Author: Figueira, Dorothy Matilda
Title: TRANSLATING THE ORIENT: The Reception of Sakuntala in Nineteenth Century Europe.
Description: Albany NY, SUNY State University of New York Press, 1991. 1st edition 260 pp. Pb. This book examines the emplotment of India in the Western literary imagination. Basing het discussion on the reception of an emblematic Sanskrit text, Kalidasa’s Sakuntala, Figueira studies how and why this text was distorted in translation, criticism and adaptation and isolates the linguistic errors and cultural distortions that can be grouped into trends and patterns.The unique situation of Sakuntala ‘s reception affords the author the opportunity to look at the way Europeans projected their cultural needs upon India. very good condition

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