Literary Cultures in History
Subtitle: Reconstructions from South Asia
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: May 19, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 1105
ISBN-13: 9780520228214
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Literature - Classics / Criticism; History and criticism; Literary Criticism; South Asia; Sociology; Middle East; Literature and society; Asia - India & South Asia; Asian - General; General; History / Asia; History; Indic literature; Politics and literature
First sentence: In contrast to most other literary cultures examined in this book, Sanskrit literature has a long and deep tradition of scholarship.