Sheldon Pollock is William B. Ransford Professor of Sanskrit and South Asian Studies at Columbia University, and former George V. Bobrinskoy Distinguished Service Professor at The University of Chicago. His previous publications include Literary Cultures in History: Reconstructions from South Asia (California, 2003), Cosmopolitanism (2002, with Homi Bhabha et al.), and The Ramayana of Valmiki, Volume III: Aranyakanda (1991), and Volume II: Ayodhyakanda (1986).
Coomaraswamy Book Prize, Association for Asian Studies
32nd Lionel Trilling Award, Columbia College and Flora Levy Foundation of Lafayette, La.
2006 Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division Awards for Excellence in Literature, Language, & Linguistics, The Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division (PSP) of the Association of American Publishers (AAP)
In this work of impressive scholarship, Sheldon Pollock explores the remarkable rise and fall of Sanskrit, India's ancient language, as a vehicle of poetry and polity. He traces the two great moments of its transformation: the first around the beginning of the Common Era, when Sanskrit, long a sacred language, was reinvented as a code for literary and political expression, the start of an amazing career that saw Sanskrit literary culture spread from Afghanistan to Java. The second moment occurred around the beginning of the second millennium, when local speech forms challenged and eventually replaced Sanskrit in both the literary and political arenas. Drawing striking parallels, chronologically as well as structurally, with the rise of Latin literature and the Roman empire, and with the new vernacular literatures and nation-states of late-medieval Europe, The Language of the Gods in the World of Men asks whether these very different histories challenge current theories of culture and power and suggest new possibilities for practice.
“Sheldon Pollock’s magisterial essay on the history and fate of Sanskrit is the kind of scholarly synthesis and insightful interpretation that comes along, at most, once in a generation or two. It is a bold work, panoramic in scope, forthright in conception and argument, and extraordinarily rich in philological-historical detail.”—Journal of Asian Stds (jas) / SE Asia & Western Pacific
“A tour de force.”—American Historical Review
“An intriguing study of classical and medieval India, but also a useful contribution to the theoretical literature. . . . a grand narrative . . . more accessible to the non-specialist scholar [and] a work that will surely be read for years to come.”—Journal of the American Academy of Religion/ Jaar
"The scholarship exhibited here is not only superior; it is in many ways staggering. The author's control of an astonishing range of primary and secondary texts from many languages, eras, and disciplines is awe-inspiring. This is a learned, original, and important work."—Robert Goldman, Sanskrit and India Studies, University of California, Berkeley
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Actions in cosmopolitan language as an embodiment of culture and power. Cosmopolitan vs vernacularisation.
評分補標,梵語文學和方言文學研究的奠基之做。雖然有少數論點如梵語和本地語言的對立和文學統治地位,在一些關於剋什米爾早期文學的研究中被推翻和重新討論,總體的學術地位是不可否定的。和Doniger的書一樣,在印度能引起民族主義者鬧事抗議的書一般不會差到哪裏去,由此可推……
評分Actions in cosmopolitan language as an embodiment of culture and power. Cosmopolitan vs vernacularisation.
評分補標,梵語文學和方言文學研究的奠基之做。雖然有少數論點如梵語和本地語言的對立和文學統治地位,在一些關於剋什米爾早期文學的研究中被推翻和重新討論,總體的學術地位是不可否定的。和Doniger的書一樣,在印度能引起民族主義者鬧事抗議的書一般不會差到哪裏去,由此可推……
評分補標,梵語文學和方言文學研究的奠基之做。雖然有少數論點如梵語和本地語言的對立和文學統治地位,在一些關於剋什米爾早期文學的研究中被推翻和重新討論,總體的學術地位是不可否定的。和Doniger的書一樣,在印度能引起民族主義者鬧事抗議的書一般不會差到哪裏去,由此可推……
The Language of the Gods in the World of Men 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載