The paper aims at analysing some passages of Vedic Brāhmaṇas and Upaniṣads where the so-called “complete identifications” seem to be employed apart from their strictly technical or speculative exegetic function, constituting an almost narrative artifice. If the expressions of Ricoeur’s narrative theory are applied, as metaphors they result in creating “a new semantic pertinence” and as narrative units they manage to construct the connections which unify “scattered events” into an intelligible whole, respectively “by means of an impertinent attribution” and “by inventing aims and causes”.

Can the so-called "identifications" be included among the narrative techniques of the later Vedic Literature

PONTILLO, TIZIANA
2012-01-01

Abstract

The paper aims at analysing some passages of Vedic Brāhmaṇas and Upaniṣads where the so-called “complete identifications” seem to be employed apart from their strictly technical or speculative exegetic function, constituting an almost narrative artifice. If the expressions of Ricoeur’s narrative theory are applied, as metaphors they result in creating “a new semantic pertinence” and as narrative units they manage to construct the connections which unify “scattered events” into an intelligible whole, respectively “by means of an impertinent attribution” and “by inventing aims and causes”.
2012
Metaphor; Sanskrit Poetry; Vedic Literature
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