| Autore |
Doniger Wendy
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| Edizione | [10th ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa |
Cary : , : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, , 2004
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| Descrizione fisica |
1 online resource (288 p.)
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| Disciplina |
809.9335
809.93353
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| Soggetto non controllato |
Self In Literature
Impersonation In Literature
Literary Criticism
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| ISBN |
0-19-028954-6
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| Formato |
Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione |
eng
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| Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: The Self-Impersonation of Mythology -- Pre- and Postmodern Narrative Recycling -- Chronology and Intertextuality -- The Möbius Strip and the Zen Diagram -- Chapter 1: The Mythology of Self-Impersonation -- Self-Impersonation -- Self-Impersonation by the Famous and the Literary -- Nature Imitating Art Imitating Nature -- Playing within the Play -- Virtual Reality -- Acting Out in Politics -- Ironic Tangos -- Chapter 2: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for His Wife -- The Marriage of Udayana -- Ratnavali, The Lady of the Jeweled Necklace -- Priyadarshika, The Woman Who Shows Her Love -- The Marriage of Figaro -- The Self-Replicating Wife -- Chapter 3: The Double Amnesia of Siegfried and Brünnhilde -- Thidreks Saga -- Völsunga Saga -- Nibelungenlied -- Ibsen's The Vikings at Helgeland -- Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung -- The Sword in the Bed -- Chapter 4: Resurrection and the Comedy of Remarriage -- True and False Accusations and Ordeals of Adultery -- Sita's Ordeal of Resurrection -- Resurrected Marriage in Shakespeare: The Winter's Tale -- The Self-Replicating Child -- Self-Replicating, Self-Sacrificing Mothers -- Resurrected Marriage in Hollywood -- My Favorite Wife(1940) -- The Comedy of Remarriage in Hollywood -- The Awful Truth (1937) -- The Lady Eve (1941) -- Chapter 5: Amnesia and the Tragedy of Remarriage -- The Comedy of Amnesiac Remarriage -- The Matrimonial Bed (1930) -- Remember? (1939) -- I Love You Again (1940) -- The Romance of Amnesiac Remarriage -- As You Desire Me (1932) -- Random Harvest (1942) -- Julia Misbehaves (1948), Memory of Love (1948),and Love Letters (1945) -- Chapter 6: Reincarnation -- Déjà Vu All Over Again -- The Man Who Forgot He Was God: The Monk's Dream -- The God Who Forgot He Was God: Chandrashekhara and Taravati -- The Romance of Reincarnation in India: The Two Lilas.
The Romance of Reincarnation in Hollywood and Bollywood -- Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941) -- The Reincarnation of Peter Proud (1975) and Chances Are (1989) -- Late for Dinner (1991) and Forever Young (1992) -- Madhumati (1958) and Karz (1980) -- Chapter 7: Face-Lifts -- The Aging Wife -- Face-Lifts: The Myths -- Face-Lifts: The Films -- Return from the Ashes (1965) -- Ash Wednesday (1973) -- Face of a Stranger (1979) -- Shattered (1991) -- A Face to Die For (1996) -- Face/Off (1997) -- Satyam Shivam Sundaram (1978) -- Face-Lifts: The Surgery -- Chapter 8: Mind Lifts -- Murder: Vertigo (1958) -- Black Science: Duplicates (1992) and Dark City (1998) -- Espionage: Total Recall (1990) (and True Lies [1994]) -- Masquerading in the Red and the Noir -- Chapter 9: Passing: Race and Gender -- Black as White as Black -- Women Masquerading as Men as Women: Chudala -- The Stage as World: Call Me Rosalind -- The World as Stage: Beaumarchais and the Chevalier d'Eon -- Women Masquerading as Women, Men as Men -- Conclusion: The Zen Diagram of the Self -- The Truth beneath the Mask -- Appointment in Samsara -- Loopholes -- 1. The Rabbi from Cracow -- 2. Second Naïveté -- 3. The Happy Hypocrite -- 4. The Deep Surface -- 5. The Authentic Postmodern Copy -- 6. The Multiplicity of Masks -- 7. Tautological Self-Coincidence -- 8. Hiding in Plain Sight -- The Analyst from Cracow -- The Recursive Cunning of the Unconscious -- The Möbius Strip Tease of the Self -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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The Woman Who Pretended to Be Who She Was : Myths of Self-Imitation
