Arthur Dudney

India in the Persian World of Letters

Ḳhān-I Ārzū Among the Eighteenth-Century Philologists

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Produktbeschreibung

This book traces the development of philology (the study of literary language) in Persian tradition in India, focusing socio-political ramifications, and provides an intellectual biography of Arzu, an innovative and influential eighteenth-century scholar and poet in India.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 217mm x 145mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 549g
• ISBN-13: 9780192857415
• ISBN-10: 019285741X
• Artikelnr.: 66146502

Autorenporträt

Arthur Dudney is Director of Cultural Programmes at the Arcadia Fund. He was formerly a Leverhulme Early Career fellow at the University of Cambridge and a Mellon Fellow at the University of Oxford. He received a PhD in Middle Eastern, South Asian & African Studies from Columbia University and an AB in Classics from Princeton University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments * Abbreviations and Conventions * Introduction * 1: A Literate Life: Placing
rz
and his Works in their Social Context * 2:
rz
's Fruitful Theory of Language * 3: Innovation and Poetic Authority in Eighteenth-Century Persian * 4: Dictionaries Delimiting Literary Language * 5: Building a Vernacular Culture on the Ruins of Persian * 6: How Language Actually Works: Contrasting Europe and the Non-West * Conclusion * References