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Sheldon Pollock
Researcher at Columbia University
Publications - 55
Citations - 1981
Sheldon Pollock is an academic researcher from Columbia University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Sanskrit & Intellectual history. The author has an hindex of 18, co-authored 54 publications receiving 1854 citations. Previous affiliations of Sheldon Pollock include University of Chicago.
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The Language of the Gods in the World of Men: Sanskrit, Culture, and Power in Premodern India
TL;DR: In this paper, Bhoja's theory of literary language has been studied in the context of the Cosmopolitan and Vernacular in Theory and Practice theory, metatheory, practice, and metapractice.
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Cosmopolitan and Vernacular in History
TL;DR: This article argued that the homogenization of culture today, of which language loss is one aspect, seems without precedent in human history, at least for the scope, speed, and manner in which changes are taking place.
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The Cosmopolitan Vernacular
TL;DR: In Southern Asia, the use of local languages for literary expression in preference to the translocal language that had dominated literary expression for the previous thousand years has been discussed in this article, which constitutes at the level of culture the single most significant transformation in the region between the creation of one cosmopolitan order at the beginning of the first millennium and another and far different one through colonialism and globalization.
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Literary Cultures in History: Reconstructions from South Asia
TL;DR: Literary Cultures in History as discussed by the authors is the first comprehensive history of the rich literary traditions of South Asia, including Hindi, Indian-English, Persian, Sanskrit, Tibetan, and Urdu.
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Future Philology? The Fate of a Soft Science in a Hard World
TL;DR: There are two epigraphs I want to provide by way of preface to my brief account of the fortunes of philology as discussed by the authors, and they are: 1) The first comes from Edmund Husserl (about whom what little I know comes from Hans-Georg Gadamer): “Not always the big bills, gentlemen; small change, small change!” 2) The second comes from Bertolt Brecht: “Erst kommt das Fressen, dann Kommt die Moral” (“chow down first