LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 19:12 December 2019
ISSN 1930-2940

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Deep-Rooted Literary Relations between
English and Tamil Novels

Dr. S. Chelliah, M.A., Ph.D., D.Litt.

Abstract

This paper is an attempt to expose the profound literary relations being deep-rooted between English and Tamil novels. This paper explores the good relationship between English and Tamil literatures by extracting various instances from the works of both the literatures. This paper does explore the relationship between both the literatures. It also presents the artistic renderings made mutually among these literatures. Thus, by going through the ideal works and translator works in these literatures, this paper estimates the bond between English and Tamil literatures.

Keywords: Literary Relations, English and Tamil Novels Translations, culture, autobiographical, society, imitation, epistolary.

The relationship between English and Tamil literatures is more than a century old and the contact between the two literatures has been direct, continuous, complex and all-embracing. English has influenced the entire gamut of Tamil Prose, poetry, short story and novel. This contact inspired the native scholars to take the novel writing. English and European scholars wrote literary works in Tamil. English and European scholars wrote literary works in Tamil. In some respects, it has been a two-way traffic. Distinguished western scholars like Fr. Robert De Nobili (1577-1656), Fr. Beschi (1680-1747), C.T.E. Rhenius (1790-1838) and G.U. Pope (1820-1907) became devoted students of Tamil language and literature. They are said to have done yeoman service to Tamil by writing Prose and poetical works in Tamil. More than this, G.U. Pope translated many Tamil Classics like the Kural and Tiruvasagam into English. Prof. T.P. Meenakshisundaram calls Fr. Beschi “the father of modern prose and the modern short story” (P 175) in Tamil.

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Dr. S. Chelliah, M.A., Ph.D., D.Litt.
Professor, Head & Chairperson
School of English & Foreign Languages
Department of English & Comparative Literature
Madurai Kamaraj University
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Tamil Nadu, India
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