Poems of Love and War

From the Eight Anthologies and the Ten Long Poems of Classical Tamil
Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-0-19-568089-8
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 142 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 405 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ramanujan, A. K.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Sammlungen, Anthologien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Indische & Dravidische Literatur

Über Autor(innen)

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.