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A convincing argument for the modern significance of Sanskrit literature. Sanskrit texts have usually been discussed either within the frames of anthropology and religious studies or with a veneration that has substituted for analysis. Going beyond such approaches, Simona Sawhney argues that only a literary approach that resists the closure of interpretation can reveal the fragility, ambivalence, and tension that mark the canonical texts.

The Modernity of Sanskrit

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    Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
    Publication Date: 11/12/2008
    ISBN13: 9780816649969, 978-0816649969
    ISBN10: 0816649960

    Number of Pages: 256

    Non Fiction , ELT & Literary Studies , Education

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    A convincing argument for the modern significance of Sanskrit literature. Sanskrit texts have usually been discussed either within the frames of anthropology and religious studies or with a veneration that has substituted for analysis. Going beyond such approaches, Simona Sawhney argues that only a literary approach that resists the closure of interpretation can reveal the fragility, ambivalence, and tension that mark the canonical texts.

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