The modernity of Sanskrit / Simona Sawhney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sawhney, Simona.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sanskrit literature--History and criticism.

Sanskrit literature.

Hindi literature--Sanskrit influences.

Hindi literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 213 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Sanskrit texts have usually been discussed either within the frames of anthropology and religious studies or with a veneration that has substituted for analysis. Going beyond such approaches, Simona Sawhney argues that only a literary approach that resists the closure of interpretation can reveal the fragility, ambivalence, and tension that mark the canonical texts. Today we witness, Sawhney contends, the near-total appropriation of Sanskrit literature by Hindu nationalism. The Modernity of Sanskrit challenges this appropriation by exploring the complex work of Rabindranath Tagore, M. K. Gandh

Contents:

Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Smara: The Memory/Love of Kalidasa; 2. Literary Modernity and Sanskrit Poetry: The Work of Mohan Rakesh; 3. Allegory and Violence: Gandhi's Reading of the Bhagavad Gita; 4. The Lure of Violence: Dharamvir Bharati's Andha Yug: (The Blind Age); 5. Poetry beyond Art; Epilogue: Poetry and Justice; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-210) and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-6636-9

OCLC:

647886262