Religion, narrative and public imagination in South Asia : past and place in the Sanskrit Mahābhārata

著者

• Hegarty, James

書誌事項

Religion, narrative and public imagination in South Asia : past and place in the Sanskrit Mahābhārata

James Hegarty

（Routledge Hindu studies series）

Routledge, 2012

• : hbk

統一タイトル

Mahābhārata

注記

Bibliography: p. [207]-216

Includes index

収録内容

• Ritual and textual structure in the Mahābhārata
• Constructing the significant past
• Constructing significant places
• The Mahābhārata in early South Asia
• Conclusions : towards an old approach to philology
• Epilogue : the construction of the significant past in the Hindi televisual Mahābhārata

内容説明・目次

内容説明

The Sanskrit Mahabharata is one of the greatest works of world literature and pivotal for the understanding of both Hindu traditions and wider society in ancient, medieval and modern South Asia. This book presents a new synthesis of philological, anthropological and cognitive-linguistic method and theory in relation to the study of narrative text by focusing on the form and function of the Mahabharata in the context of early South Asia. Arguing that the combination of structural and thematic features that have helped to establish the enduring cultural centrality of religious narrative in South Asia was first outlined in the text, the book highlights the Mahabharata's complex orientation to the cosmic, social and textual past. The book shows the extent to which narrative is integral to human social life, and more generally the creation and maintenance of religious ideologies. It highlights the contexts of origin and transmission and the cultural function of the Mahabharata in first millennium South Asia and, by extension, in medieval and modern South Asiaby drawing on both textual and epigraphic sources. The book draws attention to what is culturally specific about the origination and transmission of early South Asian narrative and what can be used to enrich our orientation to narrative in human social life more globally.

目次

1. Introduction 2. Ritual, Text and Modernity in the Sanskrit Mahabharata 3. Constructing the Significant Past 4. Constructing Significant Places 5. The Mahabharata in early South Asia 6. Conclusions: Towards an Old Orientation to Philology 7. Epilogue: The Construction of the Significant Past in the Hindi Televisual Mahabharat

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BB07108695
• ISBN:
  • 9780415558631
• LCCN: 2011007875
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: London ; New York
• ページ数/冊数: xiii, 219 p.
• 大きさ: 24 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : BL1138.26
  • DC22 : 294.5/923046
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Mahābhārata -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
  • LCSH : South Asia
• 親書誌ID:
  • BA78417499
• 統一タイトルID:
  • EA00014466