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A candid, funny and intellectually alive memoir by Wendy Doniger, widely regarded as the worlds greatest living mythologist, and a celebrated scholar of Hinduism and Sanskrit texts.Part memoir, part intellectual self-portrait, For the Love of Stories traces the making of one of the most original and subversive scholars of religion and mythology of our time.Wendy Doniger writes here not as an authority pronouncing from above, but as someone trying to understand the accidents, desires, friendships and silent rebellions that shaped a life spent among stories. She moves from Great Neck in New York to Harvard, Calcutta, Oxford, Moscow, Berkeley and Chicago; from ballet studios and Sanskrit classrooms to battles over censorship, womens equality and academic freedom. Along the way appear an astonishing and sometimes eccentric cast of figuresteachers, lovers, students, scholars, filmmakers, dogs and horsesrendered with wit and an often disarming candour.What emerges is the story of a celebrated academic career, but also a vivid account of a vanished intellectual worldcharacterized by the peculiar freedoms and prejudices of mid-century academia, the frequent and uneasy entanglement of scholarship and desireand the opening of Sanskrit and South Asian studies in the West to new questions and concerns. Doniger is especially good at recovering what this world felt like: the conversations, friendships, rivalries that formal accounts leave out, as well as the ways women managed to navigate institutions that rarely knew what to do with them.Whether she is writing about Hindu myths, old friends from the British aristocracy, or the disillusionment with Communism, Doniger returns always to the human need to make meaning through narrative. This restless memoir, full of both intellect and gossip, is a book about how a life is made from the stories one inherits, studies, and then retells.
Product Details
Author
Wendy Doniger
Publisher
Speaking Tiger
Number of Pages
384
Language
English
SKU
BK0543967
ISBN
9789363367203
Reading Age
All
Dimensions
21.6 x 14 x 3.2 cm
Binding
Hardback
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