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(0)Charles Hallisey
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. What are the pleasures of reading translations of South Asian literature, and what does it take to enjoy a translated text? This volume provides opportunities to explore such questions by bringing together a whole set of new translations by David Shulman, noted scholar of South Asia. The translated selections come from a variety of Indian languages, genres, and...
2) Variants and Variance in Classical Textual Cultures: Errors, Innovations, Proliferation, Reception?
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
Given the limited durability of most textual supports, texts must be reproduced if they are to survive. And given the proliferation over time of users, practices, and places which need to have access to the texts that are important for cultural institutions, this is particularly true for authoritative texts. But the reproduction of texts by traditional means - either orally or by hand - inevitably produces variations. These variations can arise because...