Yigal Bronner is Associate Professor in the Department of Asian Studies, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

David Shulman is Renee Lang Professor of Humanistic Studies at the Hebrew University.

Gary Tubb is Chair and Professor, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, Division of the Humanities, the University of Chicago.

Yigal Bronner is Associate Professor in the Department of Asian Studies, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.; Allison Busch is Associate Professor in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University.; Phyllis Granoff is the Lex Hixon Professor of World Religions at Yale University; Thomas Hunter lectures on the Sanskrit and Indonesian languages at the University of British Columbia.; Peter Khoroche, after teaching Sanskrit at SOAS in the early 1970s, he chose independence and has since then pursued an interest in modern British art as well as in Sanskrit literature.; Charles Malamoud was Directeur d'études at the Ecole pratique des hautes études, Sorbonne, Paris, until his retirement in 1999.; Dan Martin completed his doctoral degree in Tibetan Studies at Indiana University in 1991.; Lawrence McCrea is Associate Professor of Sanskrit Studies at Cornell University; Velcheru Narayana Rao is Distinguished Visiting Professor at Emory University, Atlanta, GA; David Shulman is Renee Lang Professor of Humanistic Studies at the Hebrew University; Herman Tieken is an independent researcher; Gary Tubb is Chair and Professor, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, Division of the Humanities, the University of Chicago.

"One of the merits of many essays in the volume is that their authors carefully read the works they had chosen for study. This might seem to be an obvious prerequisite, and yet there are histories of ... literature that do not fulfill this condition. The book is full of quotations both in the original language and in translation (though one might wish to encounter less mistakes in theSanskrit), accompanied by insightful and minute analyses. Lawrence McCrea's closing paragraph of his essay ... contains an important methodological observation, which has been put into practice in some of the best essays in the volume: "It is essential that we attempt to make sense of each poem as a unique object in its own right, which, while it may in some cases be usefully elucidated through terms and categories drawn from either western or indigenous critical traditions, can never simply be uncritically reduced to them" (p. 140). --Csaba Dezso, Indo-Iranian Journal

"This collection of essays suggests an ambition to draw kavya literature into the orbit of world literature studies in a sensitive and substantive way. Teachers in the global classroom, one surmises, regularly experience the difficulty of presenting kavya to uninitiated students. This is partly due to the linguistic and cultural gulf that separates any literature from readers outside of that literature's culture. This is a problem for all literary traditions experienced in translation. For kavya, however, the hindrance mostly lies in the sense one gets that the k?vya universe in all its variety has not been adequately translated for the general reader. Also lacking seem to be adequate reading strategies that are both compelling and user-friendly. That complex problem remains even with the publication of this book. Without a doubt, however, this collection is a turning point in kavya scholarship." --Deven M. Patel, Journal of the American Oriental Society

"the chief delight of this book lies not so much in the range and extent of the area covered, or in the scholarship on display, which is hugely impressive, but in the particular lines quoted or the detailed discussion of a passage that stay in the mind." --Rosinka Chaudhuri, Times Literary Supplement

Yigal Bronner is Associate Professor in the Department of Asian Studies, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

David Shulman is Renee Lang Professor of Humanistic Studies at the Hebrew University.

Gary Tubb is Chair and Professor, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, Division of the Humanities, the University of Chicago.

Yigal Bronner is Associate Professor in the Department of Asian Studies, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.; Allison Busch is Associate Professor in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University.; Phyllis Granoff is the Lex Hixon Professor of World Religions at Yale University; Thomas Hunter lectures on the Sanskrit and Indonesian languages at the University of British Columbia.; Peter Khoroche, after teaching Sanskrit at SOAS in the early 1970s, he chose independence and has since then pursued an interest in modern British art as well as in Sanskrit literature.; Charles Malamoud was Directeur d'études at the Ecole pratique des hautes études, Sorbonne, Paris, until his retirement in 1999.; Dan Martin completed his doctoral degree in Tibetan Studies at Indiana University in 1991.; Lawrence McCrea is Associate Professor of Sanskrit Studies at Cornell University; Velcheru Narayana Rao is Distinguished Visiting Professor at Emory University, Atlanta, GA; David Shulman is Renee Lang Professor of Humanistic Studies at the Hebrew University; Herman Tieken is an independent researcher; Gary Tubb is Chair and Professor, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, Division of the Humanities, the University of Chicago.

"One of the merits of many essays in the volume is that their authors carefully read the works they had chosen for study. This might seem to be an obvious prerequisite, and yet there are histories of ... literature that do not fulfill this condition. The book is full of quotations both in the original language and in translation (though one might wish to encounter less mistakes in theSanskrit), accompanied by insightful and minute analyses. Lawrence McCrea's closing paragraph of his essay ... contains an important methodological observation, which has been put into practice in some of the best essays in the volume: "It is essential that we attempt to make sense of each poem as a unique object in its own right, which, while it may in some cases be usefully elucidated through terms and categories drawn from either western or indigenous critical traditions, can never simply be uncritically reduced to them" (p. 140). --Csaba Dezso, Indo-Iranian Journal

"This collection of essays suggests an ambition to draw kavya literature into the orbit of world literature studies in a sensitive and substantive way. Teachers in the global classroom, one surmises, regularly experience the difficulty of presenting kavya to uninitiated students. This is partly due to the linguistic and cultural gulf that separates any literature from readers outside of that literature's culture. This is a problem for all literary traditions experienced in translation. For kavya, however, the hindrance mostly lies in the sense one gets that the k?vya universe in all its variety has not been adequately translated for the general reader. Also lacking seem to be adequate reading strategies that are both compelling and user-friendly. That complex problem remains even with the publication of this book. Without a doubt, however, this collection is a turning point in kavya scholarship." --Deven M. Patel, Journal of the American Oriental Society

"the chief delight of this book lies not so much in the range and extent of the area covered, or in the scholarship on display, which is hugely impressive, but in the particular lines quoted or the detailed discussion of a passage that stay in the mind." --Rosinka Chaudhuri, Times Literary Supplement