Kevin McGrath, "Vy?sa Redux: Narrative in Epic Mah?bh?rata" (Anthem Press, 2019) - a podcast by Marshall Poe

In Vy?sa Redux: Narrative in Epic Mah?bh?rata (Anthem Press, 2019), Kevin McGrath examines the complex and enigmatic Vy?sa, both the primary creative poet of the Sanskrit epic Mah?bh?rata and a key character in the very epic he composes. In doing so McGrath focuses on what he considers the late Bronze Age portions of the epic feature prioritizing the concerns if the warrior class. In his discussion, McGrath distinguishes between plot and story and how this distinction comes to bear on the differences between preliterate and literate phases of the epic’s compositional history.
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