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Foucault and the Kamasutra : the courtesan, the dandy, and the birth of ars erotica as theater in India
- Title
- Foucault and the Kamasutra : the courtesan, the dandy, and the birth of ars erotica as theater in India / Sanjay K. Gautam.
- Author
- Gautam, Sanjay K. (Sanjay Kumar)
- Publication
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.
- ©2016
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 282 pages; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Kāmasūtra (Vātsyāyana)
- Courtesans in literature
- Nāṭyaśāstra (Bharata Muni)
- India
- Bharata Muni > Nāṭyaśāstra
- Aesthetics, Indic
- Pleasure > Philosophy
- Sex > India > History
- Theater > Influence
- Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984
- Sex > Philosophy
- History
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Dandies in literature
- Vātsyāyana > Kāmasūtra
- Erotic literature, Indic > History and criticism
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-271) and index.
- Contents
- Foucault and the notion of ars erotica: pleasure as desubjectivation -- Pleasure and patriarchy: the discourse of dharma and the figure of the wife -- The courtesan and the birth of ars erotica as theater -- The courtesan and the origins of the Nāṭyaśāstra: from ars erotica to ars theatrica -- The dandy-guru and the birth of the discourses of erotics and theater -- The city dandy and the vision of the city based on art -- Foucault and the Kāmasūtra: parting ways.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-9199
- ISBN
- 9780226348308
- 022634830X
- 9780226348445
- 022634844X
- LCCN
- 2015038333
- OCLC
- 923665733
- Author
- Gautam, Sanjay K. (Sanjay Kumar), author.
- Title
- Foucault and the Kamasutra : the courtesan, the dandy, and the birth of ars erotica as theater in India / Sanjay K. Gautam.
- Publisher
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.
- Copyright Date
- ©2016
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-271) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-9199