Polysemy, and Identifications
- G. Pellegrini: Sattasaí and pálai poems of Ainkurunúru
- J. Vacek: A Neytal Feature to Be Found in the Meghadúta?
- J. Čejka: Plants in Kávya Poetry: Problems with Plant-Names
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