Format:
1 online resource (382 pages)
ISBN:
9781438432014
Series Statement:
SUNY Series in Hindu Studies
Content:
Colonizing the Realm of Words -- Colonizing the Realm of Words -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Note on Transliteration, Pronunciation, and Translations of Tamil Primary Sources -- 1: Introduction -- Colonizing the Realm of Words: Literature and Colonialism -- Tamil Literature in Nineteenth-Century South India -- How to Ignore a Century of Literary Production -- A Century of Cultural Change -- In Search of a Lost Literature: The Chapters of This Book -- 2: Mapping the Universe of the Pulavar: Ti. Minatcicuntaram Pillai (1815-1876) and the Field of Traditional Literary Practices -- Pulavar Education and Pre-Modern Tamil Poetics -- The Pulavars' Genres: Pirapantam Works and Temple Myths (talapuranam) -- Scholarship in the Name of the Lord: Monasteries as Patrons -- When One's Fame Rises to the Heavens: The Pulavars' Economy of Praise -- "Addressing the Assembly of Poets" (avaiyatakkam) -- The Public Premiere (arankerram) -- Occasional Poems (tanippatal) and Epistolary Poems (cıttukkavi) -- The Spoken and the Written Word: Composition, Performance, and Transmission -- Of Gods and Kings: Themes and Contents of Pulavar Literature -- The Uses of Akam Poetics in the Nineteenth Century: The Kulatturkkovai (1853) -- Makavittuvan T. Mınatcicuntaram Pillai: A Poets' Poet -- 3: Pulavars and Potentates: Structures of Literary Patronage at the Zamindars' Courts and Beyond -- Literature and Rituals of Courtly Representation -- The System of Literary Patronage at the Zamindars' Courts -- A "Who Is Who" of Nineteenth-Century Royal Patrons and Their Poets -- Thanjavur -- Pudukkottai -- Ramnad and Sivagangai -- Smaller Zamindaris -- Of Beauty and Benevolence: Themes of Courtly Literature -- Kama's Arrows Whizzing Past the King: Royal Panegyrics and Eroticism in the Cetupati viralivitututu.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781438431994
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781438431994
Language:
English
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