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The language of the gods in the world of men : Sanskrit, culture, and power in premodern India / / Sheldon Pollock



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Autore: Pollock Sheldon I Visualizza persona
Titolo: The language of the gods in the world of men : Sanskrit, culture, and power in premodern India / / Sheldon Pollock Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2006
©2006
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xv, 684 pages) : maps
Disciplina: 891.209
Soggetto topico: Sanskrit literature - To 1500 - Political aspects
Sanskrit literature - To 1500 - History and criticism
Indic literature - To 1500 - History
Indic literature - To 1500 - Political aspects
Politics and literature - India - History
Literature and society - India - History
Soggetto non controllato: afghanistan
ancient language
asian studies
bhasa
cultural india
dharmic religion
dialect
history of language
history
identity
india
indian philosophy
indian
indonesia
java
language
latin literature
linguistics
literary criticism
literary culture
literary studies
literature
local dialects
media studies
medieval europe
nation state
nation
nonfiction
poetry
politics
polity
roman empire
sacred language
sanskrit language
sanskrit
south asia
vernacular literature
vernacularism
Note generali: "Philip E. Lilienthal book."
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 603-648) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Preface And Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Language Of The Gods Enters The World -- Chapter 2. Literature And The Cosmopolitan Language Of Literature -- Chapter 3. The World Conquest And Regime Of The Cosmopolitan Style -- Chapter 4. Sanskrit Culture As Courtly Practice -- Chapter 5. The Map Of Sanskrit Knowledge And The Discourse On The Ways Of Literature -- Chapter 6. Political Formations And Cultural Ethos -- Chapter 7. A European Counter cosmopolis -- Chapter 8. Beginnings, Textualization, Superposition -- Chapter 9. Creating A Regional World: The Case Of Kannada -- Chapter 10. Vernacular Poetries And Polities In Southern Asia -- Chapter 11. Europe Vernacularized -- Chapter 12. Comparative And Connective Vernacularization -- Chapter 13. Actually Existing Theory And Its Discontents -- Chapter 14. Indigenism And Other Culture-Power Concepts Of Modernity -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Publication History -- Bibliography -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: In 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.
Altri titoli varianti: Sanskrit, culture, and power in premodern India
Titolo autorizzato: The language of the gods in the world of men  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 9786612357749
1-282-35774-3
0-520-93202-1
1-60129-384-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 996248315003316
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Serie: ACLS Fellows' Publications.