| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 378 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover Page -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART I. The [Im]Possibility of Translation: Can We Translate the Other? -- 1. Translation Theories -- 2. Translation and Mystification: Wilkins -- 3. European Linguists, Philosophers, and Intellectual Rabble-Rousers -- PART II. Translating Commensurability, Class, and Caste -- 4. Brahman as the Cosmic Translator and the Gītā's Potentiality in American Transcendentalism -- 5. Nationalism, Sedition, and Mysticism -- PART III. The Defeat of Translation and the End of Criticism -- 6. Gandhi's Convenient Text -- 7. Ambedkar's Counter-Revolutionary Gītā: Historical and Political Context -- PART IV. The Western Wartime, Countercultural, and Neo-Liberal Gītā -- 8. The Nazi Kṣatriya Ethos: Hauer and Himmler -- 9. Is This What Krishna Meant? T.S. Eliot and J. Robert Oppenheimer -- 10. What Becomes of Dharma in a Conquered Country? Simone Weil and Savitri Devi -- 11. The Beats, the Monk, and Multicultural Artists: Ginsberg, Levertov, Merton, Glass, and Adams |
| Summary |
This volume stems from the understanding that historiographical analyses of the Gita's reception overlook the element of its translation. It begins with this recognition and posits translation as fundamental to any understanding of the Gita's reception. It examines in depth and compares how translations of the Gita do not seek the same aims in all places and at all times and recognises that translation theories and methodologies are not uniform across nations and eras. Therefore, this volume looks at insolites (unusual, strange) readings of the Gita and how they seek to fill the hermeneutical gap between readings tied to its canonical and scriptural status and those that are distant from the text's tradition |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 31, 2023) |
| SUBJECT |
Bhagavadgītā. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79142762
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Bhagavadgītā -- Translations
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Bhagavadgītā -- Criticism and interpretation
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Bhagavadgītā fast |
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Religion & beliefs.
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Religion.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191986475 |
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019198647X |
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9780198873495 |
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0198873492 |
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