History of a Polyglossic Literary Culture: On the Decline of the History of Hindi Literature

One of many Western categories which prove to be unsuitable to South Asian evidence is the history of literature (meant as the history of a single language). With reference to the Hindi literary traditions, the logic of this concept created huge gaps. One of those (16th to 18th century) has been fi...

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Autor principal:	Piotr Borek
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Publicado:	Ksiegarnia Akademicka Publishing 2021
Materias:	rīti bhāṣā Braj Hindi literary culture sociolinguistics Indo-Iranian languages and literature PK1-9601 Languages and literature of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania PL1-8844
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:d69ca498c8b14d5690c8165d99fcf5392021-11-27T12:53:13ZHistory of a Polyglossic Literary Culture: On the Decline of the History of Hindi Literature10.12797/CIS.15.2013.15.131732-09172449-8696https://doaj.org/article/d69ca498c8b14d5690c8165d99fcf5392021-08-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.akademicka.pl/cis/article/view/1554https://doaj.org/toc/1732-0917https://doaj.org/toc/2449-8696 One of many Western categories which prove to be unsuitable to South Asian evidence is the history of literature (meant as the history of a single language). With reference to the Hindi literary traditions, the logic of this concept created huge gaps. One of those (16th to 18th century) has been filled with the history of literatures written in genetically close but different languages. The problem is being solved by the most recent scholarship with the new concept of literary cultures which should replace the old category of the histories of one-language literatures. The extension and adaptation of the sociolinguistic concept of diglossia may provide a theoretical justification and a tool for such reform to be definitively undertaken and accepted by the scholars. This preliminary suggestion is offered after a selective sketch of the problems imposed by the linguistic variety in the area discussed. Piotr BorekKsiegarnia Akademicka PublishingarticlerītibhāṣāBrajHindiliterary culturesociolinguisticsIndo-Iranian languages and literaturePK1-9601Languages and literature of Eastern Asia, Africa, OceaniaPL1-8844ENCracow Indological Studies, Vol 15 (2021)
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description	One of many Western categories which prove to be unsuitable to South Asian evidence is the history of literature (meant as the history of a single language). With reference to the Hindi literary traditions, the logic of this concept created huge gaps. One of those (16th to 18th century) has been filled with the history of literatures written in genetically close but different languages. The problem is being solved by the most recent scholarship with the new concept of literary cultures which should replace the old category of the histories of one-language literatures. The extension and adaptation of the sociolinguistic concept of diglossia may provide a theoretical justification and a tool for such reform to be definitively undertaken and accepted by the scholars. This preliminary suggestion is offered after a selective sketch of the problems imposed by the linguistic variety in the area discussed.
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History of a Polyglossic Literary Culture: On the Decline of the History of Hindi Literature

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