World Philology

Informationen zum Autor Sheldon Pollock is the Founding General Editor of the Murty Classical Library of India and Arvind Raghunathan Professor Emeritus of South Asian Studies at Columbia University. Benjamin A. Elman is Gordon Wu ’58 Professor of Chinese Studies at Princeton University. Ku-ming Kevin Chang is Associate Professor of History and Philology at Academia Sinica. Klappentext Philology¿the discipline of making sense of texts¿is enjoying a renaissance within academia. World Philology charts the evolution of philology across the many cultures and time periods in which it has been practiced and demonstrates how this branch of knowledge, like philosophy and mathematics, is essential to human understanding. Zusammenfassung Philology—the discipline of making sense of texts—is enjoying a renaissance within academia. World Philology charts the evolution of philology across the many cultures and time periods in which it has been practiced and demonstrates how this branch of knowledge, like philosophy and mathematics, is essential to human understanding.

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• Authors: Sheldon Pollock, Sheldon Elman Pollock
• Assisted by: Ku-ming Kevin Chang (Editor), Benjamin A Elman (Editor), Benjamin A. Elman (Editor), Sheldon Pollock (Editor), Pollock Sheldon (Editor)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.01.2015
• EAN: 9780674052864
• ISBN: 978-0-674-05286-4
• No. of pages: 464
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, HISTORY / World, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, General & world history, Literary studies: general, General and world history, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, Semantics & pragmatics