World philology / edited by Sheldon Pollock, Benjamin A. Elman, and Ku-ming Kevin Chang.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pollock, Sheldon I., editor.

Elman, Benjamin A., 1946- editor.

Chang, Ku-ming Kevin, 1968- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philology--History.

Philology.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

x, 452 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015.

Contents:

Foreword / Fan-Sen Wang

Introduction / Sheldon Pollack

From book to edition: philology in ancient Greece / Franco Montanari

The bride of Mercury: confessions of a 'pataphilologist / James E.G. Zetzel

Striving for meaning: a short history of Rabbinic omnisignificance / Yaakov Elman

Early Arabic philologists: poetry's friends or foes? / Beatrice Gruendler

What was philology in Sanskrit? / Sheldon Pollack

Reconciling the classics: two case studies in Song-Yuan exegetical approaches / Michael Lackner

Humanist philologies: texts, antiquities, and their scholarly transformations in the early modern west / Anthony Grafton

Mughal philology and Rūmī's mathnavī / Muzaffar Alam

The rise of "deep reading" in early modern Ottoman scholarly culture / Khaled El-Rouayheb

Early or modern or late imperial? : the crisis of classical philology in eighteenth-century China / Benjamin A. Elman

The politics of philology in Japan: ancient texts, language, and Japaneses identity / Susan L. Burns

"Enthusiasm dwells only in specialization": classical philology and disciplinarity in nineteenth-century Germany / Constanze Güthenke

The intelligence of philological practice: on the interpretation of Rilke's sonnet "o komm und geh" / Christoph König

Philology or linguistics? : transcontinental responses / Ku-Ming Kevin Chang.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780674052864

0674052862

OCLC:

873238327