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  • Literary Cultures in Historyby Sheldon Pollock

    University of California Press 2003; US$ 95.00

    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... more...

  • The Language of the Gods in the World of Menby Sheldon Pollock

    University of California Press 2006; US$ 39.95

    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... more...

  • Le désidératif en védiqueby Francois Heenen

    Editions Rodopi 2006; US$ 81.20

    Il s’agit de la première étude complète sur le désidératif védique, basée sur une collection exhaustive des exemples attestés du Rigveda aux anciens Srautasutras. Toutes les variations morpho-phonologiques des thèmes sont discutées en détail. Une analyse sémantique sous un angle nouveau laisse clairement apparaître les affinités avec le futur et le prospectif, et tente également d’expliquer la valeur individuelle des deux constituants principaux, le redoublement et le suffixe - sa -. La partie monographique comporte l’inventaire complet des attestations avec tous les commentaires nécessaires sur les formes incertaines, sur les amendements, et sur... more...

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