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Philology and criticism : a guide to Mahābhārata textual criticism /

Philology and Criticism contrasts the Mahābhārata's preservation and transmission within the Indian scribal and commentarial traditions with Sanskrit philology after 1900, as German Indologists proposed a critical edition of the Mahābhārata to validate their racial and nationalist views. Vi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Adluri, Vishwa
Otros Autores: Bagchee, Joydeep
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Anthem Press, 2018.
Colección:Cultural, historical, and textual studies of South Asian religions.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introducing the normative redaction hypothesis
  • Textual criticism and stemmatics
  • Normative redaction, archetype, and original
  • The argument from spread and the argument from resilience
  • The argument from "empty reference"
  • The argument from loss
  • Introducing the oral bardic epic hypothesis
  • Contamination : hyperarchetypal and extra-stemmatic
  • Lachmann's 1817 review as a prototype for identifying the source of contamination
  • The argument from uncertainty
  • The argument from oral source
  • The argument from (postulated) antiquity and the argument from ideology
  • Classification : typological and genealogical
  • Determining filiation
  • Eliminating witnesses
  • The argument from brevity and the argument from false premises
  • The argument from a misapprehension concerning classification (Schriftartprämisse)
  • The argument from extensive contamination
  • The argument from independent recensions
  • Reconsidering the claims of critical scholarship.