Lakshmi Bandlamudi

Dialogics of Self, the Mahabharata and Culture (eBook, PDF)

The History of Understanding and Understanding of History

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Produktbeschreibung

'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. This ambitious volume discusses the limits of fixed monologic discourses and the benefits of fluid dialogic discourses, and provides a cultural and psychological analysis of the epic Indian text the 'Mahabharata'. The problem addressed by 'Dialogics of Self, the Mahabharata and Culture' is not just how we understand and narrate history, but also how the very mechanism by which we understand and narrate history itself has a history. This volume is about the interplay of several histories that of the individual, individual's past relationship to the text, which in turn is dependent on the nature of encounters they have had in the past, and the history of the text, and the very history of understanding.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857288479
• Artikelnr.: 44472451

Autorenporträt

Lakshmi Bandlamudi

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. About Theories and Philosophies
1. Introduction: So What’s the Story and Why This Story?
Part II. About Self
2. Telling Tales About Lives
3. Who Tells What Kind of Stories?
Part III. About Memory
4. The Cultural Scene: Allure of Tales in the Living
5. Remembering Mahabharata: The Story Telling Time and the Time of the Story
6. Gendered Memories: The Heroine's Journey in Time
Part IV. About Interpretation
7. The Reading Act
8. Readers, Plots, and Discourses
Part V. About Self, Memory and Interpretation
9. Tales in Lives and Lives in Tales
10. Reflections on Real Time in Great Time
Appendix I: Tables
Appendix II. Interview Documents
References