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Modes of philology in medieval South India /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cox, Whitney (Author)
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]
Series:Philological encounters monographs ; vol. 1.
Subjects:
Manuscripts, Sanskrit > India, South > History.
Philology, Modern > Research > India, South.
Discourse analysis, Literary > India, South.
Language and languages > Study and teaching > India, South.
Sanskrit language > History and criticism.
Literature and society > India > History.
Manuscrits sanscrits > Inde (Sud) > Histoire.
Discours littéraire > Inde (Sud)
Langage et langues > Étude et enseignement > Inde (Sud)
Sanscrit (Langue) > Histoire et critique.
Littérature et société > Inde > Histoire.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Discourse analysis, Literary.
Language and languages > Study and teaching.
Literature and society.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
Philology, Modern > Research.
Sanskrit language.
India.
South India.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of 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.