Three bhakti voices: Mirabai, Surdas, and Kabir in their time and ours/
Hawley, John Stratton
Three bhakti voices: Mirabai, Surdas, and Kabir in their time and ours/ John Stratton Hawley - New Delhi : Oxford University Press , c2005. - xxvii,439p. : ill. ; 22cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-416) and index.
The Bhakti Poet-Saint
1. Author and authority --
2. Morality beyond morality --
3. The nirgun/Sagun distinction
Mirabai
4. Mirabai in manuscript -- 5. Mirabai as wife and yogi -- 6. The Saints Subded in Amar Chitra Katha -- 7. Krishna and gender of longing -- 8. Last seen with Akbar -- 9. The early Sursagar and the growth of the Sur tradition -- 10. The verbal icon-how literal? -- 11. Sur's Sudama -- 12. Creative enumeration in Sur's Vinaya poetry -- 13. Why Surdas went blind
Kabir
14. The received Kabir: beginnings to Bly -- 15. Kabir in his oldest dated manuscript -- 16. Vinaya crossovers: Kabir and Sur -- 17. Bhakti, democracy, and the study of religion
9780198085393 (pbk.)
Religious poetry, Hindi--History and criticism.
Bhakti in literature.
891.4312 / HAW/T
Three bhakti voices: Mirabai, Surdas, and Kabir in their time and ours/ John Stratton Hawley - New Delhi : Oxford University Press , c2005. - xxvii,439p. : ill. ; 22cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-416) and index.
The Bhakti Poet-Saint
1. Author and authority --
2. Morality beyond morality --
3. The nirgun/Sagun distinction
Mirabai
4. Mirabai in manuscript -- 5. Mirabai as wife and yogi -- 6. The Saints Subded in Amar Chitra Katha -- 7. Krishna and gender of longing -- 8. Last seen with Akbar -- 9. The early Sursagar and the growth of the Sur tradition -- 10. The verbal icon-how literal? -- 11. Sur's Sudama -- 12. Creative enumeration in Sur's Vinaya poetry -- 13. Why Surdas went blind
Kabir
14. The received Kabir: beginnings to Bly -- 15. Kabir in his oldest dated manuscript -- 16. Vinaya crossovers: Kabir and Sur -- 17. Bhakti, democracy, and the study of religion
9780198085393 (pbk.)
Religious poetry, Hindi--History and criticism.
Bhakti in literature.
891.4312 / HAW/T