TAMIL NATION LIBRARY:
Literature
"...probably the most significant contribution
(of the Tamils) is
that of Tamil literature, which still remains to be
"discovered" and enjoyed by the non Tamilians and adopted as an essential and
remarkable part of universal heritage. If it is true that liberal education should
"liberate" by demonstrating the cultural values and norms foreign to us, by
revealing the relativity of our own values, then the "discovery" and enjoyment
of Tamil literature, and even its teaching (as a critical part of the teaching of Indian
literatures) should find its place in the systems of Western training and instruction in
the humanities..."
Kamil
Zvelebil in The Smile of
Murugan : On Tamil Literature of South India
[see also
Tamil Language & Literature
]
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+Asia Books South (Editor) - International Encyclopaedia of Indian
Literature, Vol. 2: Tamil / Hardcover / January 1987
*Asher, R.E., and R. Radhakrishnan.
A Tamil Prose Reader: Selections from
Contemporary Tamil Prose with Notes and Glossary. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge,
England. (1971.)
*Cathy
Spagnoli, Paramasivam Samanna - Jasmine and
Coconuts : South Indian Tales (World Folklore Series)
/ Hardcover /Published: February 1999
Casie Chetty, Simon :
The Tamil Plutarch, A Summary Account
of the Lives of the Poets and Poetesses of Southern India and Ceylon, First Published in
1859, Second Revised Edition published by Asian Educational Services,1982
Chelliah, J. V. - Pattuppattu. English & Tamil Ten Tamil idylls,
Translated into English verse by [2d ed.] Tirunelveli: South India Saiva Siddhanta Works
Pub. Society, 1962 370p; 22cm
*Cutler, Norman & Richman Paula - A Gift of Tamil
: Translations of Tamil Literature Published 1992
Cuppiramaniyan, A. Ve,.- Literary genres in Tamil: a supplement to a Descriptive
Catalogue of Palm-leaf Manuscripts in Tamil,1st ed Madras, India: Institute of Asian
Studies, 1993, 493p; 24cm
* Danielou, Alain (translator)
- Shilappadikaram
: The Ankle Bracelet - Ilango Adigal
*Danielou, Alan
(translator) - Manimekhalai
(The Dancer With the Magic Bowl) Paperback, July 1989
"Almost nothing is known of India, its daily life and institutions,
in the troubled years of the first centuries of the Christian era. The Manimekhalai, one
of the masterpieces of Tamil literature, gives us in the form of didactic novel full of
freshness and poetry, a delightful insight into the ways of life, the pleasures, beliefs
and philosophical concepts of
a refined civilisation...
Tamil is the main pre-Aryan language still surviving today.... The Manimekhalai calls into
question many of our received ideas concerning ancient India as well as our interpretation
of the sources of its present day religion and philosophy. In its clear accounts of the
philosophical concepts of the time, the Manimekhalai presents the various currents of pre
Aryan thought.... which gradually influenced the Vedic Aryan world... The society in which
the action of the Manimekhalai takes has little to do with the Aryanised civilisation of
the north which we know from Sanskrit texts...The Greek geographer, Ptolemy in the second
century mentions the main ports of southern India and, in particular, Kaaveris Emporium,
the Kaveripum-pattinam (or Puhar) of the Manimekhalai .."
*Hart, George L .The Poems of Ancient Tamil : Their
Milieu and their Sanskrit
Counterparts. Berkely: University of California Press, 1975.308pages.
*Hart, George L - Poets of the
Tamil Anthologies: Ancient Poems of Love [selected and translated by]
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979,213p
*Hart, George L - The relation
between Tamil and classical Sanskrit literature
Hart, Kausalya. Tamil Madhu: from Sangam to Bharathy.
Center for South Asia Studies, T-9 Building, Room100, University of California, Berkeley,
CA 94720
* Herman Jensen -
A Classified
Collection of Tamil Proverbs / Paperback /
First Published: 1897, Reprinted 2000 by Routledge, London
* Herman Jensen -
A Classical Collection of Tamil Proverbs (Trubner's Oriental Series)
(Hardcover - July 27, 2001)
* Herman Jensen -
Tamil Proverbs (Hardcover - August 1, 2002)
*Institute of Asian Studies - Encyclopaedia of
Tamil Literature (In 10 Volumes): Introductory Articles / Hardcover / Published
1990
Kailasapathy, K. Tamil Heroic
Poetry .Oxford University Press, 1968. 282 pages.
**Kalki R Krishnamurthy -
Best of Kalki, Penguin Books Australia Ltd.
Paperback
" Synopsis - Twelve memorable stories
by the legendary wordsmith of modern Tamil
'Kalki' R. Krishnamurthy,
one of the pioneering giants of the Tamil press in the
tumultuous times of the nationalist movement, was a versatile
and prolific writer, inscribing the urgencies of his time in his
fiction. This collection brings together the best of Kalki's
short stories, which contain some of the most colourful and
enduring characters and themes of Tamil popular fiction of the
1930s and '40s. There is in these stories the heady urgency of
the freedom struggle, the piquant humour of the parodied Tamil
gothic and devastating social satire. In her sensitive
translations, Gowri Ramnarayan has succeeded in capturing the
nuances of the gently mordant wit that made Kalki's stories the
highlight of the magazines they were originally published in,
creating for themselves a dedicated following that flourishes
undiminished to this day. Coinciding with the centenary of
Kalki's birth, this volume is a well-deserved tribute to a
writer whose breadth of vision and genius imagined and served a
new India.
*Kalki R Krishnamurthy - Parthiban Kanavu MacMillan India Ltd. Hardcover
[also at
amazon.co.uk ]
*Kersenboom, Saskia -Word, Sound,
Image : The Life of the Text (Explorations in Anthropology) Hardcover / Published 1995
Konraiventhan Illustrated, World Tamil Women Organisation, USA
*Lakshmi, C.S.
Face Behind the Mask:Women in Tamil Literature, Vikas Publishing House
*John Lazarus -
A Dictionary of Tamil Proverbs (Hardcover - August 1991)
*Manuel, Dr. (Ms.) Indra. -
Literary Theories in Tamil (with special
reference to Tolkaapiyam), ISDN:81-85452-06-7, Pondicherry Institute of Linguistics and
Culture, 19 Chinna Subbaraaya Pillai Street, Pondicherry - 605 001 (India) Contact: Sunder
Manuel keltvm@md2.vsnl.net.in
Marr, J.R. The Eight Anthologies. Madras: Institute of Asian Studies, 1985.550
pages.
Muilwijk, M. The Divine Kura Tribe Kuravanci and other
Prabandhams
Mutthirulandi, Prof Raja
- Ilakkiyathil Manitha Urimaigal (Human Rights in Literature), published
by Soorya Pathippakam, pathippakam@yahoo.com
PO Box No 33, Tiruchirapalli 620001, Tamil Nadu India,
Pages:133+ Year of Publication 2000 [suggested by Akam
Aruvukam, from Tamil Nadu]
Publishers Note: The book is perhaps
the first and pioneering one initiating a new approach in the domains of Human
Rights and Literature, approaching Literature from Human Rights perspectives. It
would be a highly useful resoure in the field of Human Rights Education.It would
also be a very valuable addition to the resources on Human Rights available in
the regional language (TAMIL)
*Nadarajah, Devapoopathy -
Love in Sanskrit and Tamil Literature: A
Study of Characters and Nature, Hardcover / Published: January 1995
*Nakkiranar, et al The Study of
Stolen Love : A Translation of Kalaviyal Enra Iraiyanar Akapporul With Commentary Published
1997
*Parthasarathy, R -
The Cilappatikaram of Ilanko Atikal : An Epic of South India
(Translations from the Asian Classics) Published 1992
* Percival
Tamil Proverbs : With the English Translation Containing More Than Six Thousand
Proverbs
*
Murugan Perumal
Seasons of the Palm, Tara Publishers, 2004
Shortlisted for the
Kiriyama Prize. Translated from the Tamil original Koolla
Madari by V.Geeta. Seasons of the Palm focuses on the arduous
lives of a group of lovingly drawn child characters with
colorful names like "Shortie," "Tallfellow," "Matchbox," and "Stumpleg."
Born into a dalit caste in Tamil Nadu, the children work as goat
herders and face not only the universal difficulties of
adolescence but at the same time heartbreaking hunger and
dispossession. Seasons of the Palm is the first Tamil novel to
have earned international recognition. Novelist Perumal Murugan
is a college teacher by profession. He teaches Tamil language
and literature at a state college in western Tamil Nadu, India.
Murugan grew up in a harsh landscape, amidst hardworking
peasants. His fiction recreates the everyday brutality of caste
society in relentless detail while hinting at the possibilities
of joy and comradeship that are yet possible.
*Pope, G.U. (Trans.) - Naladiyar of
Four Hundred Quatrains in Tamil First Published Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1893
*Pope, G.U. - Sacred Kural of
Tiruvalauva Nayanar English Translation [see also G.U.Pope at Tamil
Language & Literature]
*Purnalingam Pillai, M.S. -
Tamil Literature 2nd Edition, 1994
Rajagopalachari, C. - Ramayana [English translation by Ramnath Goenka]
18th ed Bombay: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, 1978 320p
*Rajam, Dr.V.S. - A
Reference Grammar of Classical Tamil Poetry (150 B.C.--Pre-Fifth/Sixth Century A.D.)
Published by the Amerian Philosophical Society, Philadelphia.1992
Ramachandran, T.N.- Krishnanjali: an English rendering of Mahakavi
Bharati's Kannan Paattu with translation, notes and index - Thanjavur: TRN
Memorial Library, 1980
*Ramanujam, A.K. - Poems of Love
and War from the Eight Anthologies and the Ten Songs of Classical Tamil
(Trans.) New York: Columbia University Press,1985. 329 pages.
*Ramanujan, A.K. -The Interior
Landscape : Love Poems from a Classical Tamil Anthology / Paperback /
Published: August 1994
*Richman, Paula -Extraordinary Child: Poems from a South Indian Devotional Genre
/ Paperback / Published: December 1997
*Roy, K.K. - Subramanya
Bharati [see also Subramanya Bharathi -
Some Reflections by Nadesan Satyendra]
Shanmuganathan,
Varatha
A book of Tamil Songs
Sivagnanam, M.P. History of the growth of Tamil
during the Indian War of Independence - English
Translation by K.Chellappan
Somasundaram Pillai, J.M. Two Thousand Years of Tamil Literature,The South India
Saiva Siddhanta Works Publishing Society (Tinnevely) Ltd.,Madras, 1959
*Subramanyam Ka Naa -
Tamil Short Stories (edited by with a critical introduction)
- New Delhi: Vikas, 1980
202p
Sujatha's Writings - E-Books "..In this Site all the works of the
eminent Tamil Writer Sujatha are made available classified into short
stories, novels, plays, and essays. The text is in Unicode and
searchable with keywords."
*Takanobu Takahashi - Tamil Love
Poetry and Poetics (Brill's Indological Library, Vol 9) Published 1995
Varadarajan, Mu: A History of Tamil Literature 375pp - Translated
from the Tamil by E.Sa.Visswanathan, Sahitya Akademi,
Madras1988
Vaiyapuri Pillai, S. History of Tamil Language and Literature, New Century Book House,
Madras, 1956
Veluppillai, A. tamiz ilakijattil kAlamum karuttum - An Outline of Tamil Literary
Thought. Third reprint. Madras. Paari Puthakappannai,1985. 214 pages.
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