Redeeming the Kamasutra

by Doniger, Wendy

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Title Statements

Full title :Redeeming the Kamasutra / Wendy Doniger.

Summary

"The Kamasutra, composed in the third century CE, is the world's most famous textbook of erotic love. There is nothing remotely like it even today, and for its time it was astonishingly sophisticated. Yet it is all but ignored as a serious work in its country of origin-sometimes taken as a matter of national shame rather than pride - and in the rest of the world it is a source of amused amazement and inspires magazine articles that offer "mattress-quaking sex styles" such as "the backstairs boogie" and "the spider web". In this scholarly and superbly readable book, one of the world's foremost authorities on ancient Indian texts seeks to restore the Kamasutra to its proper place in the Sanskrit canon, as a landmark of India's secular literature.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2016

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2016

The Physical Object

Description:182 Seiten

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780190499280, 0190499281
oclc:ocn967870307
LC Classification:PK2907.E7
Dewey Decimal:200.9

Subjects

Criticism, interpretation, etc Erotic literature, Sanskrit Erotic literature, Sanskrit -- History … Kāmasūtra (Vātsyāyana) LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Indic Littérature érotique sanscrite -- Histo… RELIGION / Hinduism / History Vātsyāyana