Dialogics of Self, the Mahabharata and Culture : The History of Understanding and Understanding of History.
Material type: TextSeries: Anthem South Asian StudiesPublisher: London : Anthem Press, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (316 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780857289537Subject(s): Dialogism (Literary analysis) | Discourse analysis, Literary | Literature and history -- India | Mahabharat (Television program : 1988-1990) | Mahābhārata | Memory -- India | Self in literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Dialogics of Self, the Mahabharata and Culture : The History of Understanding and Understanding of HistoryDDC classification: 294.5/923046 LOC classification: PN1992.77.M25 -- B36 2010ebOnline resources: Click to ViewFront Matter -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Main Body -- Part I. About Theories and Philosophies -- Chapter 1. Introduction: So What's the Story and Why this Story? -- Notes -- Part II. About Self -- Chapter 2. Telling Tales About Lives -- Note -- Chapter 3. Who Tells What Kinds of Stories? -- Part III. About Memory -- Chapter 4. The Cultural Scene: Allure of Tales in the Living Texts -- Chapter 5. Remembering 'Mahabharata': The Story Telling Time and the Time of the Story -- Chapter 6. Gendered Memories: The Heroine's Journey in Time -- Part IV. About Interpretation -- Chapter 7. The Reading Act -- Chapter 8. Readers, Plots and Discourse -- Part V. About Self, Memory and Interpretation -- Chapter 9. Tales in Lives and Lives in Tales -- Chapter 10. Reflections on Real Time in Great Time -- End Matter -- Appendix I: Tables -- Appendix II: Interview Documents -- References.
'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.
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