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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781438431994 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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| International Standard Book Number |
1438431996 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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CUS |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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894.81109004 |
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EBE/C |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Ebeling,Sascha. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| 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) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
Albany : |
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State University of New York Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
c2010. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xxiii, 355 p. : |
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ill. ; |
| Dimensions |
24 cm. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universität zu Köln, 2005. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 505 00 - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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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 -- |
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2. |
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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 -- |
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3. |
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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 -- |
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4. |
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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. |
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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 -- |
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6. |
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Epilogue -- |
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The Dating of the Cetupati viralivitututu Revisited -- |
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2. |
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Chronological Table of the Earliest Tamil Novels Published Before 1900 -- |
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3. |
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Original Tamil Texts Quoted and Annotations. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT |
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| Keyword |
Tamil literature |
| General subdivision |
History and criticism. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT |
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| Keyword |
Literature and society |
| Geographic subdivision |
India, South |
| General subdivision |
History |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Koha item type |
General Books |
