Medieval Devotional Lyrics
Basavanna (1106-1167), Mahadeviyakka (12th c.), Vidyapati (14th c.), Govindadasa (15th c.), Chandidasa (16th c.); see also Mirabai (16th c.)

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FACULTY RESOURCES

Women's Literature

Sappho of Lesbos
Li Ch'ing Chao
Murasaki Shikibu
Sei Shonagon
Mirabai
Virginia Woolf

Chinese/Japanese Literature

Book of Songs
Confucius
Tao Ch'ien
Tang Poetry
The Manyoshu & The Kokinshu
The Tale of the Heike
Yoshida Kenko
Zeami Motokiyo
Higuchi Ichiyo
Wu Ch'eng-en
K'ung Shang-jen
Ts'ao Hsueh-Ch'in
Lu Xun
Ihara Saikaku
Matsuo Basho
Ueda Akinari
Tanizaki Junichiro
Kawabata Yasunari

Indian Literature

The Ramayana
The Mahabharata
The Bhagavad-Gita
The Kalidasa
Medieval Devotional Lyrics
Mahasweta Devi
Anita Desai
Rabindranath Tagore
Premchand

 

 

 

RECOMMENDED READING

  • Archer, W. G., The Loves of Krishna in Indian Painting and Poetry (1957)
  • Chandidasa, Love Songs of Chandidasa, trans. Deberi Bhattacharya (1967)
  • Dimock, C. Edward. and Denise Levertov, trans., In Praise of Krishna : Songs from the Bengali (1967) PK1771.E3 I5 1981
  • Hawley, John Stratton & Mark Juergensmeyer, ed. & trans., Songs of the Saints of India (1988) PK2141.E3 S66 1988
  • Hess, Linda & Shukdev Singh, The Bijak of Kabir (1986)
  • Jayadeva, Love Song of the Dark Lord : Jayadeva's Gitagovinda, trans. Barbara Stoller Miller (1977) PK3794.J3 G53 1977
  • Macnicol, Margaret, Poems by Indian Women (1923)
  • Ramanujan, A. K., Hymns for the Drowning (1981)
  • -----, Speaking of Siva (1973)
  • Tharu Susie & K. Lalitha, eds., Women Writing in India (1991)
  • Vidyapati, Love Songs of Vidyapati, trans. Deberi Bhattacharya (1963)

 

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