theory and practice in sanskrit and dravidian kavya

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Hi list.

 

I have been reading in David Smith's book on the Haravijaya about the ways

in which the sanskrit literary critics' theories of rasa and dhvani were

at variance with the practice of many poets. I had not seen this fact

emphasized

before and I wonder what other sanskritists have written about it. I also

wonder if there may be a similar gap between kavi and critic in the tamil

and other dravidian literary traditions, if the theory of the interior landscape

was more descriptive and less prescrpitive than theories of rasa and dhvani

in the sanskrit tradition.

 

Phillip