Translating the Orient: The Reception of Sakuntala in Nineteenth-Century Europe (Suny Hindu Studies) - Hardcover

Figueira, Dorothy Matilda

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0791403270 ISBN 13: 9780791403273

Verlag: STATE UNIV OF NEW YORK PR, 1991

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This book examines the emplotment of India in the Western literary imagination. Basing her discussion on the reception of an emblematic Sanskrit text, Kalidasa's SAakuntala, Figueira studies how and why this text was distorted in translation, criticism, and adaptation, and isolates the linguistic errors and cultural distortions that can be grouped into trends and patterns. The unique situation of SAakuntala's reception affords the author the opportunity to look at the way Europeans projected their cultural needs upon India.

The author puts into perspective an entire social and intellectual history of Europe's encounter with Indian culture, an examination of its cultural and political consequences, and a philosophical inquiry into differences between Eastern and Western world views.

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Dorothy M. Figueira is Assistant Professor of Comparative Studies at State University of New York, Stony Brook.

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• Verlag: STATE UNIV OF NEW YORK PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1991
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0791403270
• ISBN 13: 9780791403273
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 260
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