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Unit 6 |
English 203:
Literature of
the NonWestern World
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Questions:
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Consider
these questions before you log-on to the chat session. You
do not have to write essay answers, but you should look at relevant passages
of the text & jot down several points before the chat session so that
you can easily contribute to the discussion.
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Mahadeviyakka in #17 (p. 1419) says her love for
God spins out from the very marrow of her bones in something resembling
a silkworm spinning out a silk cocoon. Of
course silk is beautiful. Is
this the sole dimension or intent of the image -- to say that the poems
expressing a love of God are as beautiful as silk? Explain
how this can be a bad thing.
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Explain #124 (p 1420): “can you peel/ the Nothing,
the Nakedness/ that covers & veils?” What
does this mean?
Hint: compare the Hindu idea here to the indiscernible
Dao that leaves yin/yang traces.
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How
do you know that Govindadsa is devoted to Krishna? What
evidence is there in the poems to support this?
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Early
in the play the king is worried that Sakuntala will not be able to respond
to his love or marry him because her father is Kanva. He discovers
that Kanva is not her actual, biological father. What is the problem
here? What would be the problem, if Kanva was Sakuntala's biological
father?
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Explain
how the king's forgetfulness offers a Hindu model to illustrate what is
wrong with us or with the world.
Short
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