The modernity of Sanskrit / / Simona Sawhney
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| Autore: |
Sawhney Simona
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| Titolo: |
The modernity of Sanskrit / / Simona Sawhney
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| Pubblicazione: | Minneapolis : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 2009 |
| ©2009 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xi, 213 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 891/.2 |
| Soggetto topico: | Sanskrit literature - History and criticism |
| Hindi literature - Sanskrit influences | |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The modernity of Sanskrit |
| ISBN: | 0-8166-6636-9 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910780974103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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