Splitting the Difference

Name: Splitting the Difference
Brand: The University of Chicago Press
SKU: 9780226156415
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Gender and Myth in Ancient Greece and India

Autor: Wendy Doniger

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Editura: The University of Chicago Press

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Hindu and Greek mythologies teem with stories of women and men who are doubled, who double themselve...

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Autor

Wendy Doniger

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Carte broșată

Publicat

1999

Pagini

383

EAN

9780226156415

ISBN

0226156419

Enbook ID

04544082

Editura

The University of Chicago Press

Greutate

614

Dimensiuni

153 x 226 x 23

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Hindu and Greek mythologies teem with stories of women and men who are doubled, who double themselves, who are seduced by gods doubling as mortals and whose bodies are split or divided. This text recounts and compares a vast range of these tales from ancient Greece and India, with occasional recourse to more recent "double features" from "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" to "Face/Off." Wendy Doniger argues that myth responds to the complexities of the human condition by multiplying or splitting its characters into unequal parts, and these sloughed and cloven selves animate mythology's prodigious plots of sexuality and mortality. Doniger's comparisons show that ultimately differences in gender are more significant than differences in culture; Greek and Indian stories of doubled women resemble each other more than they do tales of doubled men in the same culture. In casting Hindu and Greek mythologies as shadows of each other, Doniger shows that culture is sometimes but the shadow of gender.

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