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The collected essays of A.K. Ramanujan / A K Ramanujan

By: Ramanujan, A. KContributor(s): Ramanujan, A. KMaterial type: Text

TextPublisher number: :Brijwasi Book Distributors | :H-87, Lalita Park laxmi Nagar Delhi 110092Series: Oxford India paperbacksPublication details: New Delhi ; Oxford University Press, 2004Description: xviii, 638 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmISBN: 9780195668964Subject(s): Literature | East Indo-European & Celtic literatures | Indic literature -- History and criticism | Indic literatureDDC classification: 891.4 RAM

Contents:

General Editor's Preface / Vinay Dharwadker -- Introduction: Two Tributes to A. K. Ramanujan / Milton B. Singer, Edward C. Dimock, Jr. and Krishna Ramanujan -- I. General Essays on Literature and Culture -- Introduction / Wendy Doniger -- 1. Where Mirrors Are Windows: Towards and Anthology of Reflections -- 2. Is There an Indian Way of Thinking? An Informal Essay -- 3. Towards an Anthology of City Images -- 4. Food for Thought: Towards an Anthology of Hindu Food-images -- 5. Language and Social Change: The Tamil Example -- 6. Some Thoughts on 'Non-Western' Classics: With Indian Examples -- II. Essays on Classical Literatures -- Introduction / Vinay Dharwadker -- 7. Three Hundred Ramayanas: Five Examples and Three Thoughts on Translation -- 8. Repetition in the Mahabharata -- 9. Classics Lost and Found -- 10. Form in Classical Tamil Poetry -- 11. On Translating a Tamil Poem -- 12. From Classicism to Bhakti / A. K. Ramanujan and Norman Cutler -- III. Essays on Bhakti and Modern Poetry -- Introduction / John B. Carman -- 13. On Women Saints -- 14. Men, Women, and Saints -- 15. The Myths of Bhakti: Images of Siva in Saiva Poetry -- 16. Why an Allama Poem Is Not a Riddle: An Anthological Essay -- 17. Varieties of Bhakti -- 18. On Bharati and His Prose Poems -- IV. Essays on Folklore -- Introduction / Stuart Blackburn and Alan Dundes -- 19. The Clay Mother-in-law: A South Indian Folktale -- 20. Some Folktales from India -- 21. Hanchi: A Kannada Cinderella -- 22. The Indian Oedipus -- 23. The Prince Who Married His Own Left Half -- 24. A Flowering Tree: A Woman's Tale -- 25. Towards a Counter-system: Women's Tales -- 26. Telling Tales -- 27. Tell It to the Walls: On Folktales in Indian Culture -- 28. Two Realms of Kannada Folklore -- 29. On Folk Mythologies and Folk Puranas -- 30. Who Needs Folklore? -- Chronology of Select Books and Essays / A. K. Ramanujan.

Summary: Chiefly on Indic literature.

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General Editor's Preface / Vinay Dharwadker --
Introduction: Two Tributes to A. K. Ramanujan / Milton B. Singer, Edward C. Dimock, Jr. and Krishna Ramanujan --
I. General Essays on Literature and Culture --
Introduction / Wendy Doniger --
1. Where Mirrors Are Windows: Towards and Anthology of Reflections --
2. Is There an Indian Way of Thinking? An Informal Essay --
3. Towards an Anthology of City Images --
4. Food for Thought: Towards an Anthology of Hindu Food-images --
5. Language and Social Change: The Tamil Example --
6. Some Thoughts on 'Non-Western' Classics: With Indian Examples --
II. Essays on Classical Literatures --
Introduction / Vinay Dharwadker --
7. Three Hundred Ramayanas: Five Examples and Three Thoughts on Translation --
8. Repetition in the Mahabharata --
9. Classics Lost and Found --
10. Form in Classical Tamil Poetry --
11. On Translating a Tamil Poem --
12. From Classicism to Bhakti / A. K. Ramanujan and Norman Cutler --
III. Essays on Bhakti and Modern Poetry --
Introduction / John B. Carman --
13. On Women Saints --
14. Men, Women, and Saints --
15. The Myths of Bhakti: Images of Siva in Saiva Poetry --
16. Why an Allama Poem Is Not a Riddle: An Anthological Essay --
17. Varieties of Bhakti --
18. On Bharati and His Prose Poems --
IV. Essays on Folklore --
Introduction / Stuart Blackburn and Alan Dundes --
19. The Clay Mother-in-law: A South Indian Folktale --
20. Some Folktales from India --
21. Hanchi: A Kannada Cinderella --
22. The Indian Oedipus --
23. The Prince Who Married His Own Left Half --
24. A Flowering Tree: A Woman's Tale --
25. Towards a Counter-system: Women's Tales --
26. Telling Tales --
27. Tell It to the Walls: On Folktales in Indian Culture --
28. Two Realms of Kannada Folklore --
29. On Folk Mythologies and Folk Puranas --
30. Who Needs Folklore? --
Chronology of Select Books and Essays / A. K. Ramanujan.

Chiefly on Indic literature.

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