World Philology /

World Philology / / ed. by Ku-ming Kevin Chang, Benjamin A. Elman, Sheldon Pollock.

Philology—the discipline of making sense of texts—is enjoying a renaissance within academia after decades of neglect. World Philology charts the evolution of philology across the many cultures and historical time periods in which it has been practiced, and demonstrates how this branch of knowledge,...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2015
MitwirkendeR:
Alam, Muzaffar,
Burns, Susan L.,
Chang, Ku-ming Kevin,
El-Rouayheb, Khaled,
Elman, Benjamin A.,
Elman, Yaakov,
Grafton, Anthony,
Gruendler, Beatrice,
Güthenke, Constanze,
König, Christoph,
Lackner, Michael,
Montanari, Franco,
Pollock, Sheldon,
Wang, Fan-Sen,
Zetzel, James E. G.,
HerausgeberIn:
Chang, Ku-ming Kevin,
Elman, Benjamin A.,
Pollock, Sheldon,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (420 p.) :; 4 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. From Book to Edition: Philology in Ancient Greece
  • 2. The Bride of Mercury: Confessions of a ’Pataphilologist
  • 3. Striving for Meaning: A Short History of Rabbinic Omnisignificance
  • 4. Early Arabic Philologists: Poetry’s Friends or Foes?
  • 5. What Was Philology in Sanskrit?
  • 6. Reconciling the Classics: Two Case Studies in Song- Yuan Exegetical Approaches
  • 7. Humanist Philologies: Texts, Antiquities, and Their Scholarly Transformations in the Early Modern West
  • 8. Mughal Philology and Rūmī’s Mathnavī
  • 9. The Rise of “Deep Reading” in Early Modern Ottoman Scholarly Culture
  • 10. Early Modern or Late Imperial? The Crisis of Classical Philology in Eighteenth- Century China
  • 11. The Politics of Philology in Japan: Ancient Texts, Language, and Japanese Identity
  • 12. “Enthusiasm Dwells Only in Specialization”: Classical Philology and Disciplinarity in Nineteenth- Century Germany
  • 13. The Intelligence of Philological Practice: On the Interpretation of Rilke’s Sonnet “O komm und geh”
  • 14. Philology or Linguistics? Transcontinental Responses
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • List of Contributors
  • Index

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