A Sinhala study of classical Greek literary criticism, written for readers approaching the Greek critical tradition in their own language. The text is entirely in Sinhala, which international buyers should note before ordering: there is no English translation of the contents here.
The author, Kamani Jayasekara, is Senior Professor in the Department of Western Classical Culture and Christian Culture at the University of Kelaniya. Her academic work has been concerned with Greek and Roman literature and thought, and much of it has been written in Sinhala rather than English — a body of work that gives Sinhala readers direct access to material usually encountered through English-language scholarship. This title appears in her university profile under the English name Classical Greek Literary Criticism, published in Colombo by S. Godage.
It sits alongside a group of related Sinhala studies by the same author, among them:
- Greek and Roman Literary Criticism
- Introduction to Greek Philosophy
- The Greek Dramatist: Aristophanes
- Terence and Roman Comedy
- Ideas on Literary Criticism of the Greeks
Readers who already have any of those will recognise the territory this book works in. For students of Western classical culture at Sri Lankan universities, and for Sinhala readers with an interest in the origins of literary theory, it belongs to a small shelf of academic writing on Greek and Roman subjects produced in Sinhala by a specialist in the field.
Published by Godage International Publishers, an established Colombo house issuing academic and general titles in Sinhala and English.
- Author: Prof. Kamani Jayasekara
- Publisher: Godage International Publishers
- Language: Sinhala
- Pages: 160
- ISBN: 9789553022530
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