Tamil Oratory and the Dravidian Aesthetic - Democratic Practice in South India

Democractic Practice in South India.

List of contents

List of Figures and Tables
Preface
Acknowledgments
A Note on Tamil Words
Introductions
1. The Dravidian Proper
2. The King's Red Tongue
3. Walking Utopia
4. On Life, Moonlight, and Jasmine
5. Bhakti and the Limits of Apotheosis
6. Kavitha's Love
7. Speech in the Kali Yugam
Afterword: Dravidian Neoclassicism
Notes
Glossary
References
Index

Product details

• Authors: Bernard Bate, Bernard (Yale University) Bate, Bate Bernard
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.10.2009
• EAN: 9780231147569
• ISBN: 978-0-231-14756-9
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Cultures of History (Hardcover; Cultures of History
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Teaching materials, hand-outs; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Tamil, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Indic Languages, Sociolinguistics, Archaeology, Politics and government, HISTORY / Asia / South / General