Bardic Destinies: A Comparative Study of European Poetic and Indian Kavya-Itihasa Tradition (Critical Humanities Across Cultures) - Softcover

Kanchith, Krishna R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1032326557 ISBN 13: 9781032326559

Publisher: Routledge India, 2025

Synopsis

This volume critically explores the cultural significance and fate of the “literary” in the European and the Indian traditions as it traces the history of the reception of works that have had a deep hold on the lives and sensibilities of people across time and cultures.

The book grapples with three major concepts in the humanities―the literary, the philosophical/theological and the historical. It looks at Homer’s reception by Plato; Virgil’s reception by Christianity; the many responses that The Mahabharata has received over centuries and across cultures in India; and the reception of Kumaravyasa’s Kumaravyasabharata, among other works, and analyses the understanding of truth, time and history that influence the reading of these works in different times and cultural contexts.

Part of the Critical Humanities across Cultures series, this book will be useful for scholars and researchers of philosophy, literature, history, comparative literature, cultural studies and post-colonial studies.

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About the Author

Krishna Kanchith R is Assistant Professor, Department of English and Cultural Studies, Christ University, Bangalore, India.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge India
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032326557
• ISBN 13: 9781032326559
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 174