1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910456857403321

Autore

Sawhney Simona

Titolo

The modernity of Sanskrit [[electronic resource] /] / Simona Sawhney

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2009

ISBN

0-8166-6636-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (228 p.)

Disciplina

891/.2

Soggetti

Sanskrit literature - History and criticism

Hindi literature - Sanskrit influences

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-210) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Smara: The Memory/Love of Kalidasa; 2. Literary Modernity and Sanskrit Poetry: The Work of Mohan Rakesh; 3. Allegory and Violence: Gandhi's Reading of the Bhagavad Gita; 4. The Lure of Violence: Dharamvir Bharati's Andha Yug: (The Blind Age); 5. Poetry beyond Art; Epilogue: Poetry and Justice; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910779129503321

Autore

Luthar Suniya S

Titolo

Poverty and children's adjustment [[electronic resource] /] / Suniya S. Luthar

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Thousand Oaks, Calif. ; ; London, : SAGE, 1999

ISBN

0-7619-0518-9

1-322-41618-4

1-4522-6508-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 131 p.)

Collana

Developmental clinical psychology and psychiatry ; ; v. 41

Disciplina

362.775690973

Soggetti

Poor children - United States - Psychology

Children with social disabilities - United States - Psychology

Poverty - United States - Psychological aspects

Adjustment (Psychology) in children - United States

Child psychopathology - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 95-114) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Series Editor's Introduction; Preface; Chapter 1 - Introduction; Parameters and Structure; Summary; Notes; Chapter 2 - Child Attributes; Gender Differences in Vulnerability to Familial Stressors; Gender Differences in Vulnerability to Community-Related Influences; Age Differences; Personal Characteristics; Trajectories of Adjustment; Summary; Notes; Chapter 3 - Poverty and the Family: Demographic and Structural Features; Teenage Mothers; Family Structure; Ethnicity; Summary; Notes; Chapter 4 - Poverty and the Family: Psychological Processes

Poverty and Parents' FunctioningParental Behaviors; Models of Family Functioning in the Context of Poverty; Summary; Notes; Chapter 5 - Exosystemic Influences; Support Networks; The Physical Environment; Neighborhoods; Violence in the Neighborhood; Summary; Chapter 6 - Future Directions; Childhood in Poverty: Directions for Future Inquiry; Interventions; Teaching and Curricula; Summary; Notes; References; Author Index; Subject Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

Children in Poverty provides professionals and academics working in



clinical and counselling psychology with an interdisciplinary perspective on the effects on children's development of poverty lack of education and a poor social & economic background.