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Sanskrit texts have usually been discussed either within the frames of anthropology and religious studies or with a veneration that has substituted for analysis. Going beyond such approaches, Simona Sawhney argues that only a literary approach that resists the closure of interpretation can reveal th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sawhney, Simona
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2009.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Sanskrit literature
HISTORY > Asia > India & South Asia.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Literary.
Litterature hindi > Influence sanscrite.
Litterature sanscrite > Histoire et critique.
Hindi literature > Sanskrit influences.
Sanskrit literature > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:Sanskrit texts have usually been discussed either within the frames of anthropology and religious studies or with a veneration that has substituted for analysis. Going beyond such approaches, Simona Sawhney argues that only a literary approach that resists the closure of interpretation can reveal the fragility, ambivalence, and tension that mark the canonical texts. Today we witness, Sawhney contends, the near-total appropriation of Sanskrit literature by Hindu nationalism. The Modernity of Sanskrit challenges this appropriation by exploring the complex work of Rabindranath Tagore, M.K. Gandh.
Physical Description:1 online resource (256 pages).
ISBN:9780816666362

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