Dhanapāla and Some Aspects of Modern Fictional Technique

I CRITICAL BACKGROUND: As with the European Romances written in Middle Ages, so in Sanskrit, the Romances like Bana's Kadambers and Dhanapala's Tilaka- manjari are, in general, works of fiction in which the imagination 18 unrestricted In form they were long, resembling works of poetry in rhymed or alliterative prose occasionally interpersed with a verse

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कांसारा धनपाल की 'तिलकमंजरी' को आधुनिक कथा-समीक्षा की शब्दावली से पढ़ते हैं। वे संस्कृत गद्य-रोमांस को डब्ल्यू. पी. कर के मध्ययुगीन यूरोपीय रोमांस के समकक्ष रखते हैं (मुक्त कल्पना, अलंकृत वर्णन, चरित्र से अधिक घटना), और पूछते हैं कि धनपाल का कथा-संयोजन परवर्ती तकनीक का कहाँ तक पूर्वाभास देता है। Kansara reads Dhanapala's Tilakamanjari with the vocabulary of modern fiction criticism. He sets the Sanskrit prose romance beside the medieval European romance described by W. P. Ker - unrestricted imagination, ornamental description, incident before character - and asks how far Dhanapala's narrative handling anticipates later technique.

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