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Author Cox, Whitney, author.

Title Modes of philology in medieval South India / by Whitney Cox
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 196 pages) : 2 illustrations
Series Philological encounters monographs ; volume 1
Philological encounters monographs ; vol. 1. 2451-9200
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
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 'puranas' 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 'sastric' scholarship. Combining close textual analysis with wider theoretical concerns, Cox traces this philological transformation in the works of the dramaturgist Saradatanaya, the celebrated Vaisnava poet-theologian Venkatanatha, and the maverick Saiva mystic Mahesvarananda
Analysis Literature: history & criticism
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Resource, viewed January 4, 2017
Subject 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
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
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016057063
ISBN 9789004332331
9004332332