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Manuscript, Print and Memory

By Wilden, Eva Maria

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Manuscript, Print and Memory

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The ancient Tamil poetic corpus of the Cäam ("The Academy") is a national treasure for Tamilians and a battle-ground for linguists and historians of politics, culture and literature. Going back to oral predecessors probably dating back to the beginning of the first millennium, it has had an extremely rich and variegated history. Collected into anthologies and endowed with literary theories and voluminous commentaries, it became the centre-piece of the Tamil literary canon, associated with the royal court of the Pandya dynasty in Madurai. Its decline began in the late middle ages, and by the late 17th century it had fallen into near oblivion, before being rediscovered at the beginning of the print era. The present study traces the complex historical process of its transmission over some 2000 years, using and documenting a wide range of sources, in particular surviving manuscripts, the early prints, the commentaries of the literary and grammatical traditions and a vast range of later literature that creates a web of inter-textual references and quotations.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
462
Release Date:
2014-10-27
Publication Date:
2014-10-27
Publisher:
De Gruyter
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
3110340895
ISBN13:
9783110340891
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
837 g
Height:
160 cm
Width:
236 cm
Thickness:
31 cm
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