Dialogics of self, the Mahabharata, and culture [electronic resource] : the history of understanding and understanding of history / Lakshmi Bandlamudi.
Publication details: London ; New York : Anthem Press, 2010.Description: xiii, 301 p. : illISBN:- 9781843318354 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9780857289537 (e-book : alk. paper)
- 1843318350 (hardback)
- 0857289535 (e-book)
- History of understanding and understanding of history
- 294.5/923046 22
- PN1992.77.M25 B36 2010eb
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Includes bibliographical references.
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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