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Songs of Three Great South Indian Saints (Oxford India Paperbacks)

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ISBN
9780195660517

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
019566051X
ISBN-13
9780195660517
eBay Product ID (ePID)
24038263543

Product Key Features

Book Title
Songs of Three Great South Indian Saints
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2002
Topic
General, Poetry
Genre
Literary Criticism
Author
William J. Jackson
Format
Uk-Trade Paper

Dimensions

Item Height
0.5 in
Item Weight
9.5 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in

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Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
"For the contemporary reader, these lyrics exude the freshness of a living language and connect the reader to an ancient movement that itself lived and breathed the language of the common people."--Religious Studies Review, "For the contemporary reader, these lyrics exude the freshness of a living language and connect the reader to an ancient movement that itself lived and breathed the language of the common people."-- Religious Studies Review
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
781.7/45
Synopsis
Jackson's new book looks at the life and songs of Annamacharya, Purandaradasa, and Kanakadasa. It provides biographical and critical essays on the singer-saints along with fresh translations of their songs, and general introduction, and an essay on Bhakti literature., Looking at the life and songs of Annamacharya, Purandaradasa, and Kanakadasa, this book contains biographical and critical essays on the singer-saints along with fresh translations of their songs. A general introduction and an essay on Bhakti literature put the songs in to their historical and literary context., This anthology provides a representative selection from the songs of three great singer-saints of sixteenth century southern India. William Jackson translates the songs of Annamacharya, Purandaradasa, and Kanakadasa in an English that is sometimes startlingly contemporary and colloquial, capturing the essence of bhakti as a movement that belonged to the people, and spoke the language of the streets. All three singer-saints lived during the peak of the Vijayanagara empire, around1500 AD, when southern India a renaissance of Hindu culture and the north experienced a wave of bhakti enthusiasm. Thay shared an intense, transformative devotion to Vishnu in various forms; in experiences imbued with drama, each of them found their calling, gave up their humdrum lives for an asceticone. Between them they were the acknowledged masters, even progenitors, of the love lyric, and Karnatic music. Jackson's illuminating essays on each of the singer-saints tells the story of their lives and the literature they originated. A general introduction and an essay on Bhakti literature put the songs into their historical and literary context., This anthology provides a representative selection from the songs of three great singer-saints of sixteenth century southern India. William Jackson translates the songs of Annamacharya, Purandaradasa, and Kanakadasa in an English that is sometimes startlingly contemporary and colloquial, capturing the essence of bhakti as a movement that belonged to the people, and spoke the language of the streets. All three singer-saints lived during the peak of the Vijayanagara empire, around 1500 AD, when southern India a renaissance of Hindu culture and the north experienced a wave of bhakti enthusiasm. Thay shared an intense, transformative devotion to Vishnu in various forms; in experiences imbued with drama, each of them found their calling, gave up their humdrum lives for an ascetic one. Between them they were the acknowledged masters, even progenitors, of the love lyric, and Karnatic music. Jackson's illuminating essays on each of the singer-saints tells the story of their lives and the literature they originated. A general introduction and an essay on Bhakti literature put the songs into their historical and literary context.

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