Tales of Love, Sex and Danger
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Product details:
- Edition number 2
- Publisher OUP India
- Date of Publication 10 November 2011
- ISBN 9780198072560
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages272 pages
- Size 216x140x14 mm
- Weight 232 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This book discusses the complexities of love and the nature of erotic passion as these appear in the great love stories of the world. Revised and updated, this new edition, published after a gap of 25 years, includes an Epilogue which re-evaluates the authors' assertions about romantic and erotic love in the context of contemporary psychoanalysis and modern literary theory.
MoreLong description:
This book discusses the complexities of love and the nature of erotic passion as these appear in the great love stories of the world. Starting with the story of Romeo and Juliet and its roots in European Christianity, the authors uncover hidden depths of cultural and universal significance in famous romantic tales of the Middle East and the Indian Subcontinent-'Layla and Majnun', 'Heer and Ranjha', 'Sohni and Mahinwal', 'Vis and Ramin', and 'Radha and Krishna'. Moving westward again, Kakar and Ross look at the Greek myth of Oedipus, the Celtic saga of Tristan and Isolde, the tragic drama of Hamlet, the legend of Phaedra and Hippolytus, and a contemporary handling of the love theme in the writings of Vladimir Nabokov. This new edition, published after 25 years of the first edition, includes an Epilogue which re-evaluates the authors' assertions about romantic and erotic love in the context of contemporary psychoanalysis and modern literary theory.
MoreTable of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I PURE CULTURES OF LOVE
The Amorous Death of Romeo and Juliet
Love in the Middle Eastern World: Layla and Majnun-The Tale of Sohni and Mahinwal / The Story of Heer and Ranjha / Love and Madness
The Cloistered Passion of Radha and Krishna
Part II EROS ADULTERATED
Kings and Cuckolds: Passion as Power-King Moubad, Vis and Ramin / Power and Love in India / A Return to Oedipus the King
The Conscience of the King-Tristan and Isolde / Hamlet
Mother Love: When Desire becomes Reality-Phaedra / An Indian Interlude
Part II I LOVE THEORY AND LOVE STORY
The Phenomenology of Passionate Love-Passionate Love: Desire and Longing
The Ontogeny of Love
Epilogue 25 Years Later
Notes
