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Dialogics of self, the Mahabharata, and culture : the history of understanding and understanding of history / Lakshmi Bandlamudi.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Anthem South Asian studiesPublication details: London ; New York, NY : Anthem Press, 2010.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 301 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780857289537
  • 0857289535
Other title:
  • History of understanding and understanding of history
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Dialogics of self, the Mahabharata, and culture.DDC classification:
  • 294.5/923046 22
LOC classification:
  • PN1992.77.M25 B36 2010eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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.

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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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