| Description |
1 online resource (xxviii, 292 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART I: Narration; 1. Of Gambling: A Few Lessons from the Mahābhārata; 2. Methodology of the Critical Edition of the Mahābhārata; 3. Significance of the Early Parvans: Modes of Narration, Birth Stories and Seeds of Conflict; 4. Understanding Yudhisthira's Actions: Recasting Karma-Yoga in a Wittgensteinian Mould; PART II: Aesthetics; 5. Aesthetics of the Mahābhārata: Traditional Interpretations; 6. Karna in and out of the Mahābhārata; PART III: Ethics |
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7. Care Ethics and Epistemic Justice: Some Insights from the Mahābhārata8. Who Speaks for Whom? The Queen, the Dāsī and Sexual Politics in the Sabhāparvan; 9. Moral Doubts, Moral Dilemmas and Situational Ethics in the Mahābhārata; 10. Of Sleep and Violence: Reading the Sauptikaparvan in Times of Terror; 11. Himsā-Ahimsā in the Mahābhārata: The Lonely Position of Yudhisthira; 12. Just Words: An Ethics of Conversation in the Mahābhārata; About the Editors; Notes on Contributors; Index |
| Summary |
The Mahabharata is at once an archive and a living text, a sourcebook complete by itself and an open text perennially under construction. Driving home this striking contemporary relevance of the famous Indian epic, Mahabharata Now focuses on the issues of narration, aesthetics and ethics, as also their interlinkages. The cross-disciplinary essays in the volume imaginatively re-interpret the 'timeless' classic in the light of the pre-modern Indian narrative styles, poetics, aesthetic codes, and moral puzzles; the Western theories on modern ethics, aesthetics, metaphysics, psychoanalysis, and philosophy of science; and the contemporary social, ethical and political concerns. The essays are all united in their effort to situate the Mahabharata in the context of here and now without violating the sanctity of the 'written text' as we have it today.-- Back cover |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force. WlAbNL |
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Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Mahābhārata -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
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Mahābhārata fast |
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LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Ancient, Classical & Medieval.
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HISTORY -- Asia -- India & South Asia.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Chakrabarti, Arindam, editor.
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Bandyopādhyāẏa, Śibājī, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781317342144 |
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1317342143 |
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9781317342137 |
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1317342135 |
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