W D G Cox
Biographic Data
| ID | 10247663 |
|---|---|
| NAME | W D G Cox |
| GIVEN NAMES | W D G |
| FAMILY NAME | Cox |
| SIGNATURE | COX W D G |
| AFFILIATIONS | SOAS University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
India as Theory
This collaborative essay considers how India’s multiple, time-deep, and sophisticated literary cultures can contribute to a canon of global literary theory. Reconstructing premodern Indian literary theories of allusion and translation, we seek to bring new voices into the global discussion. The first part explores a theory of allusion in conversation with a work of Sanskrit literary theory, Ruyyaka’s Treasure of Ornaments. In the second part, the…
Bhoja's Alternate Universe
Towards the end of the eleventh chapter of the Śṛṅgāraprakāśa , there is an aside in gāthā s that surveys the genres that king Bhoja accepts as constituting the complete range of literary form. The passage is long, 14 pages in Raghavan's edition, and gives us some idea of the unusual flavour of the Śṛṅgāraprakāśa as a whole. Much of it is taken over en bloc from the Nāṭyaśāstra 's eighteenth adhyāya , although with considerable reorganisation and…
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Bhoja's Alternate Universe
Towards the end of the eleventh chapter of the Śṛṅgāraprakāśa , there is an aside in gāthā s that surveys the genres that king Bhoja accepts as constituting the complete range of literary form. The passage is long, 14 pages in Raghavan's edition, and gives us some idea of the unusual flavour of the Śṛṅgāraprakāśa as a whole. Much of it is taken over en bloc from the Nāṭyaśāstra 's eighteenth adhyāya , although with considerable reorganisation and…
India as Theory
This collaborative essay considers how India’s multiple, time-deep, and sophisticated literary cultures can contribute to a canon of global literary theory. Reconstructing premodern Indian literary theories of allusion and translation, we seek to bring new voices into the global discussion. The first part explores a theory of allusion in conversation with a work of Sanskrit literary theory, Ruyyaka’s Treasure of Ornaments. In the second part, the…
Art (2 works) · Indian History and Philosophy (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Allusion (1 work) · Aside (1 work) · Chinese history and philosophy (1 work) · Classical Studies and Philology (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work)