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1 online resource (xii, 196 pages) : 2 illustrations |
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Philological encounters monographs ; volume 1 |
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Philological encounters monographs ; vol. 1. 2451-9200
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Resource, viewed January 4, 2017. |
| Summary |
Philology was everywhere and nowhere in classical South Asia. While its civilizations possessed remarkably sophisticated tools and methods of textual analysis, interpretation, and transmission, they lacked any sense of a common disciplinary or intellectual project uniting these; indeed they lacked a word for 'philology' altogether. Arguing that such pseudepigraphical genres as the Sanskrit 'puranas' and tantras incorporated modes of philological reading and writing, Cox demonstrates the ways in which the production of these works in turn motivated the invention of new kinds of 'sastric' scholarship. Combining close textual analysis with wider theoretical concerns, Cox traces this philological transformation in the works of the dramaturgist Saradatanaya, the celebrated Vaisnava poet-theologian Venkatanatha, and the maverick Saiva mystic Mahesvarananda. |
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Front Matter -- Introduction: Towards a History of Indic Philology -- Textual Pasts and Futures -- Bearing the Nyaveda: radtanaya's Bhvaprakana -- Vekaantha and the Limits of Philological Argument -- Flowers of Language: Mahevarnanda's Mahrthamañjar -- Conclusions: Philology as Politics, Philology as Science -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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Manuscripts, Sanskrit -- India, South -- History.
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Philology, Modern -- Research -- India, South.
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Discourse analysis, Literary -- India, South.
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Language and languages -- Study and teaching -- India, South.
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Sanskrit language -- History and criticism.
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Literature and society -- India -- History.
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Manuscrits sanscrits -- Inde (Sud) -- Histoire.
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Discours littéraire -- Inde (Sud)
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Langage et langues -- Étude et enseignement -- Inde (Sud)
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Sanscrit (Langue) -- Histoire et critique.
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Littérature et société -- Inde -- Histoire.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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Discourse analysis, Literary
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Language and languages -- Study and teaching
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Literature and society
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Manuscripts, Sanskrit
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Philology, Modern -- Research
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Sanskrit language
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India
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South India
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Literature: history & criticism |
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Print version: Cox, Whitney. Modes of philology in medieval South India. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017] 9789004331679 (DLC) 2016035562 |
| ISBN |
9789004332331 (electronic bk.) |
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9004332332 (electronic bk.) |
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9789004331679 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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9004331670 |
| Standard No. |
10.1163/9789004332331 |
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GBVCP 1014944791 |
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