James Hegarty

Religion, Narrative and Public Imagination in South Asia (eBook, PDF)

Past and Place in the Sanskrit Mahabharata

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Produktbeschreibung

The Sanskrit Mahabharata is one of the greatest works of world literature and pivotal for the understanding of both Hindu traditions and wider society in ancient, medieval and modern South Asia. This book presents a new synthesis of philological, anthropological and cognitive-linguistic method and theory in relation to the study of narrative text by focusing on the form and function of the Mahabharata in the context of early South Asia.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136645891
• Artikelnr.: 38457226

Autorenporträt

James Hegarty is Senior Lecturer in Indian Religions at Cardiff University, UK. His primary research interest is in the role of religious narrative in the cultural and intellectual history of South Asia. He has published numerous papers on Sanskrit and vernacular narrative materials.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Ritual, Text and Modernity in the Sanskrit Mahabharata
3. Constructing the Significant Past 4. Constructing Significant Places 5.
The Mahabharata in early South Asia 6. Conclusions: Towards an Old
Orientation to Philology 7. Epilogue: The Construction of the Significant
Past in the Hindi Televisual Mahabharat