Format:
1 Online-Ressource (XII, 196 Seiten)
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ISBN:
9789004332331
Series Statement:
Philological encounters monographs volume 1
Content:
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
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004331679
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Cox, Whitney, author Modes of philology in medieval South India Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]
Language:
English
Keywords:
Indien
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Sanskrit
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Philologie
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Geschichte
DOI:
10.1163/9789004332331
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