Tamil Literature

Tamil Literature
Author: M. S. Purnalingam Pillai
Publisher: Asian Educational Services
Total Pages: 492
Release: 1994
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9788120609556

Companion Studies to the History of Tamil Literature

Companion Studies to the History of Tamil Literature
Author: K.V. Zvelebil
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2021-12-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004493026

There is a number of problems connected with the study and teaching of any Oriental literature in general and of Tamil literature specifically which have to date been mostly ignored, although they are indispensable for solid knowledge and correct interpretation and understanding of the literature in question. These include problems of authenticity and authorship, of transmission and tradition, writing tools and materials, of relationship of orality to literacy, of Sanskrit to Tamil, the prehistory of Tamil written literature, the numerous texts that have been lost, scholarly lineages and the rediscovery of ancient Tamil literature etc. The book deals with all these problems as well as with some specific Tamil cultural phenomena such as the concept of "threefold Tamil" or the relationship of literature ('marked') to grammar ('marker'), with the derivation of the term "Tamil" and with the history of Tamil literary historiography. It will be indispensable as an introduction to the study of the more than 2000 years of Tamil literary history. By addressing questions which have thus far been almost completely neglected, it has also decisive impact on the interpretative comprehension of Tamil literature and on the teaching of this very rich heritage of verbal art.

Tamil Literature

Tamil Literature
Author: Kamil Zvelebil
Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Total Pages: 328
Release: 1974
Genre: Tamil literature
ISBN: 9783447015820

Literary History in Tamil

Literary History in Tamil
Author: Kārttikēcu Civattampi
Publisher:
Total Pages: 220
Release: 1986
Genre: Literature and history
ISBN:

Papers presented at a seminar held at the Tamil University, Thanjavur, Aug. 7-8, 1982.

A Primer of Hinduism

A Primer of Hinduism
Author: J. N. Farquhar
Publisher: Asian Educational Services
Total Pages: 230
Release: 1993
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9788120608689

Hinduism, incl. 33 illust.

Literary Cultures in History

Literary Cultures in History
Author: Sheldon Pollock
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 1103
Release: 2003-05-19
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0520228219

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