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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460028003321

Autore

Bandlamudi Lakshmi

Titolo

Dialogics of self, the Mahabharata, and culture : the history of understanding and understanding of history / / Lakshmi Bandlamudi [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Anthem Press, , 2010

ISBN

1-283-37730-6

9786613377302

0-85728-953-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 301 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Anthem South Asian Studies

Disciplina

294.5/923046

Soggetti

Literature and history - India

Memory - India

Discourse analysis, Literary

Dialogism (Literary analysis)

Self in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

About theories and philosophies. Introduction. So what's the story and why this story? -- About self. Telling tales about lives -- Who tells what kinds of stories? -- About memory. The cultural scene : allure of tales in the living texts -- Remembering the Mahabharata : the story telling time and the time of the story -- Gendered memories : the heroine's journey in time -- About interpretation. The reading act -- Readers, plots, and discourses -- About self, memory, and interpretation. Tales in lives and lives in tales -- Reflections on real time in great time.

Sommario/riassunto

'Dialogics of Self, the Mahabharata and Culture: The History of Understanding and Understanding of History' explores the interrelationships between individual and cultural historical dynamics in interpreting texts, using key concepts from Bakhtin’s theory of dialogics.