Shared Typologies of Kamaastra, Alaa?...karaastra and Literary Criticism

Issue Title: Special on Rethinking the History of the Kama World in Early India This paper brings kamaastra into conversation with poetics (alaá¹...karaastra) and modes of literary criticism associated with Sanskrit literature (kavya). It shows how historical intersections between kavya, kamaastra,...

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Published in:Journal of Indian philosophy 2011-02, Vol.39 (1), p.101
Main Author: Patel, Deven M
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
20th century
Ancient languages
Conversation
Criticism
History
Indian literature
Literary criticism
Literature
Poetics
Poetry
Poets
Sanskrit
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Summary:Issue Title: Special on Rethinking the History of the Kama World in Early India This paper brings kamaastra into conversation with poetics (alaá¹...karaastra) and modes of literary criticism associated with Sanskrit literature (kavya). It shows how historical intersections between kavya, kamaastra, and alaá¹...karaastra have produced insightful cross-domain typologies to understand the nature and value of canonical works of Sanskrit literature. In addition to exploring kamaastra typologies broadly as conceptual models and analytical categories useful in literary-critical contexts, this paper takes up a specific formulation from the kamaastra (the padmini-citriá¹[double dagger]i-aá¹...khini-hastini type-casting of females) used by a twentieth century literary critic to frame the relationships between canonical poets of Sanskrit literature.[PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
ISSN:0022-1791
1573-0395
DOI:10.1007/s10781-010-9119-3