World philology / edited by Sheldon Pollock, Benjamin A. Elman, and Ku-ming Kevin Chang.

Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015.

Format/Description:

Book
x, 452 pages ; 25 cm

Subjects:

Philology -- History.
Philology.

Form/Genre:

History.

Contents:

Foreword / Fan-Sen Wang
Introduction / Sheldon Pollack
From book to edition: philology in ancient Greece / Franco Montanari
The bride of Mercury: confessions of a 'pataphilologist / James E.G. Zetzel
Striving for meaning: a short history of Rabbinic omnisignificance / Yaakov Elman
Early Arabic philologists: poetry's friends or foes? / Beatrice Gruendler
What was philology in Sanskrit? / Sheldon Pollack
Reconciling the classics: two case studies in Song-Yuan exegetical approaches / Michael Lackner
Humanist philologies: texts, antiquities, and their scholarly transformations in the early modern west / Anthony Grafton
Mughal philology and Rūmī's mathnavī / Muzaffar Alam
The rise of "deep reading" in early modern Ottoman scholarly culture / Khaled El-Rouayheb
Early or modern or late imperial? : the crisis of classical philology in eighteenth-century China / Benjamin A. Elman
The politics of philology in Japan: ancient texts, language, and Japaneses identity / Susan L. Burns
"Enthusiasm dwells only in specialization": classical philology and disciplinarity in nineteenth-century Germany / Constanze Güthenke
The intelligence of philological practice: on the interpretation of Rilke's sonnet "o komm und geh" / Christoph König
Philology or linguistics? : transcontinental responses / Ku-Ming Kevin Chang.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contributor:

Pollock, Sheldon I., editor.
Elman, Benjamin A., 1946- editor.
Chang, Ku-ming Kevin, 1968- editor.

ISBN:

9780674052864
0674052862

OCLC:

873238327

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