Poems of Love and War: From the Eight Anthologies and the Ten Long Poems of Classical Tamil - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0231157355 ISBN 13 : 9780231157353

Editeur : Columbia University Press, 2011

Synopsis

Translations based on: Ettuttokai; Pattuppattu; and Tolkappiyam.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

A. K. Ramanujan (1929-1993) was a scholar, poet, novelist, and playwright who wrote in English and Kannada. Until his death, he served as the William E. Colvin Professor in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations and on the Committee of Social Thought at the University of Chicago and was the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship.David Shulman is the Renee Lang Professor of Humanistic Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and one of the world's foremost authorities on the languages of India.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Columbia University Press
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0231157355
• ISBN 13: 9780231157353
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 329