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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Lutgendorf, Philip. Hanuman's tale. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007 (OCoLC)608553412 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Philip Lutgendorf |
| ISBN: | 0195309219 9780195309218 0195309227 9780195309225 |
| OCLC Number: | 67375175 |
| Description: | xiv, 434 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Major and minor: Hanuman in Hindu life and scholarly discourse -- A long and winding tail: Hanuman in history and historiography -- Prayers, recipes, memoirs: Hanuman in Hindi popular literature -- The Hanumāyana: forty tales of Hanuman -- A reader's guide to the Hanumāyana -- Sitings and sightings: Hanuman in the cultural landscape -- Like mother, like son: Hanuman, goddesses, and women -- Monkey in the middle: Hanuman and his kin in transcultural discourse. |
| Responsibility: | Philip Lutgendorf. |
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Anything Philip Lutgendorf creates-and he has created a lot-is eagerly awaited and long treasured. Ever since the publication of his prize-winning book The Life of a Text, we've been looking forward to Hanuman's Tale. Now here it is, and it was worth the wait. Somehow Lutgendorf manages to keep the life of his massive subject ever fresh while sharing perceptions whose subtle contours and sometimes radical edges betray many years of thought. He warns us early on that we are not to receive this as "The Book" on Hanuman in English-but frankly, it is. --John Stratton Hawley, Barnard College, Columbia University
"This rich, lavish, broad-ranging book on the Indian figure of Hanuman will be the standard guide and reference source on the Indian monkey god for years to come...A readable narrative that never fails to engage as it informs."--Choice
"More than fifteen years after his first masterful book on teh vernacular Ramayana of North India, The Life of a Text: Performing the
