The Routledge Companion to Courier Poetry : From South Asia and Beyond (Hardcover)

Getting the Message: An Introduction to Courier Poetry 1. Reading a Cloud?2. Unbearable Levity: Desire’s Headwinds in Dhoyi’s Breeze Messenger (Pavanad?ta) 3. Messaging Affect in Jinasena’s Ascent of Parshva?4. Profitable Poetry: Panegyric Messenger Poetry and Patronage 5. Abudl Rahman's Pretexts 6. "Our Endless and Proper Work": Notes on Reading Sinhala Messenger Poems 7. Tamil T?tu and a R?yalas?ma Diversion?8. A History of Sande?a on Stage (and its Aftermath): Sanskrit Padams from Eighteenth-century Thanjavur 9. Happily Ever After? Love, Realism, and Parody in The Partridge Messenger?10. Clouds over Mountains, Streams under Ice: The Messenger is Received in Tibet 11. A Journey through Poetry: Rethinking Tanakung’s W?ttasancaya?12. The Bat Messenger: The Poetics of Despair in Gurram Jashuva’s The Bat?13. Movement, Space, and Protest: Two Hindi Responses to the Meghad?ta?14. Mudgara the Messenger Epilogue: A New Translation of Kalidasa's Meghad?ta