Aug 2026· Asian Literature and Translation· Vol 13, pp. 101-126· 0 citations· 51 references
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This paper draws from the philosophy of literature. It makes its arguments with reference to the history of Mahābhārata scholarship, at times focusing in on Bhagavadgītā scholarship. It argues that the critically reconstituted Mahābhārata archetype admits of appreciation as a literary work; that this is so regardless of how extended one might deem its compositional period to have been; that the literary work contains its own fictional world that should not be confused with, or used to tell us about, the real world of ancient India; that hypotheses about these two worlds are of different types, the one being interpretive, the other historical; and that interpretations should be made with the entire literary work in view. The paper delineates the analytic and synthetic approaches to the text, and encourages translation.
This article explores the theological and polemical responses of the nineteenth-century Indian Muslim scholar Muḥammad Qāsim Nānautavī (d. 1980) to the emerging Hindu reformist movement Arya Samaj. Through a close reading of his treatise Javāb-i Turkī ba Turkī (A Fitting Reply), this article analyses how Nānautavī crit...
Jairus Banaji is widely regarded as one of the most innovative figures in historical materialism over the past three decades. The introductory essay traces his intellectual trajectory from his early years of political activism to his more recent, research-oriented work. In doing so, it outlines his principal research t...
This paper examines bibliomancy in Judaism. Following a historical overview of this topic, it focuses upon the late Lubavitcher Rebbe’s Igros Kodesh as a form of bibliomancy. To receive the Rebbe’s counsel and blessings, Lubavitchers insert questions and requests into this text. They find a response by opening the same...
Simon Dein· European Journal of Social S...· 0 citations
The introduction reconstructs the historical and theoretical framework within which the special issue Rhetorical Culture and Literary Practices in Italy (Thirteenth–Seventeenth Centuries) is situated, following the international conference of the same name, held at the Italian Cultural Institute in Amsterdam on 8–9 Nov...
Cristiano Amendola, C. Di Felice, Emma Grootveld· Incontri: Rivista Europea di...· 0 citations
In article, an attempt was made to carefully examine contemporary methodological approaches applied to the study of Jadid literature within the framework of literary science in post-independence Uzbekistan. The distinctive features of this new academic perspective that distinguished it from the ideological constraints...
Dilafruz Jabborova, M. Davronova, Gulbahor Ernazarova· Türk Kültürü ve Hacı Bektaş...· 0 citations
This editorial introduces the thematic issue of „Études Théâtrales” (“Theatrical Research”) devoted to Naguib Mahfouz as a playwright, a dimension of his work that remains less widely explored than his fiction. Bringing together nine studies, the issue examines Mahfouz’s theatre from complementary perspectives: its rel...
