World philology

Content: Foreword / Fan-Sen Wang --
Introduction / Sheldon Pollack --
From book to edition: philology in ancient Greece / Franco Montanari --
The bride of Mercury: confessions of a 'pataphilologist / James E.G. Zetzel --
Striving for meaning: a short history of Rabbinic omnisignificance / Yaakov Elman --
Early Arabic philologists: poetry's friends or foes? / Beatrice Gruendler --
What was philology in Sanskrit? / Sheldon Pollack --
Reconciling the classics: two case studies in Song-Yuan exegetical approaches / Michael Lackner --
Humanist philologies: texts, antiquities, and their scholarly transformations in the early modern west / Anthony Grafton --
Mughal philology and Rūmī's mathnavī / Muzaffar Alam --
The rise of "deep reading" in early modern Ottoman scholarly culture / Khaled El-Rouayheb --
Early or modern or late imperial? : the crisis of classical philology in eighteenth-century China / Benjamin A. Elman --
The politics of philology in Japan: ancient texts, language, and Japaneses identity / Susan L. Burns --
"Enthusiasm dwells only in specialization": classical philology and disciplinarity in nineteenth-century Germany / Constanze Güthenke --
The intelligence of philological practice: on the interpretation of Rilke's sonnet "o komm und geh" / Christoph König --
Philology or linguistics? : transcontinental responses / Ku-Ming Kevin Chang.