| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 478 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
Brill's Indological library,
0925-2916 ;
volume 49
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Brill's Indological library ; v. 49.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Preliminary Material -- Introduction: From Supplementary Narratives to Narrative Supplements / Vishwa Adluri -- 1 Not without Subtales: Telling Laws and Truths in the Sanskrit Epics / Alf Hiltebeitel -- 2 On the Upatva of Upākhyānas: Is the Uttarakāṇḍa of the Rāmāyaṇa an Upākhyāna of the Mahābhārata? / Robert P. Goldman -- 3 The Epic's Singularization to Come: The Śakuntalā and Yayāti Upākhyānas in the Southern Recension of the Mahābhārata / Joydeep Bagchee -- 4 Introductory Notes on the Literary Structure of the Mārkaṇḍeyasamāsyāparvan / Greg Bailey -- 5 Of Daddies and Demons: The Rāmopākhyāna and the Rakṛovaṃśa of the Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa / Sally J. Sutherland Goldman -- 6 The Tale of an Old Monkey and a Fragrant Flower: What the Mahābhārata's Rāmāyaṇa May Tell Us about the Mahābhārata / Bruce M. Sullivan -- 7 Supernatural Conflicts, Unanimities, and Indra in the Main Story and Substories of the Mahābhārata / Fernando Wulff Alonso -- 8 Pride and Prostitution: Making Sense of the Mādhavī Exhibit in the Mahābhārata Museum / Adheesh Sathaye -- 9 The Divine Androgyne: Crossing Gender and Breaking Hegemonies in the Ambā-Upākhyāna of the Mahābhārata / Vishwa Adluri -- 10 Reflections on the Upākhyānas in the Āpaddharmaparvan of the Mahābhārata / Adam Bowles -- 11 The Status of Upākhyānas in Madeleine Biardeau's Reflections on the Mahābhārata / Nicolas Dejenne -- 12 Toward a Geography of the Mahābhārata's Uñchavq̣tti Brahman / Thennilapuram Mahadevan -- 13 Upākhyānas and the Harivaṃśa / Simon Brodbeck -- 14 The Geography of the Mahābhārata's Upākhyānas / Alf Hiltebeitel -- Index / Vishwa Adluri and Joydeep Bagchee. |
| Summary |
Argument and Design features fifteen essays by leading scholars of the Sanskrit epics, the Mahābhārata and the Rāmāyaṇa, discussing the Mahābhārata's upākhyānas , 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Mahābhārata -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Mahābhārata. |
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Mahābhārata. |
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Epic literature, Sanskrit -- History and criticism.
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Epic literature, Sanskrit. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Adluri, Vishwa, editor.
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Bagchee, Joydeep, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Argument and design. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2016 9789004311398 (DLC) 2015044374 |
| ISBN |
9789004311404 (electronic book) |
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9004311408 (electronic book) |
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9789004311398 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9004311394 |
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