Cosmopolitan and Vernacular in the World of Wen ? : : Reading Sheldon Pollock from the Sinographic Cosmopolis / / Ross King.

• Superior document: Language, Writing and Literary Culture in the Sinographic Cosmopolis Series ; Volume 5
• Author: Thinking about 'Cosmopolitan and Vernacular' in the Sinographic Cosmopolis: What Can We Learn from Sheldon Pollock? (Conference) University of British Columbia)
• VerfasserIn: King, Ross, 1961-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill NV,, [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Language, writing and literary culture in the sinographic cosmopolis ; Volume 5.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (631 pages)

"Sheldon Pollock's work on the history of literary cultures in the 'Sanskrit Cosmopolis' broke new ground in the theorization of historical processes of vernacularization and served as a wake-up call for comparative approaches to such processes in other translocal cultural formations. But are his characterizations of vernacularization in the Sinographic Sphere accurate, and do his ideas and framework allow us to speak of a 'Sinographic Cosmopolis'? How do the special typology of sinographic writing and associated technologies of vernacular reading complicate comparisons between the Sankrit and Latinate cosmopoleis? Such are the questions tackled in this volume. Contributors are Daehoe Ahn, Yufen Chang, Wiebke Denecke, Torquil Duthie, Marion Eggert, Greg Evon, Hoduk Hwang, John Jorgensen, Ross King, David Lurie, Alexey Lushchenko, Si Nae Park, John Phan, Mareshi Saito, and S. William Wells"-- Provided by publisher.