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Deep rivers : Selected Writings on Tamil literature / François Gros [and three others].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gros, François, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Language and languages.
- Linguistics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (519 pages)
- Other Title:
- Deep rivers
- Place of Publication:
- Pondichéry : Institut Français de Pondichéry, 2009.
- Summary:
- Ce livre rassemble des essais importants de François Gros dont la plupart sont traduits et publiés en anglais pour la première fois. Ils vont de la littérature classique (Cankam, Bhakti) à la littérature tamoule contemporaine, romans et nouvelles. Les nombreuses références à la tradition indianiste française depuis le 18ème siècle seront une découverte pour beaucoup de lecteurs non francophones. Si l'auteur insiste sur le devoir de prendre en compte l'apport original de l'érudition tamoule elle-même, il invite aussi celle-ci à s'ouvrir aux autres langues de l'inde et du monde et à intégrer à l'étude des textes l'histoire et ses disciplines essentielles, épigraphie, numismatique, archéologie, histoire de l'art. This book brings together for the first time in English all the major essays written by François Gros on Tamil literature. An impressive range of topics is covered here from studies of Caṅkam literature and devotional texts of the Tamil Bhakti traditions to contemporary Tamil novels and short stories. Many of the essays include an overview of French Indological work over past three centuries made available to the English speaking scholarly world for the first time here. While the author urges European and American scholars of Tamil history and culture to take the intellectual discourses of Tamil scholarship seriously, he insists at the same time that Tamil not be ghettoized but should rather be read alongside texts in other South Indian languages, with reference to the evidence of epigraphy, numismatics, archaeology and art history.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Institut Français de Pondichéry, viewed June 29, 2023).
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