Dialogics of self, the Mahabharata, and culture : the history of understanding and understanding of history / Lakshmi Bandlamudi.
Material type: TextSeries: Anthem South Asian studiesPublication details: London ; New York, NY : Anthem Press, 2010.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 301 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
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- 9780857289537
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- History of understanding and understanding of history
- Mahabharat (Television program : 1988-1990)
- Mah�abh�arata
- Mahabharat (Television program : 1988-1990)
- Mahabharata
- Mahabharat (Television program : 1988-1990)
- Mah�abh�arata
- Literature and history -- India
- Memory
- Discourse analysis, Literary
- Dialogism (Literary analysis)
- Self in literature
- RELIGION -- Hinduism -- Sacred Writings
- PHILOSOPHY -- Criticism
- Dialogism (Literary analysis)
- Discourse analysis, Literary
- Literature and history
- Memory
- Self in literature
- India
- 294.5/923046 22
- PN1992.77.M25 B36 2010eb
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-301).
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.
Print version record.
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.
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