Introduction: The Aesthetics of Suffering in the Mahabharata
Chapter One: The Implicit Literary Theory of the Mahabharata
Chapter Two: Dharma and Rupture in the Game of Dice
Chapter Three: The Eyesight of Insight: Dhrtarastra and Moral
Blindness
Chapter Four: Time that Ripens and Rots All Creatures
Chapter Five: Heaven's Riddles or the Hell Trick: Theodicy and
Narrative Strategies
Conclusion: Dharma and Suffering
Appendix: Glossary of Characters
Before joining the Religion Department at Boston University in 2010, Emily Hudson taught at Harvard University as a lecturer in the history and literature program. Situating herself methodologically at the crossroads of religion and literature, the history of religions, and religious ethics, Hudson's teaching and research interests focus on South Asian literature and literary theory and comparative religious ethics.
"Hudson differentiates her study [of dharma in the epic the
Mahabharata] from previous works by examining the epic as a
literary text, arguing that the dharma operates via 'narrative
strategies' that convey ethical meaning... By combining
reader-response and Sanskrit literary theory with narrative ethics,
she is able to demonstrate the contentious relationship between
suffering and dharma as experience by the characters in the
Mahabharata and
the impact it produces on its audience... Highly recommended."
--CHOICE
"Hudson s text is doing some 'disorienting' work of its own by
opening up this space and allowing for the above reflections to
take shape. It is work that is needed and welcome."--Journal of
Religion
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