Emily T. Hudson

Disorienting Dharma

Ethics and the Aesthetics of Suffering in the Mahabharata

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Produktbeschreibung

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, the Mahabharata.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 478g
• ISBN-13: 9780199860784
• ISBN-10: 0199860785
• Artikelnr.: 36170826

Autorenporträt

Before joining the Religion Department at Boston University in 2010, Emily Hudson taught at Harvard University as a lecturer in the history and literature program. Situating herself methodologically at the crossroads of religion and literature, the history of religions, and religious ethics, Hudson's teaching and research interests focus on South Asian literature and literary theory and comparative religious ethics.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction: The Aesthetics of Suffering in the Mahabharata
* Chapter One: The Implicit Literary Theory of the Mahabharata
* Chapter Two: Dharma and Rupture in the Game of Dice
* Chapter Three: The Eyesight of Insight: Dhrtarastra and Moral
Blindness
* Chapter Four: Time that Ripens and Rots All Creatures
* Chapter Five: Heaven's Riddles or the Hell Trick: Theodicy and
Narrative Strategies
* Conclusion: Dharma and Suffering
* Appendix: Glossary of Characters