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Portugal-Goa : os Orientes e os Ocidentes / the East(s) and the West(s)
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The western reception of the
Bhagavad Gita
Dorothy Figueira
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AbstractThis essay examines the reception of the Bhagavad Gita, a fundamental Hindu religious poem embedded in the Sanskrit epic, the Mahabharata, from its initial translation into English in 1785. Beginning with the commentaries to the text by A.W. Schlegel, Wilhelm von Humboldt and Hegel in nineteenth- century Germany and moving on to its treatment in the hands of American Transcendantalists (Whitman, Emerson), I then examine twentieth-century appropriations of the Gita in the hands of T.S. Eliot, Simone Weil and Philip Glass. In each instance, the Gita provides a literary alibi onto which individual authors project their longings.
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