Wilke / Moebus Sound and Communication

An Aesthetic Cultural History of Sanskrit Hinduism
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-3-11-024003-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 1135 Seiten, mit 1 CD-ROM

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In Hindu India both orality and sonality have enjoyed great cultural significance since earliest times. They have a distinct influence on how people approach texts. The importance of sound and its perception has led to rites, models of cosmic order, and abstract formulas. Sound serves both to stimulate religious feelings and to give them a sensory form. Starting from the perception and interpretation of sound, the authors chart an unorthodox cultural history of India, turning their attention to an important, but often neglected aspect of daily religious life. They provide a stimulating contribution to the study of cultural systems of perception that also adds new aspects to the debate on orality and literality.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wilke, Annette

Moebus, Oliver

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Indische & Dravidische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Hinduismus Hinduismus: Heilige Texte & Traditionsliteratur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Hinduism as a Culture of Sound – The Veda as a Basic Paradigm for Sacred Language and Sacred Sound – Composition and Decomposition: Post-Vedic Sacred Literature and Formation of Analytical Studies – The Diversity of Sonic Representation Systems – Pluralism and the Search for Orientation: Acrobats of Language in Poetics, Hermeneutics and Metaphysics – Performance and Sensuality: The Sound Universes of Tantra and Devotionalism – Continuities, Breaks, Re-codification: The Merging of Traditions in the “Sound-Brahman” (Nada-Brahman) and Their Modern Forms in Bollywood – The Logic of Scripture and the Logic of Sound: Concluding Remarks on Media, Hierarchies of Perception and Religious Aesthetics

Über Autor(innen)

Wilke, Annette
Annette Wilke and Oliver Moebus, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany.

Moebus, Oliver
Annette Wilke and Oliver Moebus, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany.

Annette Wilke and Oliver Moebus, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany.