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Author Cox, Whitney, author.

Title Modes of philology in medieval South India / by Whitney Cox.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]
©2017

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 196 pages) : 2 illustrations.
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Series Philological encounters monographs ; volume 1
Philological encounters monographs ; vol. 1. 2451-9200
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and 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.
Local Note JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access
Subject Manuscripts, Sanskrit -- India, South -- History.
Manuscripts, Sanskrit.
South India.
History.
Philology, Modern -- Research -- India, South.
Philology, Modern -- Research.
Philology, Modern.
Discourse analysis, Literary -- India, South.
Discourse analysis, Literary.
Language and languages -- Study and teaching -- India, South.
Language and languages -- Study and teaching.
Sanskrit language -- History and criticism.
Sanskrit language.
Literature and society -- India -- History.
Literature and society.
India.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Cox, Whitney. Modes of philology in medieval South India. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017] 9789004331679 (DLC) 2016035562
ISBN 9789004332331 (electronic book)
9004332332 (electronic book)
9789004331679 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9004331670
Standard No. 10.1163/9789004332331