A Carnival of Parting: The Tales of King Bharthari and King Gopi Chand as Sung and Told by Madhu Natisar Nath of Ghatiyali, RajasthanUniversity of California Press, 2023年7月28日 - 392 頁 Madhu Natisar Nath is a Rajasthani farmer with no formal schooling. He is also a singer, a musician, and a storyteller. At the center of A Carnival of Parting are Madhu Nath's oral performances of two linked tales about the legendary Indian kings, Bharthari of Ujjain and Gopi Chand of Bengal. Both characters, while still in their prime, leave thrones and families to be initiated as yogis—a process rich in adventure and melodrama, one that offers unique insights into popular Hinduism's view of world renunciation. Ann Grodzins Gold presents these living oral epic traditions as flowing narratives, transmitting to Western readers the pleasures, moods, and interactive dimensions of a village bard's performance. Three introductory chapters and an interpretive afterword, together with an appendix on the bard's language by linguist David Magier, supply A Carnival of Parting with a full range of ethnographic, historical, and cultural backgrounds. Gold gives a frank and engaging portrayal of the bard Madhu Nath and her work with him. The tales are most profoundly concerned, Gold argues, with human rather than divine realities. In a compelling afterword, she highlights their thematic emphases on politics, love, and death. Madhu Nath's vital colloquial telling of Gopi Chand and Bharthari's stories depicts renunciation as inevitable and interpersonal attachments as doomed, yet celebrates human existence as a "carnival of parting." |
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第 viii 頁
... of Fate 328 Appendix 1 : The Language of the Bard , 335 by David Magier Appendix 2 : Proper Nouns Transliterated 351 References 355 Index 367 Illustrations 1. Madhu Nath plays the sārangi and sings Bharthari's viii Contents.
... of Fate 328 Appendix 1 : The Language of the Bard , 335 by David Magier Appendix 2 : Proper Nouns Transliterated 351 References 355 Index 367 Illustrations 1. Madhu Nath plays the sārangi and sings Bharthari's viii Contents.
第 ix 頁
... well in Thanvala , Nagaur district , Rajasthan yogi's garb begs for alms 8. Gopi Chand's queen faints as her husband in 9. Languages of Rajasthan IO II 12 18 19 50 59 67 340 Preface Madhu Natisar Nath , whose words in translation form ix.
... well in Thanvala , Nagaur district , Rajasthan yogi's garb begs for alms 8. Gopi Chand's queen faints as her husband in 9. Languages of Rajasthan IO II 12 18 19 50 59 67 340 Preface Madhu Natisar Nath , whose words in translation form ix.
第 xiii 頁
... language and culture -- parted very painfully from a husband who , as I perceived it , cared more for his spiritual aspirations than he did for me and our child . His aspirations could not have been more different from a yogi's ...
... language and culture -- parted very painfully from a husband who , as I perceived it , cared more for his spiritual aspirations than he did for me and our child . His aspirations could not have been more different from a yogi's ...
第 xv 頁
... language and music to be important aspects of Madhu Nath's performances but am myself neither linguist nor musician , I turned to specialists in treating these matters . One of the very few American experts in Rajasthani , David Magier ...
... language and music to be important aspects of Madhu Nath's performances but am myself neither linguist nor musician , I turned to specialists in treating these matters . One of the very few American experts in Rajasthani , David Magier ...
第 xvii 頁
... language . Very particular thanks go to Sandra King Mulholland , Frances Pritchett , and David White for close , critical , and kindly readings of the first three chapters in draft . Frannie went on to read the entire manuscript , in ...
... language . Very particular thanks go to Sandra King Mulholland , Frances Pritchett , and David White for close , critical , and kindly readings of the first three chapters in draft . Frannie went on to read the entire manuscript , in ...
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