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Informationen zum Autor Kevin McGRATH was born in southern China in 1951 and was educated in England and Scotland; he has lived and worked in France, Greece, and India. He was an associate of the Department of South Asian Studies and poet laureate at Lowell House, Harvard University.Publications include, Fame (1995), Lioness (1998), Maleas (2002), The Sanskrit Hero (2004), Flyer (2005), Comedia (2008), Stri (2009), Jaya (2011), Supernature (2012), Heroic Krsna and Eroica (2013), In The Kacch and Windward (2015), Arjuna Pandava and Eros (2016), Raja Yudhisthira (2017), Bhisma Devavrata (2018), Vyasa Redux (2019), Song Of The Republic (2020), Fame (2023), On Friendship (2024) and Causality In Preliterate Song (forthcoming, 2025). McGrath lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with his family. Klappentext Vy¿sa is the primary creative poet of the Sanskrit epic Mah¿bh¿rata and 'Vy¿sa Redux' examines the many paradoxical dimensions of his narrative virtuosity in the poem where the poet is both the creator of the work and a character within it. Narrative is, in this view, cognitive rather than empirical in its organization. Zusammenfassung Vysa is the primary creative poet of the Sanskrit epic Mahbhrata and 'Vysa Redux' examines the many paradoxical dimensions of his narrative virtuosity in the poem where the poet is both the creator of the work and a character within it. Narrative is, in this view, cognitive rather than empirical in its organization. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Overview; 3. Traditions; 4. Vy¿sa; 5. After Vy¿sa; 6. Closure; 7. Homeric Odysseus; Bibliography; Index.
