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The life of a text: performing the Rāmcaritmānas of Tulsidas
Lutgendorf, Philip.
Year: 1991.
Publisher:  University of California Press. 
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table of contents
Frontmatter
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
A Note on Transliteration
1. The Text and the Research Context
Introduction
Tulsidas and the Ramayan Tradition
Metrical and Narrative Structure
The Fathomless Lake: Tulsi's Narrative Framing
The Manas and the Western Audience
On Poetry and Performance
Banaras: City of Tulsidas
2. The Text in Recitation and Song
The Varieties of Recitation
Spreading the Word: The Puranic Recitation Model
The Rites of Recitation
The "Great Sacrifice" of Manas Recitation
The Pleasures of Manas Singing
3. The Text Expounded: The Development of Manas-Katha
The Telling and Its Milieu
Epic and Puranic Exegetical Traditions
The Manas-Katha Tradition
Changing Styles of Katha
4. The Art of Manas-Katha
The Economics of Katha
Qualifications of a Performer
Performance Structure and Techniques
Katha in Context: The Contemporary Performance Milieu
The Performer and the Text
The Nature of Katha: A Cross-Cultural Perspective
The Palace of Mirrors
5. Words Made Flesh: The Text Enacted
The Ramlila Tradition
The "Sport" of Kings: Evolution of the Banaras Ramlila
Three Contemporary Productions
Ramlila and Devotional Practice
The Ultimate Commentary
6. The Text in a Changing Society
The Paradoxical Paradigm
The Rise of the Eternal Religion
The Politics of Ramraj
Cracks in the Mirror
People of the Book
The Future of Manas Performance
Glossary of Names with Transliteration
Biblography
Index
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Title: The life of a text : performing the Rāmcaritmānas of Tulsidas Philip Lutgendorf.
Author: Lutgendorf, Philip
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Source Version: The life of a text : performing the Rāmcaritmānas of Tulsidas Philip Lutgendorf. 
Lutgendorf, Philip
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.02439
Subject Headings: • Tulasīdāsa, -- 1532-1623. -- Rāmacaritamānasa
• Tulasīdāsa, -- 1532-1623 -- Stage history
• Criticism, Textual
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