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Title: A pattern of henna on autumn's feet
Authors: Vajpeyi, Udayan
Keywords: what is literature
ancient scripts
Issue Date: 1-Jun-1999
Publisher: Indian Institute of Advance Study, Shimla
Abstract: According to Wagish Shukla reading poetry is like deciphering ancten~ scripts. Deciphering ancient scripts would mean you are trying to guess at them. Reading literature is guessing at what is literature? The following essay comprises five ways of con}ecturmg about the ancient script we call literature. 1 have tried to gr~pe for this elephant of a question in five ways of being blind. I do realize, however, that this question an? I engaged in a game of musical chairs, and in the uninterrupted music of despair, neither of us is. likely to get a chance to sit down.
Description: 18-19
URI: http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/5047
ISSN: 09721452
Appears in Collections:Summerhill, Vol.5, No.1, (1999)

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