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Indian Classical Literature: Critical Essays book cover

1st Edition

Indian Classical Literature Critical Essays

Edited By Tanmoy Kundu, Ujjwal Kr. Panda Copyright 2024
198 Pages
by Routledge India

198 Pages
by Routledge India

198 Pages
by Routledge India
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This book critically analyses classical Indian literature and explores the philosophical, literary, and cultural landscapes which have emerged in response to ancient Indian texts. It highlights the relevance of these texts and studies and how they have come to influence modern Indian literature in various ways. The authors look at classical literature both as a theoretical premise that primarily... Read more

List of Contributors vii

Foreword by Kevin McGrath x

Preface by Albrecht Classen xi

Acknowledgements xx

Introduction 1

TANMOY KUNDU AND UJJWAL KR.PANDA

PART I

Natyasastra 15

1 The ‘Feminine’ Construction in Indian Classical Drama: A Study Based on Bharatmuni’s Natyasastra 17

GUTIMALI GOSWAMI

PART II

Abhijnanasakuntalam 27

2 ‘Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained’: Rethinking the Genealogy of Environmentalism and Mythology in Kalidasa’s The Recognition of Sakuntala 29

INDRAJIT MUKHERJEE

3 A Saga of Erotic Love and Juxtaposition of Contraries: A Study of Kâlidâsa’s Abhijñānaśākuntalam 43

SOUMYADEEP CHAKRABORTY

4 Shakuntala in Kalidasa: Reiterating the Known Tales 51

SARANYA MUKHERJEE

5 ‘Creatures of the Woods’: Abhijnanasakuntalam and Kalidasa’s Nature Principle 59

SANJUKTA CHATTERJEE

PART III

The Mahabharata 71

6 Alliance of Krishna and Arjuna in the Mahabharata 73

SUBHAM AMIN

7 Understanding the Epic in a Postmodern Context: Mahabharata and ‘Dharma’, Narrated and Questioned from the Fringes 81

RAJA BASU

8 ‘Khandava’, the Massacre of Non-Human Ontology: A Re-Reading of the Mahabharata 92

SAIKAT CHAKRABORTY

9 Serving Raison d’etre: Righteousness and Resistance in The Temptation of Karna 100

TUHIN MAJUMDAR

10 Neither Man Nor Woman Or Both: Exploring the Fluidity of Gender in the Mahabharata 108

SHAISTA IRSHAD

PART IV

Mṛcchakatika 117

11 Mṛcchakatika as a Mirror of Vedic State and Mass Insurgence 119

SUBHAJEET SINGHA

12 Mrichchakatika: The Triumph of Love and a ‘New World Order’ 126

ANKUR KONAR

PART V

The Cilappatikaram: A Tale of an Anklet 135

13 Sacral and Profane: Kingship, Society, and Tamil Nationalism in Ilanko Atikal’s the Cilappatikaram: A Tale of an Anklet 137

ANIMESH BAG

PART VI

Panchatantra 149

14 The Animal Question in the Panchatantra 151

SEBONTI ROY CHOWDHURY

PART VII

Gitagovindam 161

15 Aesthetics of Emotion: Sringara Rasa in Jayadeva’s Gitagovindam 163

SHRUTI DAS

Index 175

Biography

Tanmoy Kundu is an Assistant Professor of the Department of English, Midnapore College (Autonomous), Midnapore, West Bengal, India.

Ujjwal Kr. Panda is an Assistant Professor of the Department of English, Hooghly Mohsin College, West Bengal, India.

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