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100	1		_aEbeling, Sascha.
245	1	0	_aColonizing the Realm of Words : _bThe Transformation of Tamil Literature in Nineteenth-Century South India.
250			_a1st ed.
264		1	_aAlbany : _bState University of New York Press, _c2010.
264		4	_c©2010.
300			_a1 online resource (386 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aSUNY Series in Hindu Studies
505	0		_aIntro -- Colonizing the Realm of Words -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Note on Transliteration, Pronunciation, and Translations of Tamil Primary Sources -- 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 (cıttukkavi) -- 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 T. Mınatcicuntaram 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.
505	8		_aThe 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 Nıtinul (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 -- Appendix 1: The Dating of the Cetupati viralivitututu Revisited -- Appendix 2: Chronological Table of the Earliest Tamil Novels Published Before 1900 -- Appendix 3: Original Tamil Texts Quoted and Annotations -- Glossary -- References -- Index.
520			_aDetails the transformation of Tamil literary culture that came with colonialism and the encounter with Western modernity.
588			_aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590			_aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
655		4	_aElectronic books.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aEbeling, Sascha _tColonizing the Realm of Words _dAlbany : State University of New York Press,c2010 _z9781438431994
797	2		_aProQuest (Firm)
830		0	_aSUNY Series in Hindu Studies
856	4	0	_uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3407187 _zClick to View
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