Companion Studies to the History of Tamil Literature

Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Avant-propos: The term \"tamiḻ\"
Preface
Bibliographies and Catalogues of Tamil Material
Introduction
CHAPTER 1: Periodisation of the development of Tamil literature
CHAPTER 2: Prehistory and protohistory of Tamil literate civilization; Oral and written traditions-the case of Tamil; The problems of transmission
CHAPTER 3: Problems of integrity, authenticity, attribution and authorship; Interpolations, additions, revisions, forgeries; Lost literature
CHAPTER 4: Problems of dating; Absolute and relative chronology
CHAPTER 5: The dichotomy of norm (ilakkaṇam) and application (ilakkiyam); The dichotomy of mārga and deśí; The dichotomy of centamiḻ and koṭuntamiḻ; The dichotomy of taṉi and toṭar; The concept of muttamiḻ
CHAPTER 6: The rediscovery of ancient Tamil literature
Appendix 1: List of lost works
Appendix 2: The Tamil conception of \"book\"
Appendix 3: The case of Akattiyam; Tamil and Sanskrit; the Academies
Scholarly lineages of 19th and 20th centuries
Blueprint for a history of Tamil literature
Illustrations
Index
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