Language of the Snakes : Prakrit, Sanskrit, and the Language Order of Premodern India /

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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.Language of the Snakes traces the history of the Prakrit language as a literary phenomenon, starting from its cultivation in co...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ollett, Andrew (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2017]
Colección:South Asia Across the Disciplines
Temas:
Language and culture > India.
Prakrit languages.
Prakrit literature > History and criticism.
Sanskrit literature > History and criticism.
HISTORY / Asia / General.
asian history.
asian literature.
classical indian literary culture.
classical literature.
common era.
cosmopolitan.
creating a new language.
cultural tensions.
deccan.
demotic language practices.
first centuries.
india.
indian literary criticism.
kava movement.
language history.
language order.
language.
literary phenomenon.
old languages.
prakrit.
regional.
sanskrit.
south asia.
transregional.
vernacular.
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Sumario:A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.Language of the Snakes traces the history of the Prakrit language as a literary phenomenon, starting from its cultivation in courts of the Deccan in the first centuries of the common era. Although little studied today, Prakrit was an important vector of the kavya movement and once joined Sanskrit at the apex of classical Indian literary culture. The opposition between Prakrit and Sanskrit was at the center of an enduring "language order" in India, a set of ways of thinking about, naming, classifying, representing, and ultimately using languages. As a language of classical literature that nevertheless retained its associations with more demotic language practices, Prakrit both embodies major cultural tensions-between high and low, transregional and regional, cosmopolitan and vernacular-and provides a unique perspective onto the history of literature and culture in South Asia.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (324 p.)
ISBN:9780520968813
9783110649826
9783110667554
Acceso:Open Access

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