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William Jackson

Sincere Praise of Honest Sweat

Translation and Reflections on the life of a South Indian Queen

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This book, based on translations, is literary and frankly experimental; it is about natural experiences told in natural language. Often translations from centuries ago seem stilted, dry and archaic, literally correct and academically adequate, but lacking such touchstones of basic humanity's life as inner feelings and visceral intuitive sensations. I am exercising a hope of offering a fresh telling, and a chance to provide some imaginative reflections on this topic I have chosen. The theme is sweat-and other natural human responses. I've been struck by how the experience of sweat meant something different centuries ago in India, in comparison… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-613-8-83664-3
  • EAN: 9786138836643
  • Produktnummer: 37322068
  • Verlag: Scholars' Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
  • Seitenangabe: 60 S.
  • Masse: H22.0 cm x B15.0 cm x D0.4 cm 107 g
  • Abbildungen: Paperback
  • Gewicht: 107

Über den Autor


William J. Jackson was born in Rock Island, Illinois. He has lived in Chicago, New York, Vermont, Indiana and Massachusetts, and spent three and a half years in India. He studied Indian traditions and languages at Harvard University, where he earned his PhD. He taught Comparative Religion at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis.

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