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Philological Empathy and Textual Gains and Losses

Philological Empathy and Textual Gains and Losses • • 1 36 Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 38:1 2018 PHILOLOGICAL EMPATHY portant texts, but also for the broader picture of AND TEXTUAL GAINS AND LOSSES literary history they sketch out in asides here and there, giving the careful reader some sense of the Alexander Beecroft volume and texture of the even larger quantities of text they do not discuss (note, for example, that What use is a collection of essays about the history of Sanskrit poetry to me? The question inevitably many of the introductory sketches for the various sounds rhetorical, although I ask it in a very literal sections of the volume draw attention to its empha- sis on epic works, as opposed to drama or shorter and practical way, from the position of someone who studies ancient Greek and Latin as well as clas- lyric forms). If we are, as the introduction sug- gests, “generations” away from a comprehensive sical Chinese literatures, and who dabbles in the theory and history of world literature, but does not history of Sanskrit literature, this is nonetheless a know Sanskrit. After reading Yigal Bronner, David very helpful start. But (perhaps wisely) few people write http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East Duke University Press

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• • 1 36 Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 38:1 2018 PHILOLOGICAL EMPATHY portant texts, but also for the broader picture of AND TEXTUAL GAINS AND LOSSES literary history they sketch out in asides here and there, giving the careful reader some sense of the Alexander Beecroft volume and texture of the even larger quantities of text they do not discuss (note, for example, that What use is a collection of essays about the history of Sanskrit poetry to me? The question inevitably many of the introductory sketches for the various sounds rhetorical, although I ask it in a very literal sections of the volume draw attention to its empha- sis on epic works, as opposed to drama or shorter and practical way, from the position of someone who studies ancient Greek and Latin as well as clas- lyric forms). If we are, as the introduction sug- gests, “generations” away from a comprehensive sical Chinese literatures, and who dabbles in the theory and history of world literature, but does not history of Sanskrit literature, this is nonetheless a know Sanskrit. After reading Yigal Bronner, David very helpful start. But (perhaps wisely) few people write

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