Overview

The collected essays in this book are the result of a series of workshops held at the University of Cagliari in Italy; this work charts the evolution of key concepts on signless signification of traditional Indian grammar and deals with powerful mechanisms of meaning extension, including rituals and speculative patterns. This collection brings an interdisciplinary approach to the examination of possible relationships between different cultural and linguistic systems of signification.

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Author:   Tiziana Pontillo ,  Maria Piera Candotti
Publisher:   Anthem Press
Imprint:   Anthem Press
Volume:   1
Dimensions:   Width: 15.30cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.590kg
ISBN:  

9780857283153

ISBN 10:   0857283154
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   01 April 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Preface - Giuliano Boccali; PART I: TECHNICAL AND SPECULATIVE REFLECTIONS ON SIGNLESS SIGNIFICATION: 1. Much Ado about Nothing: Unsystematic Notes on ""sunya"" - Alberto Pelissero; 2. When One Thing Applies More than Once: ""tantra"" and ""prasanga"" in Srautasutra, Mimamsa and Grammar - Elisa Freschi, Tiziana Pontillo; 3. The Earlier Paninian Tradition on the Imperceptible Sign - Maria Piera Candotti, Tiziana Pontillo; 4. The Infinite Possibilities of Life: Interpretations of the ""sunyata"" in the Thinking of Daisaku Ikeda - Paolo Corda; PART II: REFLECTIONS ON SIGNLESS SIGNIFICATION IN LITERATURE AND ARTS: 5. Presences and Absences in Indian Visual Arts: Ideologies and Events - Cinzia Pieruccini; 6. Rethinking the Question of Images (Aniconism vs. Iconism) in the Indian History of Art - Mimma Congedo, Paola M. Rossi; 7. Denotation ""in absentia"" in Literary Language: The Case of Aristophanic Comedy - Patrizia Mureddu; 8. The Birth of the Buddha in the Early Buddhist Art Schools - Ruben Fais; 9. Untranslatable Denotations: Notes on Music Meaning Through Cultures - Prema Bhat, Paolo Bravi, Ignazio Macchiarella; Summary of Papers"

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Tiziana Pontillo is a teacher and research fellow in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Cagliari, Italy. Maria Piera Candotti is privat-docent of Sanskrit at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.

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