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Literary cultures in history : reconstructions from South Asia / / editor, Sheldon Pollock



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Titolo: Literary cultures in history : reconstructions from South Asia / / editor, Sheldon Pollock Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2003
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1104 pages) : illustrations, maps
Disciplina: 891.4
Soggetto topico: Indic literature - History and criticism
Literature and society - South Asia - History
Politics and literature - South Asia - History
Soggetto non controllato: aesthetics
bengal
classics
colonialism
gujarati
hemacandra
hindi literature
independence
indian literature
indic
indigenous culture
iran
kannada
literary criticism
literature and culture
literature
nonfiction
pali
performance
persia
persian literature
philosophy
precolonial hindustan
premodern kerala
psychology
religion
sanskrit literature
sindhi
sinhala
south asia
south asian culture
tamil
tibetan literature
urdu literature
world literature
Altri autori: PollockSheldon I  
Note generali: "A Philip E. Lilienthal book."
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: pt. 1. Globalizing literary cultures -- pt. 2. Literature in southern locales -- pt. 3. The centrality of borderlands -- pt. 4. Buddhist cultures and South Asian literatures -- pt. 5. The twinned histories of Urdu and Hindi.
Sommario/riassunto: A grand synthesis of unprecedented scope, Literary Cultures in History is the first comprehensive history of the rich literary traditions of South Asia. Together these traditions are unmatched in their combination of antiquity, continuity, and multicultural complexity, and are a unique resource for understanding the development of language and imagination over time. In this unparalleled volume, an international team of renowned scholars considers fifteen South Asian literary traditions-including Hindi, Indian-English, Persian, Sanskrit, Tibetan, and Urdu-in their full historical and cultural variety.The volume is united by a twofold theoretical aim: to understand South Asia by looking at it through the lens of its literary cultures and to rethink the practice of literary history by incorporating non-Western categories and processes. The questions these seventeen essays ask are accordingly broad, ranging from the character of cosmopolitan and vernacular traditions to the impact of colonialism and independence, indigenous literary and aesthetic theory, and modes of performance. A sophisticated assimilation of perspectives from experts in anthropology, political science, history, literary studies, and religion, the book makes a landmark contribution to historical cultural studies and to literary theory in addition to the new perspectives it offers on what literature has meant in South Asia.(Available in South Asia from Oxford University Press--India)
Titolo autorizzato: Literary cultures in history  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-520-92673-0
9786612356759
1-282-35675-5
1-59734-718-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910784405003321
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