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Modes of Philology in Medieval South India

Whitney Cox
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      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.
      Format: Hardback CONTRIBUTORS: Whitney Cox EAN: 9789004331679 COUNTRY: Netherlands PAGES: WEIGHT: 451 g HEIGHT: 235 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Brill DATE PUBLISHED: 2016-10-13 CITY: GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / General WIDTH: 155 cm SPINE:

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      Indic, East Indo-European and Dravidian languages, Literature: history and criticism

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      Whitney Cox, University of Chicago, is Associate Professor in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations at that university and a member of the Collegium of the Zukunftsphilologie research project, Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin. He is the author of Politics, Kingship and Poetry in Medieval South India: Moonset on Sunrise Mountain (Cambridge, 2016)
      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.
      Format: Hardback CONTRIBUTORS: Whitney Cox EAN: 9789004331679 COUNTRY: Netherlands PAGES: WEIGHT: 451 g HEIGHT: 235 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Brill DATE PUBLISHED: 2016-10-13 CITY: GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / General WIDTH: 155 cm SPINE:

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      Indic, East Indo-European and Dravidian languages, Literature: history and criticism

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      Whitney Cox, University of Chicago, is Associate Professor in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations at that university and a member of the Collegium of the Zukunftsphilologie research project, Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin. He is the author of Politics, Kingship and Poetry in Medieval South India: Moonset on Sunrise Mountain (Cambridge, 2016)

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