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Language of the Snakes : Prakrit, Sanskrit, and the Language Order of Premodern India / / Andrew Ollett



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Autore: Ollett Andrew <1986-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Language of the Snakes : Prakrit, Sanskrit, and the Language Order of Premodern India / / Andrew Ollett Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , [2017]
©2017
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xi, 308 pages) : illustrations, charts, map; PDF, digital file(s)
Disciplina: 891/.3
Soggetto topico: Language and culture - India
Sanskrit literature - History and criticism
Prakrit languages
Prakrit literature - History and criticism
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Soggetto non controllato: asian history
asian literature
classical indian literary culture
classical literature
common era
cosmopolitan
creating a new language
cultural tensions
deccan
demotic language practices
first centuries
india
indian literary criticism
kava movement
language history
language order
language
literary phenomenon
old languages
prakrit
regional
sanskrit
south asia
transregional
vernacular
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-295) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Prakrit in the language order of India -- Inventing Prakrit: the languages of power -- Inventing Prakrit: the languages of literature -- The forms of Prakrit literature -- Figuring Prakrit -- Knowing Prakrit -- Forgetting Prakrit.
Sommario/riassunto: "Language of the Snakes traces the history of the Prakrit language as a literary phenomenon, starting from its cultivation in courts of the Deccan in the first few centuries of the common era. Although little studied today, Prakrit was an important vector of the "kavya movement," and once joined Sanskrit at the apex of classical Indian literary culture. The opposition--as well as underlying identity--between Prakrit and Sanskrit was at the center of an enduring "language order" in India, a set of ways of thinking about, naming, classifying, representing, and ultimately using languages. As a language of classical literature that nevertheless retained its associations with more demotic language practices, Prakrit both embodies major cultural tensions--between high and low, transregional and regional, cosmopolitan and vernacular--and provides a unique perspective onto the history of literature and culture in South Asia."--Provided by publisher.
Titolo autorizzato: Language of the snakes  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-520-96881-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910227354203321
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Serie: South Asia across the disciplines.