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Tamil: A Biography

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Description for Tamil: A Biography Hardback. Spoken by eighty million people, Tamil is one of the great world languages, and one of the few ancient languages that survives as a mother tongue. David Shulman presents a comprehensive cultural history of Tamil, emphasizing how its speakers and poets have understood the unique features of their language over its long history. Num Pages: 386 pages. BIC Classification: 2BRT; CBX; CFB; CFF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 168 x 243 x 34. Weight in Grams: 738.
Spoken by eighty million people in South Asia and a diaspora that stretches across the globe, Tamil is one of the great world languages, and one of the few ancient languages that survives as a mother tongue for so many speakers. David Shulman presents a comprehensive cultural history of Tamil--language, literature, and civilization--emphasizing how Tamil speakers and poets have understood the unique features of their language over its long history. Impetuous, musical, whimsical, in constant flux, Tamil is a living entity, and this is its biography. Two stories animate Shulman's narrative. The first concerns the evolution of ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
386
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780674059924
SKU
V9780674059924
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About David Shulman
David Shulman is Renee Lang Professor of Humanistic Studies at Hebrew University.

Reviews for Tamil: A Biography
Shulman is a priceless advocate of the language and its many masterpieces.
Steve Donoghue Open Letters Monthly (09/27/2016) David Shulman has raised an impressive monument to Tamil, written with erudition and wit. This 'biography' deals with much more than language
literature, culture, geography, history, all combine in praise of beauty and love.
Tzvetan Todorov, National Center for Scientific Research, Paris [Shulman] offers ... Read more

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