@article {cf04349bf9664f7fa812ce5c9384f18c,
	title = {Embracing Simultaneity: The Story of "{\'S}leṣa" in South Asia},
	journal = {Cracow Indological Studies},
	volume = {15},
	year = {2013},
	pages = {119{\textendash}141},
	publisher = {Ksiegarnia Akademicka Ltd},
	abstract = {This essay deals with literary works that combine two or more topics, characters, or plotlines and convey them concurrently to their respective destinations. It is based on my monograph Extreme Poetry: The South Asian Movement of Simultaneous Narration (Bronner 2010), where I discuss this phenomenon at length. Here I will limit myself briefly to presenting three main points: that the dimensions of the {\'s}leṣa phenomenon in South Asia are enormous, that experiments with artistic simultaneity have a demonstrable and meaningful history, and that this is the history of a self-conscious literary movement. I conclude with three brief examples of {\'s}leṣa verses from three very different works that exemplify some of the poetic uses to which {\'s}leṣa was put and that demonstrate how the literary movement under discussion used {\'s}leṣa to advance the aesthetic projects of South Asian culture and push them to the extreme.},
	issn = {1732-0917},
	doi = {10.12797/cis.15.2013.15.08},
	author = {Yigal Bronner}
}
