Research Catalog

Title

Literary and cultural readings of Goddess spirituality : the red shadow of the mother / by Anway Mukhopadhyay.

Author

Mukhopadhyay, Anway,

Publication

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.

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Description

xxi, 174 pages; 22 cm

Subject

• Goddess religion in literature
• Goddesses in literature
• Mother goddesses

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The Polynymous Mother and Cultural Plurality: Prayerful Meditation on the "Mother" in Different Religious Literary Cultures in India -- The Circle of Aphrodite, Diotima, and the Circle of Goddess Kamakbya -- Swami Vivekananda and the Magna Mater: Non-Dualism and the Persistence of the "Mother" -- The Confluence of Mothers in Sri Aurobindo's Savitri: Exploring the Divergence between Aufhebung and "Integration" from the Perspective of Goddess Spirituality -- Sarasvati's English: Celebrating a Translatable Muse -- Towards Pashyanti: Holderlin's Diotima, Jibanananda's Banalata and the Tan the Philosophy of Language -- Invoking the Goddess of Perfect Wisdom: The Two Kashi Yatras in Kim and the Absent Prajnaparamita -- The Trident and the Vina: Karni Mata and Mira Bai -- Two Modes of Assertive Female Subjectivity -- Hailing Her from Outside the Christian Circle: The Virgin Mary and Sacredsecular Motherhood in Two Stories of Saiyad Mujtaba Ali -- Goddesses Pagan and Christian: Christine de Pizan's City of Ladies, Euhemerism and the Hindu Goddesses -- Devi and the Dacoits: The Place of the Mother Goddess in the [Hi]stories of the Dacoits of Bengal -- Outside the Chakra: Modernization of Tantra and Tantricization of Modernity in the "Sacredsecular" Enterprises of Lata Mani / Madhu Khanna, William Schindler.

ISBN

• 1443899909
• 9781443899901

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library