The Collected Essays of A. K. Ramanujan,9780195668964

The Collected Essays of A. K. Ramanujan

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ISBN13: 9780195668964
ISBN10: 0195668960
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2004-02-12
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary

Poet, translator, and folklorist, A.K. Ramanujan has been recognized as the world's most profound scholar of South Asian language and culture. This book brings together for the first time, thirty essays on literature and culture written by Ramanujan over a period of four decades. It is the product of the collaborative effort of a number of his colleagues and friends. Each section is prefaced by a brief critical introduction and the volume includes notes on each essay as well as a chronology of Ramanujan's books and essays.

Author Biography


A.K. Ramanujan formerly, until his death, William E. Colvin Professor of Linguistics, Chicago University

Table of Contents

General Editor's Preface
VINAY DHARWADKER
vii
Introduction: Two Tributes to A.K. Ramanujan
MILTON B. SINGER
xii
EDWARD C. DIMOCK, JR., AND KRISHNA RAMANUJAN
xiv
I. General Essays on Literature and Culture 1(124)
INTRODUCTION BY WENDY DONIGER
3(122)
1 Where Mirrors Are Windows: Towards an Anthology of Reflections
6(28)
2 Is There an Indian Way of Thinking? An Informal Essay
34(18)
3 Towards an Anthology of City Images
52(21)
4 Food for Thought: Towards an Anthology of Hindu Food-images
73(23)
5 Language and Social Change: The Tamil Example
96(19)
6 Some Thoughts on Non-Western' Classics: With Indian Examples
115(10)
II. Essays on Classical Literatures 125(136)
INTRODUCTION BY VINHY DHARWADKER
127(70)
7 Three Hundred Ramayanas: Five Examples and Three Thoughts on Translation
131(30)
8 Repetition in the Mahabharata
161(23)
9 Classics Lost and Found
184(13)
10 Form in Classical Tamil Poetry
197(22)
11 On Translating a Tamil Poem
219(13)
12 From Classicism to Bhakti (with Norman Cutler)
232(29)
III. Essays on Bhakti and Modern Poetry 261(84)
INTRODUCTION BY JOHN B. CARMAN
263(7)
13 On Women Saints
270(9)
14 Men, Women, and Saints
279(16)
15 The Myths of Bhakti: Images of Siva in Salva Poetry
295(14)
16 Why an Allama Poem Is Not a Riddle: An Anthological Essay
309(15)
17 Varieties of Bhakti
324(8)
18 On Bharati and His Prose Poems
332(13)
IV. Essays on Folklore 345(208)
INTRODUCTION BY STUART BLACKBURN AND ALAN DUNDES
347(5)
19 The Clay Mother-in-law: A South Indian Folktale
352(6)
20 Some Folktales from India
358(11)
21 Banchi: A Kannada Cinderella
369(8)
22 The Indian Oedipus
377(21)
23 The Prince Who Married His Own Left Half
398(14)
24 A Flowering Tree: A Woman's Tale
412(17)
25 Towards a Counter-system: Women's Tales
429(19)
26 Telling Tales
448(15)
27 Tell It to the Walls: On Folktales in Indian Culture
463(22)
28 Two Realms of Kannada Folklore
485(28)
29 On Folk Mythologies and Folk Puranas
513(19)
30 Who Needs Folklore?
532(21)
Notes and References 553(44)
Chronology of Select Books and Essays by A.K. Ramanujan 597(4)
Contributors 601(2)
Copyright Statement 603(4)
Index 607

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