The Ramayana Culture Text Performance and Iconography
Bose, Mandakranta (Ed.)
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Book ID : 18081
ISBN-10 : 81-246-0224-7 / 8124602247
ISBN-13 : 978-81-246-0224-9 / 9788124602249
Place
of Publication :
Delhi
Year
of Publication :
2003
Edition :
Language : English
xvi, 184p., 10 Photo, Index, 23 cm.
CONTENTS
DESCRIPTION
These essays, originally presented at an international conference are in the fore front of the modern responce to an ancient work that has gained a new critical and social revelance in contemporary scholarship. Approching the Ramayana from several angels in an attempt to understand its aesthetic and ideological meaning, they examin the epic through the prespective of textual critism, art architecture and film. Therby they address critical issues such as the seminal status of Valmiki, the underlying problem of canonicity itself the importance of other so-called derivative-Ramayanas, the implications of gender representation, and the cultural manipulation of social ideals relating to the position of women and the idelaisation of love that achives its highest value in marriage.
