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

• Autore: Bandlamudi Lakshmi
• Pubblicazione: London : , : Anthem Press, , 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 301 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 294.5/923046
• Soggetto topico: Literature and history - India; Memory - India; Discourse analysis, Literary; Dialogism (Literary analysis); Self in literature
• 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.
• Altri titoli varianti: Dialogics of Self, the Mahabharata, & Culture
• Titolo autorizzato: Dialogics of self, the Mahabharata, and culture
• ISBN: 1-283-37730-6; 9786613377302; 0-85728-953-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910460028003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Anthem South Asian Studies