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Articles by Alexander Beecroft
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The Sanskrit Ecumene
in NLR 72, November-December 2011, pp. 153-160
Subjects: History and Historiography , India
Alexander Beecroft on Sheldon Pollock, The Language of the Gods in the World of Men. South Asia’s shift from holy to vernacular tongues measured against European parallels.
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World Literature Without a Hyphen
in NLR 54, November-December 2008, pp. 87-100
Subjects: History and Historiography , Literature
Literary studies with global ambitions are on the rise. But do they truly embrace the literatures of the world? Alexander Beecroft offers a typology of historically distinct kinds of writing that reaches further into the past and wider across human languages than any hitherto.
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