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090729s2009 ii b 001 0 eng |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
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2009346469 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9788125036937 |
| 025 ## - OVERSEAS ACQUISITION NUMBER |
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I-E-2009-346469; 28-91 |
| 037 ## - SOURCE OF ACQUISITION |
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Library of Congress -- New Delhi Overseas Office |
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DLC |
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DLC |
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| 050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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891.1 DEV |
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891.1 DEV |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Devy, G. N., |
| Dates associated with a name |
1950- |
| 240 10 - UNIFORM TITLE |
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| Uniform title |
Works. |
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Selections. |
| Date of a work |
2009 |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
G N Devy reader / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
with a foreword by Rajeswari Sunder Rajan. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
New Delhi : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
Orient Blackswan, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2009. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
1 v. (various pagings) ; |
| Dimensions |
22 cm. Hard Bound.; |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
Gratis $40.61 |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
After amnesia -- <br/>"Of many heroes" --<br/>The being of bhasha --<br/>Countering violence. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
A dominated culture learns not just to be like the culture that dominates it, but also attempts to conceal its own antecedents. In such cultural encounters, amnesia plays a major role in defining the self-perception of cultures. G. N. Devy s After Amnesia, first published in 1992, offers an incisive analysis of contemporary literary scholarship in Indian languages by demonstrating how modern Indian languages learnt to forget that literary criticism had been rejected by them during the post-Sanskrit medieval centuries, and how they have posed before themselves a false choice of intellectual practices rooted in culturally distant Western or Sanskritic traditions. After Amnesia proposes that what has come to be seen as a crisis in Indian literary criticism can be understood if a relevant historiography is formulated. Of Many Heroes , first published in 1997, is an attempt to formulate such a historiography. If After Amnesia is an essay on literary criticism, Of Many Heroes is a historiography of literary historiography in India. It presents a wide spectrum of survey of texts on literary history, beginning with the fourth century Bhartrihari s Vakyapadiya to the seminal texts produced during the twentieth century. The Reader brings together two other new essays by G. N. Devy The Being of Bhasha and Countering Violence. These philosophical essays discuss the significance of dialects and vanishing languages in the making of civilization, the place of silence and insanity in the making of meaning, and of language itself in the future of knowledge. After closely analyzing the sociological and psychological roots of violence, the author argues that the increasing violence in modern societies and the loss of languages in an increasingly intolerant and aggressive world need to be seen as closely related aspects of the cultural impact of historical processes germinating in colonialism and globalization hostile to cultural plurality. The four essays together present a complete theory of knowledge in postcolonial times. They present a plea for a radical reorientation to the question of education, knowledge, expression and interpretation of linguistic creative. They are, perhaps, the most challenging and unorthodox thesis on epistemic and hermeneutical issues central to modern Indian culture.<br/><br/>This Reader is a true summa, bringing together Devy s ground-breaking work in the field of contemporary Indian thought. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Indic literature |
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20th century |
| General subdivision |
History and criticism. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Criticism |
| Geographic subdivision |
India |
| General subdivision |
History |
| Chronological subdivision |
20th century. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Literature and history |
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India |
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History |
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20th century. |
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Dewey Decimal Classification |
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Books |
