Literary Cultures in History (inbunden)
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Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
1104
Utgivningsdatum
2003-05-01
Förlag
University of California Press
Illustrationer
6 maps, 2 b-w illustrations
Dimensioner
235 x 165 x 65 mm
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1548 g
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780520228214

Literary Cultures in History

Reconstructions from South Asia

av Sheldon Pollock
Inbunden,  Engelska, 2003-05-01
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A grand synthesis of unprecedented scope, "Literary Cultures in History" is the first comprehensive history of the rich literary traditions of South Asia. Together these traditions are unmatched in their combination of antiquity, continuity, and multicultural complexity, and are a unique resource for understanding the development of language and imagination over time. In this unparalleled volume, an international team of renowned scholars considers fifteen South Asian literary traditions - including Hindi, Indian-English, Persian, Sanskrit, Tibetan, and Urdu - in their full historical and cultural variety. The volume is united by a twofold theoretical aim: to understand South Asia by looking at it through the lens of its literary cultures and to rethink the practice of literary history by incorporating non-Western categories and processes. The questions these seventeen essays ask are accordingly broad, ranging from the character of cosmopolitan and vernacular traditions to the impact of colonialism and independence, indigenous literary and aesthetic theory, and modes of performance. A sophisticated assimilation of perspectives from experts in anthropology, political science, history, literary studies, and religion, the book makes a landmark contribution to historical cultural studies and to literary theory in addition to the new perspectives it offers on what literature has meant in South Asia. (Available in South Asia from Oxford University Press - India)
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"A superb collection. This pathbreaking book is sure to have wide and lasting interest not only for students of South Asian literature, but for anyone interested in the role of literature in cultural self-definition, conflict, and change." "This tour de force might be not only a landmark in Indian cultural history, but also a major accomplishment in the scholarship of global cultures, inviting us to think critically about froms of history and communities of literature."

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Sheldon Pollock is William B. Ransford Professor of Sanskrit and South Asian Studies at Columbia University. His previous publications include The Ramayana of Valmiki, Volume III: Aranyakanda (1991) and Cosmopolitanism (2002, with Homi Bhabha et al.).

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