Nonfiction
Spring 2004
Self-Impersonation in World Literature
In Oscar Wilde’s play The Importance of Being Earnest, Jack, who has pretended for years to be named not Jack but Ernest, suddenly discovers who his true parents are and […]
Nonfiction
Winter 2003
The “Kamasutra”: It Isn’t All about Sex
The Kamasutra, which many people regard as the paradigmatic textbook for sex, the sex text, was composed in North India, probably in the third century C.E., in Sanskrit, the literary […]
Nonfiction
Winter 1997
When a Kiss Is Still a Kiss: Memories of the Mind and the Body in Ancient India and Hollywood
I. Sexual Memory in India Is the locus of memory the mind or the body? Most Americans assume that it is the mind, but other cultures are not so quick […]