The contents of this book fall under two sections. Section-I consists of three exhaustive chapters, one in English and two in Tamil, dealing with all aspects of the Art of Translation and also providing an in-depth analysis of the problems of translating texts from Tamil into English in general and poetry in particular. These chapters form a strong theoretical basis for Section-II. Section-II contains select poems of five representative poets of the modern era
The twenty research articles in this anthology were originally presented as papers at National and International Conferences and later published in various journals and edited anthologies. Updated and fine-tuned now, the articles represent several kinds of literatures with one comparative analysis between ancient Greek and Tamil literature, one on postcolonial feminist fictions in Canadian literature, one on disability studies in American literature, two on th
Here is a compelling collection of twenty short stories packed with human emotions of different hues. Each story is neatly packaged in a flawless narration leavened with spontaneous humour and authentic poignancy. The circumstances are down-to-earth, and we could locate ourselves effortlessly amidst the people in these gripping stories and easily get identified with one or the other, and watch along with them certain acts of the complex human drama unfolding d
Stylistics is a branch of Applied Linguistics and deals with the various levels of language – graphological/phonological, lexical, syntactic, and semantic/discourse. In this book, each level is lucidly explained with relevant theoretical concepts, and they are practically applied to two poems as model-exercises. With the evidences explicitly available and insinuations implicitly conveyed in the text, each poem is insightfully examined through a linguistics l