Philology and Criticism - A Guide to Mahabharata Textual Criticism

The first book to present a comprehensive review of the Mah¿bh¿rata Critical Edition, with overviews of stemmata (textual trees), how the logic of the stemmata determined editorial choices, and an in-depth analysis of the edition's strengths and drawbacks. An invaluable asset to any scholar working contemplating serious work on the Mah¿bh¿rata.

Sommario

List of Illustrations; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Prologue; Chapter Summaries; Introduction Ad Fontes, Non Ultra Fontes!; Chapter One Arguments for a Hyperarchetypal Inference; Chapter Two Reconstructing the Source of Contamination; Chapter Three Confusions Regarding Classification; Conclusion: Textual Criticism and Indology; Epilogue; Appendices; Glossary; Annotated Bibliography; Index.

Info autore

Vishwa Adluri holds PhDs in philosophy, Indology and Sanskrit from the New School for Social Research, Philipps-Universität Marburg and Deccan College. He teaches at Hunter College, New York, USA.

Joydeep Bagchee has a PhD in philosophy from the New School for Social Research and teaches at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Vishwa Adluri, Vishwa Bagchee Adluri, Adluri Vishwa, Joydeep Bagchee, Bagchee Joydeep
• Con la collaborazione di: Vishwa Adluri (Editore), Joydeep Bagchee (Editore)
• Editore: Anthem Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 30.06.2018
• EAN: 9781783085767
• ISBN: 978-1-78308-576-7
• Pagine: 568
• Serie: Cultural, Historical and Textu; Cultural, Historical and Textual Studies of South Asian Religions
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