Alchemical texts of Siddha Yākōpu in the perspective of material ecocriticism. Mercury and lifeless matter in the literature of Tamil Siddha tradition
2020/37/N/HS2/01037
Keywords
Descriptors
- HS2_001: Historia literatury światowej (w tym: starożytnej, nowożytnej, współczesnej) i narodowej; krytyka i interpretacja literacka
- HS2_014: Kulturoznawstwo (w tym: współczesne studia kulturowe i antropologiczno-kulturowe)
Panel
HS2 – Culture and cultural production: literary theory and comparative literature, history of literature, linguistics, library science, cultural studies, arts, architecture
Host institution
Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Wydział Filologiczny
Voivodeship: małopolskie
Principal investigator (from the host institution)
dr Ilona Barbara Kędzia-Warych
Number of co-investigators in the project: 2
Call
PRELUDIUM 19 – announced on 2020-03-16
- Amount awarded
- 131 716 PLN
- Project start date
- 2021-02-01
- Project end date
- 2027-01-31
- Project duration
- 72 months (the same as in the proposal)
- Project status
- Pending project
Project description
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Publication in academic press/journals (3)
-
Alchemical Metaphors and their Yogic Interpretations in Selected Passages of the Tamil Siddha Literature
- Authors:
- Ilona Kędzia-Warych
- Academic press:
- Religions of South Asia (year: 2023, volume: 17, pages: 205-225), Publisher: Equinox
- Status:
- Published
- DOI:
- 10.1558/rosa.25165 – link to the publication
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Cruel substances: on binding and killing in the Tamil Siddha alchemical texts
- Authors:
- Ilona Kędzia-Warych
- Academic press:
- Cracow Indological Studies (year: 2024, volume: 26 (2), pages: 77-98), Publisher: Księgarnia Akademicka Ltd.
- Status:
- Published
- DOI:
- 10.12797/CIS.26.2024.02.03 – link to the publication
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Medicine within a Cultural Ecosystem: Representations of Nature in Tamil Siddha Medico-alchemical Texts and the Integrating Role of the Siddhars' Literature
- Authors:
- Ilona Kędzia-Warych
- Academic press:
- Cracow Indological Studies (year: 2023, volume: XXV, pages: 113-138), Publisher: Księgarnia Akademicka Ltd.
- Status:
- Published
- DOI:
- 10.12797/CIS.25.2023.01.00 – link to the publication