Brian Black, "In Dialogue with the Mahābhārata" (Routledge, 2020)

New Books in Indian Religions · Dec 7, 2020 · 1h 15m

This book offers the first extensive study of the dialogue form in the Mahābhārata. Despite its importance, the variety of uses and implications of dialogue in the Mahābhārata remain relatively unexplored, which leaves a significant gap in the understanding of this key work of Indian literature. Dialogue is a recurring and significant feature of Indian religious and philosophical literature generally, but nowhere is it explored more elaborately and more profoundly than in the Mahābhārata.

Brian Black's In Dialogue with the Mahābhārata (Routledge, 2020), therefore, examines the details of some…