Bardic Destinies A Comparative Study of European Poetic Indian Kavya Itihasa

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.

About the author

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

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Krishna R. Kanchith
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 17.11.2023
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies
• EAN: 9781032066233
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3206623-3
• Pages: 162
• Series: Critical Humanities Across Cultures
• Subjects: Europe, Cultural Studies, Linguistics, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, PHILOSOPHY / Eastern, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Indic, India, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: poetry and poets, East Asian and Indian philosophy, Oriental & Indian philosophy, poetics;comparative literature;comparative poetry, epic narrative analysis, literary hermeneutics, philosophical historiography, cultural reception studies, cross-cultural poetics, comparative analysis of poetic traditions