K.V.S. Ramarao

From Grievance to Hāsyarasa: The Poetics of Comic Transformation in Kūcimañci Jaggakavi's Candrarekhā-vilāpamu

The eighteenth-century Telugu poem Candrarekhā-vilāpamu has long been interpreted as a literary retaliation. The paper reexamines it and argues that biographical injury alone cannot account for the poem's expansive comic universe. It also demonstrates how the poet systematically...