ISBN:
0520245008
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9780520245006
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9780520260030
,
0520260031
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9781423789635
,
1423789636
Language:
English
Pages:
xiv, 684 pages
,
maps
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24 cm
Parallel Title:
Print version Pollock, Sheldon I. Language of the gods in the world of men
DDC:
306.4490954
Keywords:
Geschichte 300 v. Chr.-1500
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Sanskrit
;
Sprachpolitik
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Literatur
;
Sprachentwicklung
;
Sanskrit literature / To 1500 / Political aspects
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Sanskrit literature / To 1500 / History and criticism
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Indic literature / To 1500 / History
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Indic literature / To 1500 / Political aspects
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Politics and literature / India / History
;
Literature and society / India / History
;
Indic literature
;
Literature and society
;
Politics and literature
;
Sanskrit literature
;
Sanskrit literature / Political aspects
;
India
;
Sanskrit
;
India / társadalmi viszonyok
;
India / történet
;
India / kultúrtörténet
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Politics and literature / History / India
;
Literature and society / History / India
;
Indic literature / History and criticism
;
Sanskrit literature / History and criticism
;
Sanskrit language
;
szanszkrit irodalom
;
szanszkrit nyelv
;
To 1500
;
Criticism, interpretation, etc
;
History
;
Sanskrit
;
Sprachentwicklung
;
Sprachpolitik
;
Geschichte 300 v. Chr.-1500
;
Sanskrit
;
Literatur
Abstract:
In this work of impressive scholarship, Sheldon Pollock explores the remarkable rise and fall of Sanskrit, India's ancient language, as a vehicle of poetry and polity. He traces the two great moments of its transformation: the first around the beginning of the Common Era, when Sanskrit, long a sacred language, was reinvented as a code for literary and political expression, the start of an amazing career that saw Sanskrit literary culture spread from Afghanistan to Java. The second moment occurred around the beginning of the second millennium, when local speech forms challenged and eventually replaced Sanskrit in both the literary and political arenas. Drawing striking parallels, chronologically as well as structurally, with the rise of Latin literature and the Roman empire, and with the new vernacular literatures and nation-states of late-medieval Europe, The Language of the Gods in the World of Men asks whether these very different histories challenge current theories of culture and power and suggest new possibilities for practice
Description / Table of Contents:
The language of the Gods enters the world -- Literature and the cosmopolitan -- The world conquest and regime of the cosmopolitan style -- Sanskrit culture as courtly practice -- The map of Sanskrit knowledge and the discourse on the ways of literature -- Political formations and cultural ethos -- A European countercosmopolis -- Beginnings, textualization, superposition -- Creating a regional world: the case of Kannada -- Vernacular poetries and politics in Southern Asia -- Comparative and connective vernacularization -- Actually existing theory and its discontents -- Indigenism and other culture-power concepts of modernity
Note:
"A Philip E. Lilienthal book"--1st printed page
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