Script, Print, Memory: Re-establishing the Cankam in Tamil Nadu

剧本、印刷品、记忆：在泰米尔纳德邦重建 Cankam

• 批准号: 64755567
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Harunaga Isaacson
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Abteilung für Kultur und Geschichte Indiens und Tibets
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Units
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2007-12-31 至 2010-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/64755567?language=en
• 关键词: Script; Print; Memory; Re; establishing

Aim of this project is following up the reinstatement of the so-called Cankam texts as the oldest and most venerable part of Classical Tamil literature. These texts constitute a group of lyrical anthologies, heroic and erotic in genre, probably going back to the beginning of the Christian era but mostly forgotten by the late 19th century. From widely scattered bundles of neglected palm leaf manuscripts they have turned, within the course of little more than a century, into the main reason why recently Tamil has officially been declared to be the second classical language of India, next to Sanskrit. That complex process of resurrection, reinterpretation and reevaluation, leading from terse palm leaf notation via more or less explicit paper manuscripts into a lengthy series of printed books and a full apparatus of exegetical literature, is not well understood today. The transmissional history of the corpus will be followed up thoughout the different types of manuscript and the early editions. In order to throw light on the earlier development that lead to the gradual oblivion from public consciousness, the testimony of the commentaries from the grammatical tradition, along with certain legendary accounts in other literary traditions will be taken into account. For the modern period their counterparts in the revived oral tradition of the 20th century will have to be considered.

该项目的目的是采取后续行动，恢复所谓的Cankam文本，使其成为泰米尔古典文学中最古老和最受尊敬的部分。这些文本构成了一组抒情选集，英雄和色情的体裁，可能可以追溯到基督教时代的开始，但大多被遗忘的世纪后期。在世纪多一点的时间里，泰米尔语已经从分散在各处的被忽视的棕榈叶手稿变成了最近泰米尔语被正式宣布为印度第二古典语言的主要原因，仅次于梵语。这一复杂的复活、重新解释和重新评价过程，从简洁的棕榈叶记谱法，通过或多或少明确的纸质手稿，到一系列冗长的印刷书籍和完整的训诂文献，今天还没有得到很好的理解。通过对不同类型的手稿和早期版本的梳理，追溯《文集》的传播史。为了阐明导致逐渐被公众意识遗忘的早期发展，我们将考虑来自语法传统的评论的证词，沿着其他文学传统中的某些传奇性的叙述。对于现代时期，他们的对应物在复兴的口头传统的20世纪将不得不考虑。