Tibetan Literary Genres, Texts, and Text Types
Subtitle: From Genre Classification to Transformation
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2015
Language: eng; tib
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9789004300996
Subjects: Tibetan literature; Buddhist literature; Tibetan language
Description: The papers in this book deepen our knowledge of Tibetan literature. They not only examine particular Tibetan genres and texts (pre-modern and contemporary), but also genre classification, transformation, and reception. Despite previous contributions, the systematic analysis of Tibetan textual genres is still a relatively undeveloped field, especially when compared with the sophisticated examinations of other literary traditions. 0The book is divided into four parts: textual typologies, blurred genre boundaries, specific texts and text types, and genres in transition to modernity. The introduction discusses previous classificatory approaches and concepts of textual linguistics. The text classes that receive individual attention can be summarised as songs and poetry, offering-ritual, hagiography, encyclopaedia, lexicographical texts, trickster narratives, and modern literature.