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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London ; New York : Anthem Press, 2010.Description: xiii, 301 p. : illOther title:
  • History of understanding and understanding of history
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 294.5/923046 22
LOC classification:
  • PN1992.77.M25 B36 2010eb
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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.
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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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