The Sanskrit Hero

Karna in Epic Mahābhārata
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-90-04-13729-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 20, 260 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 590 g

Reihe: Brill's Indological Library

The Mahahabharata, a vital Indic epic and a flourishing influence on Indian culture past and present, has surprisingly enough hardly got much attention from scholars in the West. This latest volume in Brill’s Indological Library convincingly fills this hiatus.
At that, at the hand of the hero Karna, Kevin McGrath develops a view on the nature and function of the hero in epic Indic poetry. Making use of models taken from Indo-European and preliterate studies, a model emerges for ‘heroic religion’, having to a large extent shaped not only the Indic epics, but also cognate Indo-European epics, such as Homer’s Iliad.
As a result this work goes beyond Indology, but is of importance to classicists and comparative religionists as well.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mcgrath, Kevin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Indische & Dravidische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien

Über Autor(innen)

Kevin McGrath, Ph.D. (2001) in Sanskrit & Indian Studies, Harvard University, is an associate of the Sanskrit Department, Harvard University.