The Implied Imperative: Poetry as Ethics in the Proverbs of the Tirukkuṟaḷ

The Tirukkuṟaḷ is a text of Tamil proverbs that circulates widely in South India today. While the first two sections of the text contain practical pieces of ethical advice, the third section contains an extended love poem. This variation in content has resulted in a dichotomous view of the text in w...

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Main Author: Smith, Jason W. 1982- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2022
In: Journal of religious ethics
Year: 2022, Volume: 50, Issue: 1, Pages: 123-145
Further subjects:B Esthetics
B Literature
B Poetry
B Proverbs
B South Asia
B India
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