Lakshmi Bandlamudi

Dialogics of Self, the Mahabharata and Culture

The History of Understanding and Understanding of History

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

'Dialogics of Self, the Mahabharata and Culture: The History of Understanding and Understanding of History' explores the interrelationships between individual and cultural historical dynamics in interpreting texts, using key concepts from Bakhtin's theory of dialogics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 515g
• ISBN-13: 9780857284150
• ISBN-10: 0857284150
• Artikelnr.: 34228012

Autorenporträt

Lakshmi Bandlamudi is Professor of Psychology at LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York. Her research and teaching interests are focused on the area of human development, with a special emphasis on dialogic consciousness. She is also the author of a travelogue.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. About Theories and Philosophies
1. Introduction: So What’s the Story and Why This Story?
Part II. About Self
2. Telling Tales About Lives
3. Who Tells What Kind of Stories?
Part III. About Memory
4. The Cultural Scene: Allure of Tales in the Living
5. Remembering Mahabharata: The Story Telling Time and the Time of the Story
6. Gendered Memories: The Heroine's Journey in Time
Part IV. About Interpretation
7. The Reading Act
8. Readers, Plots, and Discourses
Part V. About Self, Memory and Interpretation
9. Tales in Lives and Lives in Tales
10. Reflections on Real Time in Great Time
Appendix I: Tables
Appendix II. Interview Documents
References