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020			_a9780231211123 _q(hardback)
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020			_z9780231558754 _q(ebook)
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050	0	0	_aPK2035 _b.W55 2024
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100	1		_aWilliams, Tyler Walker, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aIf All the World Were Paper : _ba History of Writing in Hindi / _cTyler W. Williams.
260			_aNew York : _bColumbia University Press, _c2024.
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264		1	_aNew York : _bColumbia University Press, _c2024.
300			_a308 pages cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aPrologue: Into the archive -- Introduction: Writing a history of writing in the vernacular -- Storytellers and storybooks -- Saints, singers, and songbooks -- Pothīs, pandits, and princes -- The guru's voice and the sacred book -- Conclusion: Building an archive for Hindi.
520			_a"Tyler W. Williams puts questions of materiality, circulation, and performance at the center of his investigation into how literature comes to be defined and produced within a language, specifically, premodern Hindi. Williams proposes new methods for working with written text artifacts and a new approach to theorizing and writing Hindi literary history. He responds to recent developments in quantitative and qualitative approaches to book history - including tools developed within the digital humanities - by applying new as well as traditional techniques of paleography, codicology, and bibliography to handwritten copies of romances, epics, songbooks, treatises, and scriptures. To make the book more accessible and enjoyable for cross-disciplinary readers, Williams bookends (so to speak) each chapter with the story of a specific artifact - an ascetic's notebook, a Mughal general's storybook, a pandit's textbook, or a guru's copy of a sacred scripture - in order to pose and then apply the questions about writing, textuality, and performance that the chapter addresses. By combining distant and close reading that is mindful of the materiality of these manuscripts, Tyler reveals literary, intellectual, and religious practices that we would otherwise be unable to see"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aHindi literature _yTo 1500 _xHistory and criticism _xTheory, etc.
650		0	_aHindi literature _y1500-1800 _xHistory and criticism _xTheory, etc.
650		0	_aHindi literature _xManuscripts.
650		0	_aMaterial culture in literature.
655		7	_aLiterary criticism. _2lcgft
776	0	8	_iOnline version : _aWilliams, Tyler Walker. _tIf All the World Were Paper _dNew York : Columbia University Press, 2024 _z9780231558754 _w(DLC) 2024009701
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