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The book is a stimulating combination of close attention to textual detail and reflection on the reading process. By bringing literary theory into contact with Mahabharata studies it does welcome wonders for both; it is original and will be influential...The tone is passionate yet restrained; the argument is engaging and direct...The project is clearly an important one both for the author and for the field of Mahabharata studies. --Simon Brodbeck, author of The Mahabharata Patriline: Gender, Culture, and the Royal Hereditary

This is a very rich book in many respects and provides an approach to the study of the MBh and its individual characters that could profitably be taken up by others. ... this book is very well worth reading and its central thesis about the dissonance created by the disconnect between dharma and duhkha offers new lines of research into both great Sanskrit epics. * Greg Bailey, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies *

<br> The book is a stimulating combination of close attention to textual detail and reflection on the reading process. By bringing literary theory into contact with Mahabharata studies it does welcome wonders for both; it is original and will be influential...The tone is passionate yet restrained; the argument is engaging and direct...The project is clearly an important one both for the author and for the field of Mahabharata studies. --Simon Brodbeck, author of The Mahabharata Patriline: Gender, Culture, and the Royal Hereditary<p><br>

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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.

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