Argument and Design: The Unity of the Mah?bh?rata

Joydeep Bagchee Vishwa Adluri

ISBN 10: 9004311394 / ISBN 13: 9789004311398

Published by Brill Jun 2016, 2016

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Neuware - Argument and Design features fifteen essays by leading scholars of the Sanskrit epics, the Mahabharata and the Ramaya?a, 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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Argument and Design: The Unity of the Mah?bh?rata
• Publisher: Brill Jun 2016
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004311394
• ISBN 13: 9789004311398
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 243W x 161H x 32D millimeters 243 millimeters width by 161 millimeters height by 32 millimeters depth
• Weight: 847 grams

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Vishwa P. Adluri is Adjunct Associate Professor of Religion at Hunter College, New York and the author of numerous articles and essays on the Mahābhārata. 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 Mahābhārata Textual Criticism (Anthem Press, 2015).