Author: Wendy Doniger
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226156415
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Hindu and Greek mythologies teem with stories of women and men who are doubled. This text recounts and compares a range of these. The comparisons show that differences in gender are more significant than differences in culture.
Splitting the Difference
Author: Wendy Doniger
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226156415
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Hindu and Greek mythologies teem with stories of women and men who are doubled. This text recounts and compares a range of these. The comparisons show that differences in gender are more significant than differences in culture.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226156415
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Hindu and Greek mythologies teem with stories of women and men who are doubled. This text recounts and compares a range of these. The comparisons show that differences in gender are more significant than differences in culture.
Encyclopedia of Literary Translation Into English: A-L
Author: O. Classe
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9781884964367
Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages : 930
Book Description
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9781884964367
Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages : 930
Book Description
The Bedtrick
Author: Wendy Doniger
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226156443
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 631
Book Description
"Somehow I woke up one day and found myself in bed with a stranger." Meant literally or figuratively, this statement describes one of the best-known plots in world mythology and popular storytelling. In a tour that runs from Shakespeare to Hollywood and from Abraham Lincoln to Casanova, the erudite and irrepressible Wendy Doniger shows us the variety, danger, and allure of the "bedtrick," or what it means to wake up with a stranger. The Bedtrick brings together hundreds of stories from all over the world, from the earliest recorded Hindu and Hebrew texts to the latest item in the Weekly World News, to show the hilariously convoluted sexual scrapes that people manage to get themselves into and out of. Here you will find wives who accidentally commit adultery with their own husbands. You will read Lincoln's truly terrible poem about a bedtrick. You will learn that in Hong Kong the film The Crying Game was retitled Oh No! My Girlfriend Has a Penis. And that President Clinton was not the first man to be identified by an idiosyncratic organ. At the bottom of these wonderful stories, ancient myths, and historical anecdotes lie the dynamics of sex and gender, power and identity. Why can't people tell the difference in the dark? Can love always tell the difference between one lover and another? And what kind of truth does sex tell? Funny, sexy, and engaging, The Bedtrick is a masterful work of energetic storytelling and dazzling scholarship. Give it to your spouse and your lover.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226156443
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 631
Book Description
"Somehow I woke up one day and found myself in bed with a stranger." Meant literally or figuratively, this statement describes one of the best-known plots in world mythology and popular storytelling. In a tour that runs from Shakespeare to Hollywood and from Abraham Lincoln to Casanova, the erudite and irrepressible Wendy Doniger shows us the variety, danger, and allure of the "bedtrick," or what it means to wake up with a stranger. The Bedtrick brings together hundreds of stories from all over the world, from the earliest recorded Hindu and Hebrew texts to the latest item in the Weekly World News, to show the hilariously convoluted sexual scrapes that people manage to get themselves into and out of. Here you will find wives who accidentally commit adultery with their own husbands. You will read Lincoln's truly terrible poem about a bedtrick. You will learn that in Hong Kong the film The Crying Game was retitled Oh No! My Girlfriend Has a Penis. And that President Clinton was not the first man to be identified by an idiosyncratic organ. At the bottom of these wonderful stories, ancient myths, and historical anecdotes lie the dynamics of sex and gender, power and identity. Why can't people tell the difference in the dark? Can love always tell the difference between one lover and another? And what kind of truth does sex tell? Funny, sexy, and engaging, The Bedtrick is a masterful work of energetic storytelling and dazzling scholarship. Give it to your spouse and your lover.
Adult Catalog: Authors
Author: Los Angeles County Public Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The Romance Literatures: French literature
Author: George Bruner Parks
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
Playwrights on Playwriting
Author: Toby Cole
Publisher: Cooper Square Press
ISBN: 1461661226
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
For anyone interested in drama, Playwrights on Playwriting: From Ibsen to Ionesco offers revealing and astute insights on modern theater and the creation of plays. The book gathers the opinions and theories of the greatest names in the past 200 years of drama, among them Anton Chekhov, George Bernard Shaw, Federico Garcia Lorca, Eugene O'Neill, Bertolt Brecht, Tenessee Williams, Sean O'Casey, and Arthur Miller, to name a few. In the first part of the book, "Credos and Concepts," the playwrights offer their differing philosophies on the dynamics of theatrical performance and the changes in drama since Aristotle. In the second part, "Creations," the same dramatists look at specific plays of their own, commenting on their intended goals and the works' overall success. A unique and enlightening collection, Playwrights on Playwriting is an essential resource for the enthusiast of theater.
Publisher: Cooper Square Press
ISBN: 1461661226
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
For anyone interested in drama, Playwrights on Playwriting: From Ibsen to Ionesco offers revealing and astute insights on modern theater and the creation of plays. The book gathers the opinions and theories of the greatest names in the past 200 years of drama, among them Anton Chekhov, George Bernard Shaw, Federico Garcia Lorca, Eugene O'Neill, Bertolt Brecht, Tenessee Williams, Sean O'Casey, and Arthur Miller, to name a few. In the first part of the book, "Credos and Concepts," the playwrights offer their differing philosophies on the dynamics of theatrical performance and the changes in drama since Aristotle. In the second part, "Creations," the same dramatists look at specific plays of their own, commenting on their intended goals and the works' overall success. A unique and enlightening collection, Playwrights on Playwriting is an essential resource for the enthusiast of theater.
A Refined Look at Existence
Author: Rodney Milgate
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
At one level a simple story of revenge about a young pop singer who returns to his birthplace after seventeen years, in order to avenge his mother's murder. But it is also an ironical comedy drama, set in a country town in New South Wales, a modern reworking of Bacchae of Euripides in which Donny's hysterical fans destroy Penthouse, son of his hated Aunt Igave.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
At one level a simple story of revenge about a young pop singer who returns to his birthplace after seventeen years, in order to avenge his mother's murder. But it is also an ironical comedy drama, set in a country town in New South Wales, a modern reworking of Bacchae of Euripides in which Donny's hysterical fans destroy Penthouse, son of his hated Aunt Igave.
Catalog of Copyright Entries
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
New Theatre Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : College theater
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : College theater
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
National Union Catalog
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.