The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki: an epic of ancient India. Volume VI: Yuddhakāṇḍa

[...] the translation is in prose, and English prose is normally presented in paragraphs whose beginnings and ends are dictated by - and contribute to the reader's perception of - the arcs of the narrative. [...] for all that it avoids introducing what cannot be found in the original, the Princ...

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Published in:Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 2010, Vol.20 (4), p.556-559
Main Author: Brodbeck, Simon
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
Ancient civilization
Ancient civilizations
Ancient languages
Bibliographic literature
Epic
India
Indian English
Indians
Narratives
Prose
Reading
Reviews of Books
Sanskrit
Syntax
Translation
Translations
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Summary:[...] the translation is in prose, and English prose is normally presented in paragraphs whose beginnings and ends are dictated by - and contribute to the reader's perception of - the arcs of the narrative. [...] for all that it avoids introducing what cannot be found in the original, the Princeton micro-episodic style visually omits some expected narrative-structural prompts, and so sometimes makes the reading harder work than it could be. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
ISSN:1356-1863
1474-0591
DOI:10.1017/S1356186310000374