'Dialogics of Self, the Mahabharata and Culture: The History of
Understanding and Understanding of History' explores the
interrelationships between individual and cultural historical dynamics
in interpreting texts, using key concepts from Bakhtin's theory of
dialogics. This ambitious volume discusses the limits of fixed monologic
discourses and the benefits of fluid dialogic discourses, and provides a
cultural and psychological analysis of the epic Indian text the
Mahabharata.