The Poetics of Grammar and the Metaphysics of Sound and Sign - Couverture rigide

 
9789004158108: The Poetics of Grammar and the Metaphysics of Sound and Sign

Synopsis

Recognizing the seemingly universal notion of a grammatical cosmos, this volume addresses the question of how grammar and culturally encoded sounds and signs provide cognitive maps of reality in a variety of great civilizations.

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À propos de l?auteur

Sergio La Porta, Ph.D. (2001) in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University, is a Lecturer in Armenian Studies and Comparative Religion at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His recent publications include Two Anonymous Sets of Scholia on the Heavenly Hierarchy of Dionysius the Areopagite (CSCO, Peeters, 2007). David Shulman, Ph.D. (1976) in Tamil and Sanskrit from SOAS, University of London, is the Renee Lang Professor of Humanistic Studies and scholar of South Indian philology and culture at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His latest book with V. Narayana Rao is God on the Hill: Temple Poems from Tirupati (OUP, 2006).

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