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9780199860784

Disorienting Dharma Ethics and the Aesthetics of Suffering in the Mahabharata

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    9780199860784

  • ISBN10:

    0199860785

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2012-12-19
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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This book explores the relationship between ethics, aesthetics, and religion in classical Indian literature and literary theory by focusing on one of the most celebrated and enigmatic texts to emerge from the Sanskrit epic tradition, theMahabharata. This text, which is widely acknowledged to be one of the most important sources for the study of South Asian religious, social, and political thought, is a foundational text of the Hindu tradition(s) and considered to be a major transmitter ofdharma(moral, social, and religious duty), perhaps the single most important concept in the history of Indian religions. However, in spite of two centuries of Euro-American scholarship on the epic, basic questions concerning precisely how the epic is communicating its ideas aboutdharmaand precisely what it is saying about it are still being explored.Disorienting Dharmabrings to bear a variety of interpretive lenses (Sanskrit literary theory, reader-response theory, and narrative ethics) to examine these issues. One of the first book-length studies to explore the subject from the lens of Indian aesthetics, it argues that such a perspective yields startling new insights into the nature of the depiction of dharma in the epic through bringing to light one of the principle narrative tensions of the epic: the vexed relationship betweendharmaand suffering. In addition, it seeks to make theMahabharatainteresting and accessible to a wider audience by demonstrating how reading theMahabharata, perhaps the most harrowing story in world literature, is a fascinating, disorienting, and ultimately transformative experience.

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Emily T. Hudson is Assistant Professor of Religion and Literature at Boston University.

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