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      Aryans, Jews, Brahmins: Theorizing Authority through Myths of Identity

      Dorothy M. Figueira

      Explores the construction of the Aryan myth and its uses in both India and Europe.

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      Translating the Orient: The Reception of Sakuntala in Nineteenth-Century Europe

      Dorothy M. Figueira

      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…

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      The Exotic: A Decadent Quest

      Dorothy M. Figueira

      Figueira (comparative literature, U. of Illinois) identifies how the Gadamerian concept of prejudice in the form of specific exotic clichTs elucidates the dynamics of exoticism, while tracing Sanskrit studies in…

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      The Exotic: A Decadent Quest

      Dorothy M. Figueira

      Figueira (comparative literature, U. of Illinois) identifies how the Gadamerian concept of prejudice in the form of specific exotic clichTs elucidates the dynamics of exoticism, while tracing Sanskrit studies in…

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      Otherwise Occupied: Pedagogies of Alterity and the Brahminization of Theory

      Dorothy M. Figueira

      Questions whether theories and pedagogies of alterity have allowed us to engage the Other.

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      Otherwise Occupied: Pedagogies of Alterity and the Brahminization of Theory

      Dorothy M. Figueira

      Questions whether theories and pedagogies of alterity have allowed us truly to engage the other.

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      The Afterlives of the Bhagavad Gita

      Prof Dorothy M. Figueira

      The book looks at insolites readings of the Gita and how they seek to fill the hermeneutical gap between readings tied to its canonical and scriptural status and those readings…

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      Literary Culture and Translation: New Aspects of Comparative Literature

      This volume makes significant and fresh contributions to fields of comparative literature and translation which are assuming increasing importance and relevance in the realm of literary and cultural studies. Divided…

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