The Mahabharata Patriline - Simon Pearse Brodbeck

The Mahabharata Patriline

Gender, Culture, and the Royal Hereditary
Buch | Softcover
344 Seiten
2016
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-27917-9 (ISBN)
67,30 inkl. MwSt
The Sanskrit Mahabharata (which contains the Bhagavad Gita) is sorely neglected as a classic - perhaps the classic - of world literature, and is of particularly timely human importance in today's globalised and war-torn world. This book is a chronological survey of the Sanskrit Mahabharata's central royal patriline - a family tree that is also a list of kings. Brodbeck explores the importance and implications of patrilineal maintenance within the royal culture depicted by the text, and shows how patrilineal memory comes up against the fact that in every generation a wife must be involved, with the consequent danger that the children might not sustain the memorial tradition of their paternal family. The Mahabharata Patriline bridges a gap in text-critical methodology between the traditional philological approach and more recent trends in gender and literary theory. Studying the Mahabharata as an integral literary unit and as a story stretched over dozens of generations, this book casts particular light on the events of the more recent generations and suggests that the text's internal narrators are members of the family whose story they tell.

Simon Brodbeck was educated at the universities of Cambridge and London. He has worked as a lecturer (University of Edinburgh, 2002-4), as a researcher (SOAS, University of London, 2004-7), and as a translator (Clay Sanskrit Library, 2007-8). He is currently a Reader at Cardiff University. Previous publications include Gender and Narrative in the Mahabharata, Simon Brodbeck and Brian Black (eds), Routledge, 2007.

Contents: Preface; Part 1 A Royal Patrilineal Model: Analogical deceptions; Wide shots; The Mahabharata patriline; Sraddha in the Mahabharata; Marriage and the heir; The royal hunt. Part 2 The Distant Ancestry: Female links; Yayati; The Paurava stretch; Duhsanta, Sakuntala and the Bharatas; Samvarana; Kuru. Part 3 The Pandavas and their Proximate Ancestry: Samtanu and Bhisma; Dhritarastra and Pandu; The Pandavas. Part 4 Janamejaya and the Sarpasatra: Pariksit; Janamejaya; Conclusion. Appendices; Glossary; Bibliography; Index..

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 453 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Hinduismus
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Weitere Religionen
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-138-27917-X / 113827917X
ISBN-13 978-1-138-27917-9 / 9781138279179
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