Description: Further DetailsTitle: Many MahābhāratasCondition: NewISBN-10: 143848240XEAN: 9781438482408ISBN: 9781438482408Publisher: State University of New York PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 01/02/2022Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Width: 25mmItem Weight: 227gContributor: Sohini Sarah Pillai (Edited by), Nell Shapiro Hawley (Edited by)Genre: Philosophy & SpiritualityBook Series: SUNY series in Hindu StudiesTopic: Literary CriticismAuthor: Sohini Sarah PillaiDescription: Many Mahābhāratas is an introduction to the spectacular and long-lived diversity of Mahābhārata literature in South Asia. This diversity begins with the Sanskrit Mahābhārata, an early epic poem that narrates the events of a catastrophic fratricidal war. Along the way, it draws in nearly everything else in Hindu mythology, philosophy, and story literature. The magnitude of its scope and the relentless complexity of its worldview primed the Mahābhārata for uncountable tellings in South Asia and beyond. For two thousand years, the instinctive approach to the Mahābhārata has been not to consume it but to create it anew.The many Mahābhāratas of this book come from the first century to the twenty-first. They are composed in nine different languages—Apabhramsha, Bengali, English, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Sanskrit, Tamil, and Telugu. Early chapters illuminate themes of retelling within the Sanskrit Mahābhārata itself, demonstrating that the story's propensity for regeneration emerges from within. The majority of the book, however, reaches far beyond the Sanskrit epic. Readers dive into classical dramas, premodern vernacular poems, regional performance traditions, commentaries, graphic novels, political essays, novels, and contemporary theater productions—all of them Mahābhāratas.Because of its historical and linguistic breadth, its commitment to primary sources, and its exploration of multiplicity and diversity as essential features of the Mahābhārata's long life in South Asia, Many Mahābhāratas constitutes a major contribution to the study of South Asian literature and offers a landmark view of the field of Mahābhārata studies.Release Year: 2022 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Many Mahābhāratas
Title: Many Mahābhāratas
ISBN-10: 143848240X
EAN: 9781438482408
ISBN: 9781438482408
Release Date: 01/02/2022
Release Year: 2022
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Contributor: Nell Shapiro Hawley (Edited by)
Series: SUNY series in Hindu Studies
Book Title: Many Maha?Bha?Ratas
Number of Pages: 462 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: STATE University of New York Press
Publication Year: 2022
Topic: Hinduism / History, Asian / Indic, Hinduism / General, General
Item Height: 1 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Literary Criticism, Religion
Item Weight: 8 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Pillai Hawley
Book Series: Suny Series in Hindu Studies
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
