Abstracts of the lectures
Sweeter than Honey: The Advent and Rise of Classical Telugu Literature
This lecture will survey the first five centuries of classical Telugu literature from Nannaya’s landmark Āndhra-Mahābhāratamu in the eleventh century to Pĕddana’s celebrated Manu Caritramu written at the Vijayanagara court in the sixteenth century. The brief review of poets and texts will focus on the multifaceted process of South Indian vernacularization and its relationship to Sanskrit literary and cultural prestige.
Conquest of the World: Krishnadevaraya’s Āmuktamālyada
This lecture will take a focused look at one of Telugu literature’s most remarkable texts: the Āmuktamālyada of the sixteenth century Vijayanagara monarch Krishnadevaraya. This unique text, written by a king of Karnataka in ornate classical Telugu about a female Tamil saint, brings together several themes relating to vernacular literatures, courtly power and religious devotion.
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