Opening book details…
Can I read Translating Tamil Caṅkam Poetry: Taking Stock on EtoBox?
Translating Tamil Caṅkam Poetry: Taking Stock by Herman Tieken is a Arts and Humanities article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Translating Tamil Caṅkam Poetry: Taking Stock about?
in an "Afterword" in each book.2 His translations are a true pleasure to read and have no doubt attracted many students to the study of Classical Tamil. A sense of the same ambition may be gained from the translations by George L. Hart III,3 Hart and Hank Heifetz4 (henceforth HH), M. Shanmugam Pillai and David E. Ludden,5 and Martha Ann Selby,6 as well as, to a lesser extent, from those by J. V. Chelliah,7 V. Murugan8 or A. Dakshinamurthy9. This does not mean, however, that these translations are accurate. Their authors tend to follow the commentaries, old ones if available, and, if not, modern ones produced by the nineteenth-or twentieth-century editors of the texts. What is striking is the seemingly complete absence on the translators' part of an urge to question the interpretations offered in this secondary material, even in the face of an impossible meaning or ungrammatical construction. As a discipline, Classical Tamil studies appears to lack a philological tradition such as has developed in its neighbour Sanskrit studies. In this respect the translations of the second, literal type, show no improvement. An early example of this type is N. Kandasamy Pillai's translation of the
Who reads Translating Tamil Caṅkam Poetry: Taking Stock?
It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Arts and Humanities.
- Author
- Herman Tieken
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)