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Tables of Contents for The Collected Essays of A. K. Ramanujan
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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