Bardic Destinies

This volume critically explores the cultural significance and fate of 'the literary' in the European and the Indian traditions as it traces the history of reception of works which have a deep hold on the lives and sensibilities of people across these cultures over a long period of time.

This volume critically explores the cultural significance and fate of the "literary" in the European and the Indian traditions as it traces the history of the reception of works that have had a deep hold on the lives and sensibilities of people across time and cultures.

The book grapples with three major concepts in the humanities-the literary, the philosophical/theological and the historical. It looks at Homer's reception by Plato; Virgil's reception by Christianity; the many responses that The Mahabharata has received over centuries and across cultures in India; and the reception of Kumaravyasa's Kumaravyasabharata, among other works, and analyses the understanding of truth, time and history that influence the reading of these works in different times and cultural contexts.

Part of the Critical Humanities across Cultures series, this book will be useful for scholars and researchers of philosophy, literature, history, comparative literature, cultural studies and post-colonial studies.

Autorentext

Krishna Kanchith R is Assistant Professor, Department of English, Christ University, Bangalore, India.

Klappentext

This volume critically explores the cultural significance and fate of 'the literary' in the European and the Indian traditions as it traces the history of reception of works which have a deep hold on the lives and sensibilities of people across these cultures over a long period of time.

Zusammenfassung
This volume critically explores the cultural significance and fate of âthe literaryâ™ in the European and the Indian traditions as it traces the history of reception of works which have a deep hold on the lives and sensibilities of people across these cultures over a long period of time.

Inhalt

Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction: Sustaining Poetic Truth across Cultures 2. From Rapture to Reason: The Literary as a Site of Truth from Homer to Hegel and Beyond 3. Kavya, Karma and Ananda: The Heterogeneity of Literary Ends in India 4. In Retrospect: Learning from Itihasa and History 5. Kavya-Itihasa of Kumaravyasa and the Many Lives of the Mahabharata 6. In-Conclusion: Listening for Literary Intimations across Cultures. Index.