Description: This book explores the relationship between ethics, aesthetics, and religion in classical Indian literature and literary theory by focusing on one of the most celebrated and enigmatic texts to emerge from the Sanskrit epic tradition, the Mahabharata.
Review Quotes: "Hudson differentiates her study [of dharma in the epic the Mahabharata] from previous works by examining the epic as a literary text, arguing that the dharma operates via 'narrative strategies' that convey ethical meaning... By combining reader-response and Sanskrit literary theory with narrative ethics, she is able to demonstrate the contentious relationship between suffering and dharma as experience by the characters in the Mahabharata and the impact it produces on its audience... Highly recommended." --CHOICE
"Hudson s text is doing some 'disorienting' work of its own by opening up this space and allowing for the above reflections to take shape. It is work that is needed and welcome."--Journal of Religion