TY - BOOK ID - 8354466 TI - Modes of philology in medieval South India PY - 2017 SN - 9789004332331 9004332332 9789004331679 9004331670 PB - Leiden ;Boston Brill DB - UniCat KW - Manuscripts, Sanskrit KW - Philology, Modern KW - Discourse analysis, Literary KW - Language and languages KW - Sanskrit language KW - Literature and society KW - History. KW - Research KW - Study and teaching KW - History and criticism. KW - Literature KW - Literature and sociology KW - Society and literature KW - Sociology and literature KW - Sanscrit language KW - Foreign languages KW - Languages KW - Literary discourse analysis KW - Philology, Medieval KW - Sanskrit manuscripts KW - Social aspects KW - Sociolinguistics KW - Indo-Aryan languages KW - Manipravalam language (Malayalam) KW - Vedic language KW - Anthropology KW - Communication KW - Ethnology KW - Information theory KW - Meaning (Psychology) KW - Philology KW - Linguistics KW - Rhetoric KW - Literary style KW - Medieval philology KW - Modern philology KW - Discourse analysis, Literary. KW - Literature and society. KW - Manuscripts, Sanskrit. KW - Sanskrit language. KW - Study and teaching. KW - Research. KW - India. KW - India, South. KW - Foreign language study KW - Language and education KW - Language schools KW - India, South KW - India KW - India, Southern KW - Southern India KW - Bharat KW - Bhārata KW - Government of India KW - Ḣindiston Respublikasi KW - Inde KW - Indi KW - Indien KW - Indii͡ KW - Indland KW - Indo KW - Republic of India KW - Sāthāranarat ʻIndīa KW - Yin-tu KW - Literature: history & criticism UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8354466 AB - 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 purāṇas 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 śāstric scholarship. Combining close textual analysis with wider theoretical concerns, Cox traces this philological transformation in the works of the dramaturgist Śāradātanaya, the celebrated Vaiṣṇava poet-theologian Veṅkaṭanātha, and the maverick Śaiva mystic Maheśvarānanda. ER -