Argument and Design: The Unity of the Mahābhārata

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-90-04-31139-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 49, 478 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 243 mm, Gewicht: 847 g

Reihe: Brill's Indological Library

Argument and Design features fifteen essays by leading scholars of the Sanskrit epics, the Mahabharata and the Ramayana, discussing the Mahabharata’s upakhyanas, subtales that branch off from the central storyline and provide vantage points for reflecting on it.
Contributors include: Vishwa Adluri, Joydeep Bagchee, Greg Bailey, Adam Bowles, Simon Brodbeck, Nicolas Dejenne, Sally J. Sutherland Goldman, Robert P. Goldman, Alf Hiltebeitel, Thennilapuram Mahadevan, Adheesh Sathaye, Bruce M. Sullivan, and Fernando Wulff Alonso.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Adluri, Vishwa

Bagchee, Joydeep

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Indische & Dravidische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Kinder- und Jugendliteratur, Märchen, Mythen, Sagen
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Hinduismus

Über Autor(innen)

Vishwa P. Adluri is Adjunct Associate Professor of Religion at Hunter College, New York and the author of numerous articles and essays on the Mahabharata. His work mainly focuses on the reception of ancient thought—both Greek and Indian—in modernity. Vishwa has a PhD in Philosophy from the New School, New York and a PhD in Indology from Philipps-Universität Marburg.

Joydeep Bagchee is a post-doctoral fellow at the Freie Universität Berlin. His current research focuses on the intersection of the textual sciences, philology, textual criticism, and the history of science. Joydeep is co-author, with Vishwa Adluri, of The Nay Science: A History of German Indology (Oxford University Press, 2014) and Philology and Criticism: A Guide to Mahabharata Textual Criticism (Anthem Press, 2015).