Journal of Jishou University(Social Sciences Edition) ›› 2021, Vol. 42 ›› Issue (5): 132-138.DOI: 10.13438/j.cnki.jdxb.2021.05.015

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Innovation and Treason of Domestic Appropriation in the Assimilation of Civilization:The Foreign Spread and Variation of Panchatantra

CAO Shunqing,HU Zhaoying   

  1. (Key Research Base of Comparative Literature of Sichuan Province,Sichuan University,Chengdu 610065,China)
  • Online:2021-09-01 Published:2021-11-01

Abstract: A collection of Indian fables,Panchatantra,takes an important position in the history of Indian literature with its outstanding thought and artistic characteristics.With Arabic translations of Kalilah Wa Dimnah and Arabian Nights as well as Hinduism and Buddhism as its carriers,Panchatantra has been spread to many countries in Asia and Europe,only less than The New Testament and The Old Testament of Christianity in terms of number.In the cultural exchanges between the East and the East,and between the East and the West,Panchatantra has produced a significant influence and contributed to the development of world literature.Due to differences in social customs,national characters,religious belief and translators' styles as well as factors such as time span,cultural filtering and cultural misreading,Panchatantra has formed the variation of "creative treason" in various countries,even in the cultural rules and literary discourse.The book has undergone a deep change,that is,the domestic appropriation.The phenomenon of variation occurs throughout the exchange of civilizations.Fundamentally,it is necessary to advance to the intersection of heterogeneous civilizations through the comparison of heterogeneous civilizations,to look at the collision and integration of various civilizations from an open,pluralistic,and inclusive perspective,and to explore the essential laws among them.

Key words: Panchatantra, literature, culture, fables, story

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