02709nam 2200577 a 450 991078097410332120230504212303.00-8166-6636-9(CKB)2520000000008001(EBL)496600(OCoLC)647886262(SSID)ssj0000340513(PQKBManifestationID)11264177(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000340513(PQKBWorkID)10388293(PQKB)11285518(MdBmJHUP)muse39506(Au-PeEL)EBL496600(CaPaEBR)ebr10370423(CaONFJC)MIL523426(MiAaPQ)EBC496600(EXLCZ)99252000000000800120080627h20092009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe modernity of Sanskrit /Simona SawhneyMinneapolis :University of Minnesota Press,2009.©20091 online resource (xi, 213 pages)Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-4996-0 0-8166-4995-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-210) and index.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; IndexSanskrit 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. GandhSanskrit literatureHistory and criticismHindi literatureSanskrit influencesSanskrit literatureHistory and criticism.Hindi literatureSanskrit influences.891/.2Sawhney Simona1562905MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910780974103321The modernity of Sanskrit3830913UNINA