Disorienting Dharma: Ethics and the Aesthetics of Suffering in the Mahabharata (AAR Religions in Translation)
"Hudson differentiates her study [of dharma in the epic theMahabharata] from previous works by examining the epic as a literary text, arguing that the dharma operates via 'narrative strategies' that convey ethical meaning... By combining reader-response and Sanskrit literary theory with narrative ethics, she is able to demonstrate the contentious relationship between suffering and dharma as experience by the characters in theMahabharataand the impact it produces on its audience... Highly recommended." --CHOICE