The Relation Between Tamil and Classical Sanskrit Literature
Author | : George L. Hart |
Publisher | : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Comparative literature |
ISBN | : 9783447017855 |
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Author | : George L. Hart |
Publisher | : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Comparative literature |
ISBN | : 9783447017855 |
Author | : Devapoopathy Nadarajah |
Publisher | : Motilal Banarsidass Publishing House |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9788120812154 |
Author | : Whitney Cox |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Comparative literature |
ISBN | : 9788184701944 |
Author | : Sascha Ebeling |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2010-09-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1438432011 |
A true tour de force, this book documents the transformation of one Indian literature, Tamil, under the impact of colonialism and Western modernity. While Tamil is a living language, it is also India's second oldest classical language next to Sanskrit, and has a literary history that goes back over two thousand years. On the basis of extensive archival research, Sascha Ebeling tackles a host of issues pertinent to Tamil elite literary production and consumption during the nineteenth century. These include the functioning and decline of traditional systems in which poet-scholars were patronized by religious institutions, landowners, and local kings; the anatomy of changes in textual practices, genres, styles, poetics, themes, tastes, and audiences; and the role of literature in the politics of social reform, gender, and incipient nationalism. The work concludes with a discussion of the most striking literary development of the time—the emergence of the Tamil novel.
Author | : Devaneya Pavanar |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2017-09-12 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781976310638 |
'Tamil' is one of those words whose origin and root-meaning are wrapped up in mystery. All that we can say at present without any fear of contradiction is, that it is a pure Tamil word being current as the only name of the language of the Tamils, from the days that preceded the First Tamil Academy established at Thenmadurai on the river pahruli in the submerged continent. After some of the Vedic Aryans migrated to the South, Tamil got the descriptive name 'Tenmoli' lit. 'the southern language', in contradistinction to the Vedic language or Sanskrit which was called 'Vadamoli', lit. 'the northern language'. The word 'Tamil' or 'Tamilan' successively changed into 'Dramila', 'Dramila', 'Dramida' and 'Dravida' in North India and at first denoted only the Tamil language, as all the other Dravidian dialects separated themselves from Tamil or came into prominence one by one only after the dawn of the Christian era. That is why Sanskrit and Tamil came to be known as Vadamoi and Tenmoli respectively. This distinction could have arisen only when there were two languages standing side by side, one in the North and the other in the South, both coming in contact with each other. The Buddhist Tamil Academy which flourished in the 5th century at Madurai went by the name of 'Travida Sangam'.
Author | : David Shulman |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2016-09-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674974654 |
Spoken by eighty million people, Tamil is one of the great world languages, and one of the few ancient languages that survives as a mother tongue. David Shulman presents a comprehensive cultural history of Tamil, emphasizing how its speakers and poets have understood the unique features of their language over its long history.
Author | : Pamela Lothspeich |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 661 |
Release | : 2024-01-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1000912167 |
Reconceptualizing the epic genre and opening it up to a world of storytelling, The Epic World makes a timely and bold intervention toward understanding the human propensity to aestheticize and normalize mass deployments of power and violence. The collection broadly considers three kinds of epic literature: conventional celebratory tales of conquest that glorify heroism, especially male heroism; anti-epics or stories of conquest from the perspectives of the dispossessed, the oppressed, the despised, and the murdered; and heroic stories utilized for imperialist or nationalist purposes. The Epic World illustrates global patterns of epic storytelling, such as the durability of stories tied to religious traditions and/or to peoples who have largely "stayed put"; the tendency to reimagine and retell stories in new ways over centuries; and the imbrication of epic storytelling and forms of colonialism and imperialism, especially those perpetuated and glorified by Euro-Americans over the past 500 years, resulting in unspeakable and immeasurable harms to humans, other living beings, and the planet Earth. The Epic World is a go-to volume for anyone interested in epic literature in a global framework. Engaging with powerful stories and ways of knowing beyond those of the predominantly white Global North, this field-shifting volume exposes the false premises of "Western civilization" and "Classics," and brings new questions and perspectives to epic studies.
Author | : K.V. Zvelebil |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2021-12-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9004492984 |
Author | : Monika Saxena |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2018-09-03 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0429826397 |
This book analyses the diverse ways in which women have been represented in the Purāṇic traditions in ancient India – the virtuous wife, mother, daughter, widow, and prostitute – against the socio-religious milieu around CE 300–1000. Purāṇas (lit. ancient narratives) are brahmanical texts that largely fall under the category of socio-religious literature which were more broad-based and inclusive, unlike the Smṛtis, which were accessible mainly to the upper sections of society. In locating, identifying, and commenting on the multiplicity of the images and depictions of women’s roles in Purāṇic traditions, the author highlights their lives and experiences over time, both within and outside the traditional confines of the domestic sphere. With a focus on five Mahāpurāṇas that deal extensively with the social matrix Viṣṇu, Mārkaṇḍeya Matsya, Agni, and Bhāgavata Purāṇas, the book explores the question of gender and agency in early India and shows how such identities were recast, invented, shaped, constructed, replicated, stereotyped, and sometimes reversed through narratives. Further, it traces social consequences and contemporary relevance of such representations in marriage, adultery, ritual, devotion, worship, fasts, and pilgrimage. This volume will be of interest to researchers and scholars in women and gender studies, ancient Indian history, religion, sociology, literature, and South Asian studies, as also the informed general reader.
Author | : Prabha Rani |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2022-12-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9354355390 |
Kannagi and Silappatikaram are important parts of the cultural landscape of Tamil Nadu-the story has been told in many genres of literature and continues to be told. Every narrative, however, carries the imprint of the times it was released in. Kannagi through the Ages: From the Epic to the Dravidian Movement aims to understand the ways in which representations of Kannagi in the epic Silappatikaram differ in every new narrative. Looking at the portrayals of Kannagi in plays, commentaries and folk narratives, the book examines how representations of gender and culture have evolved over time. Focusing on the interrelationships between a text and a society as well as between society and the way it moulds the category of 'woman' at different times through symbols and icon, the author analyses the social, cultural and political processes that contributed to the emergence of Kannagi as an icon of Tamil culture and epitome of Tamil womanhood.