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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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