[PDF] A Flowering Tree And Other Oral Tales From India eBook

Author : A. K. Ramanujan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 29,53 MB
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520203990

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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.

Author : A. K. Ramanujan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 24,16 MB
Release : 2023-11-10
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ISBN : 0520311450

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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. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1997.

Author : A. K. Ramanujan
Publisher :
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,5 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Kanarese (Indic people)
ISBN : 9780670878437

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As a young college lecturer in the 1950s, Ramanujan collected tales from servants, aunts, schoolteachers, childrenýanyone who would tell him a storyýand translated and interpreted them over the next three decades. This volume includes seventy-seven tales, with Ramanujanýs notes that help place the stories in their cultural and literary contexts.

Author : A. K. Ramanujan
Publisher :
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 25,49 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Kanarese (Indic people)
ISBN : 9780140272987

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As A Young College Lecturer In The 1950S, Ramanujan Collected Tales From Servants, Aunts, Schoolteachers, Children-Anyone Who Would Tell Him A Story-And Translated And Interpreted Them Over The Next Three Decades. This Volume Includes Seventy-Seven Tales, With Ramanujan S Notes That Help Place The Stories In Their Cultural And Literary Contexts.

Author : ATTIPATE KRISHNASWAMI. RAMANUJAN
Publisher : Penguin Premium Classic
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,20 MB
Release : 2023-12-06
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ISBN : 9780670098125

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A.K. Ramanujan's outstanding selection is an indispensable guide to the richness and vitality of India's ageless oral folklore tradition.

Author : A. of the Santal mission Campbell
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 36,59 MB
Release : 2022-07-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Santal Folk Tales" by A. of the Santal mission Campbell. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Soso Tham
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 44,18 MB
Release : 2018-04-25
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1783744715

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Soso Tham (1873–1940), the acknowledged poet laureate of the Khasis of northeastern India, was one of the first writers to give written poetic form to the rich oral tradition of his people. Poet of landscape, myth and memory, Soso Tham paid rich and poignant tribute to his tribe in his masterpiece The Old Days of the Khasis. Janet Hujon’s vibrant new translation presents the English reader with Tham’s long poem, which keeps a rich cultural tradition of the Khasi people alive through its retelling of old narratives and acts as a cultural signpost for their literary identity. This book is essential reading for anyone with an interest in Indian literature and culture and in the interplay between oral traditions and written literary forms. This edition includes: • English translation • Critical apparatus • Embedded audio recordings of the original text

Author : Sumana Roy
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 14,28 MB
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Nature
ISBN : 030026268X

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An exquisite, lovingly crafted meditation on plants, trees, and our place in the natural world, in the tradition of Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass and Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek “I was tired of speed. I wanted to live tree time.” So writes Sumana Roy at the start of How I Became a Tree, her captivating, adventurous, and self-reflective vision of what it means to be human in the natural world. Drawn to trees’ wisdom, their nonviolent way of being, their ability to cope with loneliness and pain, Roy movingly explores the lessons that writers, painters, photographers, scientists, and spiritual figures have gleaned through their engagement with trees—from Rabindranath Tagore to Tomas Tranströmer, Ovid to Octavio Paz, William Shakespeare to Margaret Atwood. Her stunning meditations on forests, plant life, time, self, and the exhaustion of being human evoke the spacious, relaxed rhythms of the trees themselves. Hailed upon its original publication in India as “a love song to plants and trees” and “an ode toall that is unnoticed, ill, neglected, and yet resilient,” How I Became a Tree blends literary history, theology, philosophy, botany, and more, and ultimately prompts readers to slow down and to imagine a reenchanted world in which humans live more like trees.