A. K. Ramanujan

A. K.

Folklore Pervades Childhoods, Families And Communities And Is The Language Of The Illiterate. Even In Large, Modern Cities, Folklore Proverbs, Lullabies, Folk Medicine, Folktales Is Only A Suburb Away, A Cousin Or A Grandmother Away. Wherever People Live, Folklore Grows. India Is A Country Of Many Languages, Religions, Sects And Cultures. It Is A Land Of Many Myths And Countless Stories. Translated From Twenty-Two Indian Languages, These One Hundred And Ten Tales Cover Most Of The Regions Of India And Represent Favourite Narratives From The Subcontinent. A.K. Ramanujan S Outstanding Selection Is An Indispensable Guide To The Richness And Vitality Of India S Ageless Oral Folklore Tradition.

Folktales From India (Modern Classic)

Collects fifty-one poems from authors from the Kuruntokai, which dates back to the first three centuries A.D.

Classical Tamil Love Poems

The Interior Landscape

The Collected Poems of A.K. Ramanujan

The Vacanas Or Free-Verse Lyrics Written By Four Major Saints Of The Great Bhakti Protest Movement Which Originated In The Tenth Century Ad. Composed In Kannada, A Dravidian Language Of South India, The Poems Are Lyrical Expressions Of Love For The God Siva. They Mirror The Urge To Bypass Tradition And Ritual, To Concentrate On The Subject Rather Than The Object Of Worship, And To Express Kinship With All Living Things In Moving Terms. Passionate, Personal, Fiercely Monotheistic, These Free Verses Possess An Appeal, Which Is Timeless And Universal.

Speaking of Śiva

Poet, translator, folklorist A. K. Ramanujan has been recognised as the world's most profound scholar of South Asian language and culture. In this volume, A. K. Ramanujan translates old Tamil poems selected from anthologies compiled around two millennia ago. This edition contains a new preface by Molly Daniels-Ramanujan.

From the Eight Anthologies and the Ten Long Poems of Classical Tamil

Poems of Love and War

Love Poems from a Classical Tamil Anthology (Oxford India Paperbacks)

Alan Dundes

Stuart H. Blackburn

This book of oral tales from the south Indian region of Kannada represents the culmination of a lifetime of research by A. K. Ramanujan, one of the most revered scholars and writers of his time. The result of over three decades' labor, this long-awaited collection makes available for the first time a wealth of folktales from a region that has not yet been adequately represented in world literature. Ramanujan's skill as a translator, his graceful writing style, and his profound love and understanding of the subject enrich the tales that he collected, translated, and interpreted. With a written literature recorded from about 800 A.D., Kannada is rich in mythology, devotional and secular poetry, and more recently novels and plays. Ramanujan, born in Mysore in 1929, had an intimate knowledge of the language. In the 1950s, when working as a college lecturer, he began collecting these tales from everyone he could--servants, aunts, schoolteachers, children, carpenters, tailors. In 1970 he began translating and interpreting the tales, a project that absorbed him for the next three decades. When Ramanujan died in 1993, the translations were complete and he had written notes for about half of the tales. With its unsentimental sympathies, its laughter, and its delightfully vivid sense of detail, the collection stands as a significant and moving monument to Ramanujan's memory as a scholar and writer.

A.K. Ramanujan ; Edited with a Preface by Stuart Blackburn and Alan Dundes

A Flowering Tree and Other Oral Tales from India

This is a book of poetry by A.K. Ramanujan.

Second Sight

The Collected Essays of A.K. Ramanujan

The Collected Essays of A. K. Ramanujan

Keith Harrison

Molly Daniels-Ramanujan

Brings Poems And Essays That Could Not Be Published In The Literature Of A.K. Ramanuja Who Speaks About Exile, The Politics Of Language, Being A Bilingual Poet And A Trilingual Translatior. Divided Under Three Headings-Uncollected Poems- Two Interviews-Uncollected Prose-Index Of Title- Index Of First Lines.

Uncollected Poems and Prose

Vinay Dharwadker

This anthology, the first significant work of its kind, contains some of the finest Indian poetry written in the 20th century. It brings together 125 poets in English and English translation from 14 Indian languages, providing an ideal overview of the major figures, forms, and movements inIndian poetry in the last 100 years.The poets featured range from Rabindranath Tagore and Subramania Sharati to Anuradha Mahapatra, Saleem Peeradina, and Vikram Seth. `Subaltern' poets such as Narayan Surve and Namdeo Dhasal are included, as well as three generations of women poets, from Balamani Indira Sant to Revathi Devi and GaganGill.Besides displaying the diversity of modern Indian poetry, the anthology reveals its coherent patterns and developments by arranging the poets and poems in eight thematic sections which explore many of the central concerns of our times: love and desire, kinship and domesticity; the imagination andthe creative process; the play of knowledge and understanding; the interdependence of human culture and natural environment.

The Oxford Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry

Features seventy tales of horror, comedy, allegory, mystery, gods, beasts, beggars, ogres, and dervishes

A Selection of Oral Tales from Twenty-two Languages

Folktales from India

Fred W a K Clothey Ramamnujan

Fred W. Clothey

The series Religion and Society (RS) contributes to the exploration of religions as social systems- both in Western and non-Western societies; in particular, it examines religions in their differentiation from, and intersection with, other cultural systems, such as art, economy, law and politics. Due attention is given to paradigmatic case or comparative studies that exhibit a clear theoretical orientation with the empirical and historical data of religion and such aspects of religion as ritual, the religious imagination, constructions of tradition, iconography, or media. In addition, the formation of religious communities, their construction of identity, and their relation to society and the wider public are key issues of this series.

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