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| ISBN: | 1417506814
9781417506811
0791456099
9780791456095
0791456102
9780791456101
9780791487457
0791487458
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-189) and index.
English.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | "This book discusses how images of dying in the Bhagavata-Purana relate to issues of language and love in the religious imagination of India. Drawing on insights from studies in myth, literary semiotics, and depth psychology, as well as from Indian commentarial and aesthetic traditions, the author examines the power of myth and narrative (storytelling or hari katha) and shows how a detailed awareness of the Puranic imagination may lead to a revisioning of some long-held presuppositions around Indian religious attitudes toward dying. By casting Vaisnava bhakti traditions and Puranic narrative in a fresh light, the mythic imagination of the Puranas takes its place on the stage of contemporary discourse on comparative mythology and literature."--Jacket.
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| Other form: | Print version: Jarow, Rick. Tales for the dying. Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2003 0791456099 0791456102
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