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[null,null,"Autore",null,"Pingali Surana"]
[null,null,"Titolo",null,"The demon's daughter : a love story from South India / / Pingali Surana ; translated with an afterword by Velcheru Narayana Rao and David Shulman"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2006"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"9780791482155"]
[{"$nulls":4},"0791482154"]
[{"$nulls":4},"9781423766865"]
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[null,null,"Edizione",null,"[1st ed.]"]
[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource (140 p.)"]
[null,null,"Collana",null,"SUNY series in Hindu studies"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"894.8/27371"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"Telugu literature"]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,null,"Note generali","Description based upon print version of record."]
[null,null,null,"Nota di bibliografia","Includes bibliographical references and index."]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"\"\"The Demonâ€?s Daughter\"\"; \"\"Contents\"\"; \"\"Preface\"\"; \"\"Acknowledgments\"\"; \"\"Introduction\"\"; \"\"The Demonâ€?s Daughter: A Love Story from South India\"\"; \"\"1. Prayers\"\"; \"\"2. The Gooseâ€?s Commission\"\"; \"\"3. Pradyumna Sends a Letter\"\"; \"\"4. The Goose Interrogates the Parrot\"\"; \"\"5. The Lovers Meet\"\"; \"\"Afterword:  The Sixteenth-Century Breakthrough\"\"; \"\"Notes\"\"; \"\"Index\"\"; \"\"A\"\"; \"\"B\"\"; \"\"C\"\"; \"\"D\"\"; \"\"F\"\"; \"\"G\"\"; \"\"H\"\"; \"\"I\"\"; \"\"K\"\"; \"\"L\"\"; \"\"M\"\"; \"\"N\"\"; \"\"P\"\"; \"\"R\"\"; \"\"S\"\"; \"\"T\"\"; \"\"U\"\"; \"\"V\"\"; \"\"Y\"\""]
[null,null,null,"Sommario/riassunto","The Demon's Daughter (Prabhavati-pradyumnamu) is a sixteenth-century novel by the south Indian poet Pingali Suranna, originally written in Telugu, the language of present-day Andhra Pradesh. Suranna begins with a story from classical Hindu mythology in which a demon plans to overthrow the gods. Krishna's son Pradyumna is sent to foil the plot and must infiltrate the impregnable city of the demons; Krishna helps ensure his success by having a matchmaking goose cause Pradyumna to fall in love with the demon's daughter. The original story focuses on the ongoing war between gods and anti-gods, but Pingali Suranna makes it an exploration of the experience of being and falling in love. In this, the work evinces a modern sensibility, showing love as both an individualized emotion and the fullest realization of a person, transcending social and cultural barriers.The translators include an afterword that explores the cultural setting of the work and "]
[{"$nulls":4},"its historical and literary contexts. Anyone interested in the literature and mythology of India will find this book compelling, but all readers who love a good story will enjoy this moving book. Velcheru Narayana Rao and David Shulman have provided an elegant translation that will serve well the contemporary reader who wishes to encounter a masterwork of world literature largely unknown in the West."]