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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
International Standard Book Number |
9781438431994 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
International Standard Book Number |
1438431996 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
Classification number |
894.81109004 |
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EBE/C |
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
Personal name |
Ebeling, Sascha. |
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
Title |
Colonizing the realm of words: the transformation of Tamil literature in nineteenth-century South India / |
Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Sascha Ebeling. |
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
Albany : |
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
State University of New York Press, |
Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
c2010. |
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
Extent |
xxiii, 355 p. : |
Other physical details |
ill. ; |
Dimensions |
24 cm. |
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
General note |
Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universität zu Köln, 2005. |
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
Bibliography, etc |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
505 00 - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
Miscellaneous information |
1. |
Title |
Introduction -- |
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Colonizing the Realm of Words: Literature and Colonialism -- |
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Tamil Literature in Nineteenth-Century South India -- |
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How to Ignore a Century of Literary Production -- |
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A Century of Cultural Change -- |
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In Search of a Lost Literature: The Chapters of This Book -- |
Miscellaneous information |
2. |
Title |
Mapping the Universe of the Pulavar: Ti. Minatcicuntaram Pillai (1815-1876) and the Field of Traditional Literary Practices -- |
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Pulavar Education and Pre-Modern Tamil Poetics -- |
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The Pulavars' Genres: Pirapantam Works and Temple Myths (talapuranam) -- |
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Scholarship in the Name of the Lord: Monasteries as Patrons -- |
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When One's Fame Rises to the Heavens: The Pulavars' Economy of Praise -- |
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"Addressing the Assembly of Poets" (avaiyatakkam) -- |
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The Public Premiere (arankerram) -- |
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Occasional Poems (tanippatal) and Epistolary Poems (cittukkavi) -- |
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The Spoken and the Written Word: Composition, Performance, and Transmission -- |
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Of Gods and Kings: Themes and Contents of Pulavar Literature -- |
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The Uses of Akam Poetics in the Nineteenth Century: The Kulatturkkovai (1853) -- |
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Makavittuvan Ti. Minatcicuntaram Pillai: A Poets' Poet -- |
Miscellaneous information |
3. |
Title |
Pulavars and Potentates: Structures of Literary Patronage at the Zamindars' Courts and Beyond -- |
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Literature and Rituals of Courtly Representation -- |
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The System of Literary Patronage at the Zamindars' Courts -- |
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A "Who Is Who" of Nineteenth-Century Royal Patrons and Their Poets -- |
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Thanjavur -- |
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Pudukkottai -- |
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Ramnad and Sivagangai -- |
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Smaller Zamindaris -- |
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Of Beauty and Benevolence: Themes of Courtly Literature -- |
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Kama's Arrows Whizzing Past the King: Royal Panegyrics and Eroticism in the Cetupati viralivitututu -- |
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The Pulavar in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Changes in Patronage -- |
Miscellaneous information |
4. |
Title |
Toward the Modern Tamil Author: The Colonial Critique of the "Vernacular" and Mayuram Vetanayakam Pillai (1826-1889) as an Agent of Change -- |
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Mayuram Vetanayakam Pillai: A Biographical Reconstruction -- |
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Writing for "the moral improvement of the Natives of India": The Nitinul (1859) -- |
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Law, Women's Education and Devotional Poetry: Vetanayakam Pillai's Other Writings -- |
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5. |
Title |
The Emergence of the Tamil Novel -- |
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The History of Prathapa Mudaliar (1879): An "approximation to a novel"? -- |
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The History of Suguna Sundari (1887): A "longwinded moral tale, weary and unprofitable"? -- |
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The Fatal Rumor or The History of Kamalambal (1893-1895): "Vedanta through fiction"? -- |
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Further Comparisons -- |
Miscellaneous information |
6. |
Title |
Epilogue -- |
Miscellaneous information |
1. |
Title |
The Dating of the Cetupati viralivitututu Revisited -- |
Miscellaneous information |
2. |
Title |
Chronological Table of the Earliest Tamil Novels Published Before 1900 -- |
Miscellaneous information |
3. |
Title |
Original Tamil Texts Quoted and Annotations. |
650 #0 - SUBJECT |
Keyword |
Tamil literature |
General subdivision |
History and criticism. |
650 #0 - SUBJECT |
Keyword |
Literature and society |
Geographic subdivision |
India, South |
General subdivision |
History |
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
Koha item type |
General Books |