- Category: Books » Religion & Spirituality » Comparative Religion
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- Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr
- ISBN: 0226156419
- WAPI (Tower ID): 100954312
- Release Date: April 15, 1999
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- Tower.com Sales Rank: #527824 in Books (See Top 100 Books Bestsellers)
- #38769 in Religion & Spirituality (See Top 100 Religion & Spirituality Bestsellers)
- #571 in Comparative Religion (See Top 100 Comparative Religion Bestsellers)
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Product DescriptionMore Books by Wendy Doniger (Author)Run a Quick Search on "Splitting the Difference" by Wendy Doniger to Browse Related Products:Browse more products related to "Splitting the Difference"Browse more products related to "Wendy Doniger"Review"The fascinating stories Doniger tells are bracing to read, energetically written. She has an enviably wide range of knowledge about India and Greece and modern art forms..." Publisher's noteHindu and Greek mythologies teem with stories of women and men who are doubled, who double themselves, who are seduced by gods doubling as mortals, whose bodies are split or divided. In SPLITTING THE DIFFERENCE, the renowned scholar of mythology Wendy Doniger 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. Myth, Doniger argues, 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. If You Enjoy "Splitting the Difference (Paperback)", May We Also Recommend:
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