TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ebeling,Sascha
TI  - Colonizing the realm of words: the transformation of Tamil literature in nineteenth-century South India
SN  - 9781438431994 (hardcover : alk. paper)
U1  - 894.81109004 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Albany
PB  - State University of New York Press
KW  - Tamil literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Literature and society
KW  - India, South
KW  - History
N1  - Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universität zu Köln, 2005; Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 (cittukkavi) --; 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 Ti. Minatcicuntaram 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 --; The Pulavar in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Changes in Patronage --; 4; Toward the Modern Tamil Author: The Colonial Critique of the "Vernacular" and Mayuram Vetanayakam Pillai (1826-1889) as an Agent of Change --; Mayuram Vetanayakam Pillai: A Biographical Reconstruction --; Writing for "the moral improvement of the Natives of India": The Nitinul (1859) --; Law, Women's Education and Devotional Poetry: Vetanayakam Pillai's Other Writings --; 5; The Emergence of the Tamil Novel --; The History of Prathapa Mudaliar (1879): An "approximation to a novel"? --; The History of Suguna Sundari (1887): A "longwinded moral tale, weary and unprofitable"? --; The Fatal Rumor or The History of Kamalambal (1893-1895): "Vedanta through fiction"? --; Further Comparisons --; 6; Epilogue --; 1; The Dating of the Cetupati viralivitututu Revisited --; 2; Chronological Table of the Earliest Tamil Novels Published Before 1900 --; 3; Original Tamil Texts Quoted and Annotations
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