ISBN:
9780226340517
,
9780226340555 (Sekundärausgabe)
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
576 p.
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. Ann Arbor, Michigan Proquest Online-Ressource ISBN 9780226340555
Ausgabe:
[Online-Ausg.]
DDC:
294.5/923046
Schlagwort(e):
Draupadī
;
Mahābhārata
Kurzfassung:
Throughout India and Southeast Asia, ancient classical epics-the Mahabharata and the Ramayana-continue to exert considerable cultural influence. Rethinking India's Oral and Classical Epics offers an unprecedented exploration into South Asia's regional epic traditions. Using his own fieldwork as a starting point, Alf Hiltebeitel analyzes how the oral tradition of the south Indian cult of the goddess Draupadi and five regional martial oral epics compare with one another and tie in with the Sanskrit epics. Drawing on literary theory and cultural studies, he revea...
Anmerkung:
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