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Manuscript, print and memory : relics of the Cankam in Tamilnadu /
The ancient Tamil poetic corpus of the Cankam is at the same time a national treasure and a common battle ground for linguists and historians alike. Going back to oral predecessors from about the early first millennium, it became part of a canon, slowly fell into near oblivion and was finally redisc...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Alemán |
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Berlin [Germany] :
Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG,
2014.
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| Colección: | Studies in manuscript cultures ;
Volume 3. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface; List of Abbreviation; Contents; I Introduction; 1 Sources, Methods and Aims; 2 The Corpus; 2.1 Its Constitution; 2.2 Its Fate; 3 Research History and Programme; 3.1 The Tamil Renaissance; 3.2 Tamil Manuscripts; II The Manuscripts; 1 Surviving Caṅkam Manuscripts: Descriptive Catalogue; 1.1 Libraries of Origin; 1.2 Manuscript list; 1.3 Manuscript Catalogue; 2 Manuscripts Reported in Catalogues and Editions; 2.1 Catalogues; 2.2 Manuscript Descriptions in the Editions; 3 Colophons and Library Information; 3.1 List of Available Colophons.
- 3.2 Scribal Colophons and/or Information on Title Pages4 Summary: Age and Distribution of the Remaining Witnesses; III Transmissional History; 1 The Invocation Stanzas (katạvul ̣vāḻttu); 1.1 Kuṟuntokai 1; 1.2 The Series by Pāratam Pātịya Peruntēvaṉātr; 2 Traditional Colophons; 2.1 Etṭụttokai; 2.2 Pattupātṭụ; 2.3 Information from the Traditional Colophons; 3 Mnemonic Stanzas; 3.1 Etṭụtokai (14 Verses); 3.2 Pattupātṭụ (19 Plus 12 Verses); 4 The Caṅkam Legends; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 The Preamble to Nakkīraṉ and Its Late Metrical Echo; 4.3 Academicians Infiltrating the Saiva Canon
- 4.4 Siva's Sports in Maturai4.5 The Tiruvalḷụvar Branch; 4.6 Legend Merging into "History"; 5 Reception in the Grammatical Tradition; 5.1 The Legend Reflected in the Commentaries; 5.2 The Corpus Reflected in the Commentaries; Appendix 1: Tables of Quotations from the Poetological Commentaries; Appendix 2: The Distribution of Quoted Poems in Poetological Commentaries; Appendix 3: The Distribution of Quoted Poems in Grammatical Commentaries; 5.3 Glimpses from Discussions of Literature; Coda: The Maturaic Cokkanātar Arulịya Tamiḻ Vitụtūtu; 6 Summary: The Rise and Fall of a Canon
- IV The Editing Process1 Notes on the Development of the Tamil Script; 2 The Path from Palm-Leaves to Paper to Printed Editions; 3 The Early Caṅkam Editions; 4 Case Studies: The Kuṟuntokai, the Naṟṟinại and the Akanāṉūṟu; 5 Later Caṅkam Editions; Appendix: Manuscripts Containing Exegetical Material; 6 Summary: Decipherment, Standardisation, Popularisation; V Conclusion: The Restitution of a Canon; Literature; List of Acknowledgements for the Illustrations; Index