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.
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
Three Men for Colverton
Author: David Cregan
Publisher: London : Methuen
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Publisher: London : Methuen
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Plays and Players
Author:
Publisher:
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Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 762
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 762
Book Description
Plays
Author: Jean Giraudoux
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The Kenyon Review
Author: John Crowe Ransom
Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 756
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
Plays
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description