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| Talking Animals: Explorations in an Indian Literary Genre | ||
| 作者 | Olivelle, J. Patrick |
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| 出處題名 | Religions of South Asia |
| 卷期 | v.7 n.1-3 Tradition and the Reuse of Indic Texts |
| 出版日期 | 2013 |
| 頁次 | 14 - 26 |
| 出版者 | Equinox Publishing Ltd. |
| 出版者網址 | https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/ |
| 出版地 | Sheffield, UK [謝菲爾德, 英國] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 附註項 | Patrick Olivelle is Professor of Sanskrit and Indian Religions in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin and Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities. |
| 關鍵詞 | animal fables; Pañcatantra; religion and nature; Sanskrit literature; talking animals |
| 摘要 | Animals are certainly good to think (bonnes á penser), as famously noted by Claude Lévi-Strauss, but from the dawn of literature humans have also given them voices so that they can participate vicariously in an anthropomorphized animal linguistic and social world paralleling the human, giving rise to the literary genre of the animal fable. The earliest use of animals in literature was probably as similes. Such allegories abound in the earliest strata of the R̥g-Veda. What is interesting in these comparisons for later animal tales is that a particular characteristic is singled out as defining a particular animal and constituting its very nature (svabhāva). The association of a particular species with a set of moral and intellectual qualities, with personality traits, plays a central role in later animal fables. But what about talking animals? When do they make their first appearance in the extant corpus of Indian literature? This article will reflect on the religious and cultural backdrop within which the anthropomorphizing habit of Indian animal tales took place in Indian Sanskrit literature. |
| ISSN | 17512689 (P); 17512697 (E) |
| 點閱次數 | 125 |
| 建檔日期 | 2016.12.23 |
| 更新日期 | 2020.05.05 |
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