This course will introduce students to classical forms of the Tamil language, through a graduated study of poetry. During this semester, we will read the Purattinaiyiyal, the chapter on poetic convention from the classical grammar Tolkappiyam. Students are required to have a minimum of two years of formal Tamil study (or equivalent)
Founded as a graduate program in 1904 and joining with the undergraduate Literature Concentration in 2007, Harvard’s Department of Comparative Literature operates at the crossroads of multilingualism, literary study, and media history.
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