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Modes of philology in medieval South India / by Whitney Cox.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cox, Whitney.
- Series:
- Philological Encounters Monographs 01.
- Philological encounters monographs ; v. 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philology, Modern--Research--India, South.
- Philology, Modern.
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit--India, South--History.
- Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
- Discourse analysis, Literary--India, South.
- Discourse analysis, Literary.
- Language and languages--Study and teaching--India, South.
- Language and languages.
- Sanskrit language--History and criticism.
- Sanskrit language.
- Literature and society--India--History.
- Literature and society.
- Language and languages--Study and teaching.
- Philology, Modern--Research.
- India.
- South India.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 196 pages) : 2 illustrations.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Brill 2016
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Resource, viewed January 4, 2017.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9789004332331
- 9004332332
- OCLC:
- 965781361
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004332331 DOI
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