Epic Threads John Brockington on the Sanskrit Epics

Name: Epic Threads John Brockington on the Sanskrit Epics
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ISBN: 9780195650259

ISBN-10: 0195650255

ISBN-13: 9780195650259

Edition: 2000

Authors: John Brockington, Greg Bailey, Mary Brockington

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Professor J. L. Brockington is recognized as one of the world's most eminent scholars in the field of Ramayana studies. This volume collects, with some revisions, the more important articles he has written since 1969 on the Ramayana of Valmiki. These articles focus on linguistic features and style, formulaic expression and proverbs, manuscript studies, religious aspects, and the relationship between the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. Together, the articles complement Brockington's now classic work Righteous Rama and significantly advance our understanding of the Sanskrit epics.

Book details

List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/4/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 397
Size: 5.40" wide x 8.40" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English

John Brockington is Reader in the Department of Sanskrit at the University of Edinburgh



Introduction: An Empirical Approach to the Ramayana



John Leonard Brockington: publications 1969-99


Stages of composition: linguistic evidence


The Verbal System of the Ramayana, (1969-70)


The Nominal System of the Ramayana (1969-70)


Stereotyped expressions in the Ramayana (1970)


Figures of speech in the Ramayana (1977)


Valmiki's proverbs (1979)


The Syntax of the Ramayana (1982)


Manuscript studies


Textual studies in Valmiki's Ramayana (1986)


The text of the Ramayana (1991)


Stages of composition: implications


Religious attitudes in Valmiki's Ramayana (1976)


Ramo dharmabhrtam varah (1977)


The names of Rima (1997)


The names of Sita (1995)


The relationship between the Ramayana and the Mahabharata


Epic and Epitome (Ramayana, and Ramopakhyana): Sanskrit Epic Tradition I (1978)


The avatara accounts of Rama: Sanskrit Epic Tradition II (1986)


Fashions in formulae: Sanskrit Epic Tradition III (1985)


Stages of composition of the Ramayana: table


Bibliography and abbreviations


Index