Religion, Narrative and Public Imagination in South Asia : Past and Place in the Sanskrit Mahabharata.

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Arguing that the combination of structural and thematic features which have helped to establish the enduring cultural centrality of religious narrative in South Asia, this book presents the Mahabharata's complex orientation to the cosmic, social and textual past. It highlights the contexts of o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hegarty, James
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2011.
Colección:RoutledgeCurzon Hindu studies series.
Temas:
Mahābhārata > Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Mahābhārata > Critique, interprétation, etc.
Mahābhārata
Hinduism in literature.
Maha ̄bha ̄rata > Criticism, interpretation, etc.
South Asia.
Hindouisme dans la littérature.
Hinduism in literature
Asie méridionale.
South Asia
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:Arguing that the combination of structural and thematic features which have helped to establish the enduring cultural centrality of religious narrative in South Asia, this book presents the Mahabharata's complex orientation to the cosmic, social and textual past. It highlights the contexts of origin and transmission and the cultural function of the Mahabharata in first millennium South Asia and, by extension, in medieval and modern South Asia.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (241 pages).
ISBN:9780203805121
0203805127

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