Extraordinary Child : Poems from a South Indian Devotional Genre /

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For hundreds of years Tamil poets have been composing devotional texts in which they adopt the voice of a mother and address praises to an extraordinary child. The poems, called pillaittamil (literally "Tamil for a child"), form a major genre of Tamil literature. Since the twelfth century,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Richman, Paula (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [1997]
Colección:SHAPS Library of Translations
Temas:
Devotional poetry, Tamil > Translations into English.
Devotional poetry, Tamil > History and criticism.
Piḷḷaittamil̲.
Tamil language > Grammar.
POETRY / General.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations and Tables
  • Preface
  • I. HOW TO READ A PILLAITTAMIL
  • 1. Extraordinary Child
  • 2. Asking for the Moon, Taming the Tiger
  • II. PILLAITTAMILS FOR READING
  • 3. The Florescence
  • 4. A Temple and a Pillaittamil
  • 5. The Hindu Monastic Milieu
  • 6. A Pillaittamil to Muhammad
  • 7. One Poet's Baby Jesus
  • 8. Poetry of Cultural Nationalism
  • III. REFLECTIONS ON PILLAITTAMILS
  • 9. The Fruits of Reading Pillaittamils
  • Appendix: Descriptions of Pillaittamils in Texts about Poetics
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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