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Cosmopolitan and Vernacular in the World of Wen 文: Reading Sheldon Pollock from the Sinographic Cosmopolis

By Ross King

Book information

Publisher
BRILL
Year
2023
ISBN
9789004437692, 9789004529441
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
10 MB (10002065 bytes)
Series
Language, Writing and Literary Culture in the Sinographic Cosmopolis
Volume
5
Edition
1
Pages
611\631
Time added
2023-06-09 08:34:19

Description

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.

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