LEADER 04505nam 2200745Ia 450 001 9910457596303321 005 20210603202310.0 010 $a9786612357749 010 $a1-282-35774-3 010 $a0-520-93202-1 010 $a1-60129-384-4 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520932029 035 $a(CKB)1000000000354374 035 $a(EBL)265551 035 $a(OCoLC)475990159 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000189065 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11173117 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000189065 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10154368 035 $a(PQKB)11505886 035 $a(OCoLC)647502912 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC265551 035 $a(DE-B1597)520461 035 $a(OCoLC)70701869 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520932029 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL265551 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10129014 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL235774 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000354374 100 $a20050509d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe language of the gods in the world of men$b[electronic resource] $eSanskrit, culture, and power in premodern India /$fSheldon Pollock 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (705 p.) 300 $a"Philip E. Lilienthal book." 311 0 $a0-520-24500-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 603-648) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface And Acknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$tChapter 1. The Language Of The Gods Enters The World --$tChapter 2. Literature And The Cosmopolitan Language Of Literature --$tChapter 3. The World Conquest And Regime Of The Cosmopolitan Style --$tChapter 4. Sanskrit Culture As Courtly Practice --$tChapter 5. The Map Of Sanskrit Knowledge And The Discourse On The Ways Of Literature --$tChapter 6. Political Formations And Cultural Ethos --$tChapter 7. A European Counter cosmopolis --$tChapter 8. Beginnings, Textualization, Superposition --$tChapter 9. Creating A Regional World: The Case Of Kannada --$tChapter 10. Vernacular Poetries And Polities In Southern Asia --$tChapter 11. Europe Vernacularized --$tChapter 12. Comparative And Connective Vernacularization --$tChapter 13. Actually Existing Theory And Its Discontents --$tChapter 14. Indigenism And Other Culture-Power Concepts Of Modernity --$tAppendix A --$tAppendix B --$tPublication History --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aIn this work of impressive scholarship, Sheldon Pollock explores the remarkable rise and fall of Sanskrit, India's ancient language, as a vehicle of poetry and polity. He traces the two great moments of its transformation: the first around the beginning of the Common Era, when Sanskrit, long a sacred language, was reinvented as a code for literary and political expression, the start of an amazing career that saw Sanskrit literary culture spread from Afghanistan to Java. The second moment occurred around the beginning of the second millennium, when local speech forms challenged and eventually replaced Sanskrit in both the literary and political arenas. Drawing striking parallels, chronologically as well as structurally, with the rise of Latin literature and the Roman empire, and with the new vernacular literatures and nation-states of late-medieval Europe, The Language of the Gods in the World of Men asks whether these very different histories challenge current theories of culture and power and suggest new possibilities for practice. 606 $aSanskrit literature$yTo 1500$xPolitical aspects 606 $aSanskrit literature$yTo 1500$xHistory and criticism 606 $aIndic literature$yTo 1500$xHistory 606 $aIndic literature$yTo 1500$xPolitical aspects 606 $aPolitics and literature$zIndia$xHistory 606 $aLiterature and society$zIndia$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aSanskrit literature$xPolitical aspects. 615 0$aSanskrit literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aIndic literature$xHistory. 615 0$aIndic literature$xPolitical aspects. 615 0$aPolitics and literature$xHistory. 615 0$aLiterature and society$xHistory. 676 $a891.209 700 $aPollock$b Sheldon I$0712800 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910457596303321 996 $aThe language of the gods in the world of men$92406343 997 $aUNINA