Book
New York : Oxford University Press
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© 2016
ISBN:
9780190499280
Language:
English
Pages:
182 Seiten
DDC:
891.2093538
Keywords:
Vātsyāyana
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Vātsyāyana
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Erotic literature, Sanskrit History and criticism
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RELIGION / Hinduism / History
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LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Indic
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Vātsyāyana Kamasutra
Abstract:
"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.
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