Książka Splitting the Difference Wendy Doniger

Splitting the Difference

Gender and Myth in Ancient Greece and India

Autor: Wendy Doniger
Język: Angielski
Oprawa: Miękka
Dostępność: Dostępna u dostawcy
Wysyłamy za 9-15 dni
178.77
Hindu and Greek mythologies teem with stories of women and men who are doubled, who double themselve...

Informacje o książce

Język
Angielski
Oprawa
Książka - Miękka
Data wydania
1999
strony
383
EAN
9780226156415
ISBN
0226156419
Enbook ID
04544082
Waga
614
Wymiary
153 x 226 x 23

Pełny opis

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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