Buch, Englisch, Band 8, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 522 g
Reihe: Gonda Indological Studies
Buch, Englisch, Band 8, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 522 g
Reihe: Gonda Indological Studies
ISBN: 978-90-6980-110-0
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company
This volume focuses on the origin of the early Tamil poetical canon, which constitutes basic poetical themes which are called tinai. The author builds upon an idea of a Russian scholar O. Freidenberg that literary forms ‘originate from anti-literary material rather than their own archetypes’.