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Manuscript, Print and Memory - Relics of the Cankam in Tamilnadu (Hardcover, Digital original)
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Manuscript, Print and Memory - Relics of the Cankam in Tamilnadu (Hardcover, Digital original)
Series: Studies in Manuscript Cultures
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The ancient Tamil poetic corpus of the Canam ("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.
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