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Modes of philology in medieval South India / / by Whitney Cox



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Autore: Cox Whitney Visualizza persona
Titolo: Modes of philology in medieval South India / / by Whitney Cox Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Brill, 2016
Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2017]
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 196 pages) : 2 illustrations
Disciplina: 491/.1
Soggetto topico: Philology, Modern - Research - India, South
Manuscripts, Sanskrit - India, South - History
Discourse analysis, Literary - India, South
Language and languages - Study and teaching - India, South
Sanskrit language - History and criticism
Literature and society - India - History
Discourse analysis, Literary
Language and languages - Study and teaching
Literature and society
Manuscripts, Sanskrit
Philology, Modern - Research
Sanskrit language
Soggetto geografico: India
India, South
Soggetto genere / forma: Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Soggetto non controllato: Literature: history & criticism
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Introduction: Towards a History of Indic Philology -- Textual Pasts and Futures -- Bearing the Nāṭyaveda: Śāradātanaya’s Bhāvaprakāśana -- Veṅkaṭanātha and the Limits of Philological Argument -- Flowers of Language: Maheśvarānanda’s Mahārthamañjarī -- Conclusions: Philology as Politics, Philology as Science -- Bibliography -- Index.
Sommario/riassunto: 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 purāṇas 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 śāstric scholarship. Combining close textual analysis with wider theoretical concerns, Cox traces this philological transformation in the works of the dramaturgist Śāradātanaya, the celebrated Vaiṣṇava poet-theologian Veṅkaṭanātha, and the maverick Śaiva mystic Maheśvarānanda.
Titolo autorizzato: Modes of philology in medieval South India  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 90-04-33233-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910220028103321
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Serie: Philological Encounters Monographs ; 01.