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100	1		_aEbeling, Sascha. _922586
245	1	0	_aColonizing the realm of words: the transformation of Tamil literature in nineteenth-century South India / _cSascha Ebeling.
260			_aAlbany : _bState University of New York Press, _cc2010.
300			_axxiii, 355 p. : _bill. ; _c24 cm.
500			_aBased on the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universität zu Köln, 2005.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0	0	_g1. _tIntroduction -- _tColonizing the Realm of Words: Literature and Colonialism -- _tTamil Literature in Nineteenth-Century South India -- _tHow to Ignore a Century of Literary Production -- _tA Century of Cultural Change -- _tIn Search of a Lost Literature: The Chapters of This Book -- _g2. _tMapping the Universe of the Pulavar: Ti. Minatcicuntaram Pillai (1815-1876) and the Field of Traditional Literary Practices -- _tPulavar Education and Pre-Modern Tamil Poetics -- _tThe Pulavars' Genres: Pirapantam Works and Temple Myths (talapuranam) -- _tScholarship in the Name of the Lord: Monasteries as Patrons -- _tWhen One's Fame Rises to the Heavens: The Pulavars' Economy of Praise -- _t"Addressing the Assembly of Poets" (avaiyatakkam) -- _tThe Public Premiere (arankerram) -- _tOccasional Poems (tanippatal) and Epistolary Poems (cittukkavi) -- _tThe Spoken and the Written Word: Composition, Performance, and Transmission -- _tOf Gods and Kings: Themes and Contents of Pulavar Literature -- _tThe Uses of Akam Poetics in the Nineteenth Century: The Kulatturkkovai (1853) -- _tMakavittuvan Ti. Minatcicuntaram Pillai: A Poets' Poet -- _g3. _tPulavars and Potentates: Structures of Literary Patronage at the Zamindars' Courts and Beyond -- _tLiterature and Rituals of Courtly Representation -- _tThe System of Literary Patronage at the Zamindars' Courts -- _tA "Who Is Who" of Nineteenth-Century Royal Patrons and Their Poets -- _tThanjavur -- _tPudukkottai -- _tRamnad and Sivagangai -- _tSmaller Zamindaris -- _tOf Beauty and Benevolence: Themes of Courtly Literature -- _tKama's Arrows Whizzing Past the King: Royal Panegyrics and Eroticism in the Cetupati viralivitututu -- _tThe Pulavar in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Changes in Patronage -- _g4. _tToward the Modern Tamil Author: The Colonial Critique of the "Vernacular" and Mayuram Vetanayakam Pillai (1826-1889) as an Agent of Change -- _tMayuram Vetanayakam Pillai: A Biographical Reconstruction -- _tWriting for "the moral improvement of the Natives of India": The Nitinul (1859) -- _tLaw, Women's Education and Devotional Poetry: Vetanayakam Pillai's Other Writings -- _g5. _tThe Emergence of the Tamil Novel -- _tThe History of Prathapa Mudaliar (1879): An "approximation to a novel"? -- _tThe History of Suguna Sundari (1887): A "longwinded moral tale, weary and unprofitable"? -- _tThe Fatal Rumor or The History of Kamalambal (1893-1895): "Vedanta through fiction"? -- _tFurther Comparisons -- _g6. _tEpilogue -- _g1. _tThe Dating of the Cetupati viralivitututu Revisited -- _g2. _tChronological Table of the Earliest Tamil Novels Published Before 1900 -- _g3. _tOriginal Tamil Texts Quoted and Annotations.
650		0	_aTamil literature _xHistory and criticism. _922587
650		0	_aLiterature and society _zIndia, South _xHistory _922588
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